Sentences with phrase «own private charter»

Another option, JetSmarter, bills itself as the Uber of private jets, using a smartphone app to offer instant booking of private charters.

Trump's previous HHS Secretary, Tom Price, resigned in September following a scandal centering on his use of private chartered jets on the taxpayer dime.

Price used private charter flights on 10 trips with multiple segments, when in many cases cheaper commercial flights were available.

Publicly, Trump had said he was «not happy» with Price for repeatedly using private charter aircraft for official trips on the taxpayer's dime, when cheaper commercial flights would have done in many cases.

Yesterday, a private charter plane carried 149 Christian refugees from Kurdistan to Slovakia where they are receiving full asylum, made possible by a ton of donations totaling $ 12 million.

Floating silently at sunrise, a private charter or private group hot air balloon flight with A Grape Escape provides spectacular views of Temecula Valley Wine Country rolling hills, vineyards, farms, ranchlands, and citrus groves.

Floating silently at sunrise, a private charter or private group hot air balloon flight with A Grape Escape provides spectacular views of Temecula Valley

New York Cruise Lines also operates World Yacht, a luxury special events and private charter business, as well as The BEAST Speedboat summer time thrill ride.

In Summer 2017, Barbara partnered with fellow historic Boston brand, Boston Harbor Cruises, to elevate food and beverage options on the BHC private charter fleet as well as to reinvigorate menu offerings at other venues on the Harbor.

The pilot of a helicopter, a private charter hired for a photo shoot, that went down in New York City's East River is the sole survivor of the crash, after all five passengers died, authorities say.

The chopper, a 2013 model Eurocopter AS350, was a private charter commissioned for a photo shoot, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill told reporters.

This is not the time to abandon our public schools - by undermining and helping to destroy them with private charter schools.

«She didn't allow him an in - country right of appeal against his asylum refusal; at massive expense to tax payers she hired a private charter plane to remove Mr Muazu to Nigeria today - no other returnee was on the plane; for the out of hours injunction she instructed Queen's counsel to make submissions.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the latest member of Trump's Cabinet who has been caught flying on a private charter plane at taxpayer expense, reportedly taking a flight to Ohio, only a day before Tom Price resigned as health secretary for doing the same.

Hawkins had harsh criticisms for Cuomo's education agenda for shortchanging funding for public education, pushing high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter schools over public schools.

Why: The Buffalo Teachers Federation endorsed Howie Hawkins because he defends the right to education, calls for full funding for public schools and opposes the plans to turn Lafayette, Bennett, East and MLK into private charter schools, including giving these wealthy charters the public school buildings!

Eight private charter schools are filing suit in State Supreme Court against the New York State Public High School Athletic Association over requirements that make student athletes sit out a season after transferring.

«Over the years, a program that is similar to those employed in private charter schools has been implemented, but the results of this study can not be extrapolated to those schools because it is not clear that they have the same level of teachers prepared to implement the program,» the professor states.

Opponents to Question 2 have tended to focus on descriptions of private charter networks that dominate the sector in other states.This is not the case in Massachusetts, as for profit networks are not allowed to operate here.

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

Johnson forgets to mention that MPS schools were producing great results for students of color up until school vouchers and private charters started diverting money nearly 25 years ago in Milwaukee, the birthplace of a voucher district.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

Private charters and online schools.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

This privately - held company and nonprofit seems to have a talent for commingling the efforts of private charter interests and public oversight conduits that creates serious conflicts of interest, causing a California state whistleblowing attorney to be ``... opposed to such activities between public officials, private interests, and public charter schools.»

The ASD superintendent would be able to fire all teachers and staff and enter into five year contracts with private charter school management companies to handle the schools» operations, all in a bid to catapult low performing schools from the bottom five percent up into the top echelon of the state's high performing schools.

Martin said the growth of publicly funded private charter schools and private school vouchers is also an important issue because those programs divert critical tax money away from public schools, thereby increasing the challenges public schools face in meeting the growing needs of their diverse student bodies.

Henry specifically cited the achievement school district (ASD) model that Tennessee is using, which allows private charter school operators to take over public schools, fire the teachers and principals, and use their own school management approaches to try to bring students» academic proficiency rates up into the top quartile of the state's public schools.

Over $ 6 million in aid and grants to support student mental health services and bullying prevention in public schools and independently run private charters.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

The plan has resulted in upheaval for students and their families across the city with some schools closed, others turned over to private charter managers, and the introduction of a school choice system that has left many families with children at different schools and limited transportation options for getting their children there.

This financial malfeasance would not be possible in a traditional locally controlled public school accountable to a democratically elected school board, but it seems to happen all the time in the City's private charter school district.

They have contended that the Christie administration and Anderson have been too cozy with the private charter - school movement.

The breakdown should be clearer in your comparison of Private Charter / Public Schools.

You are absolutely correct, MG, and the private Charter Administrator subculture still needs to be scrutinized.

If Mickey Mouse turned up promising to turn two public schools into private charter schools, the corporate «reformers» would back him to the hilt, and they would be sending live «supporters» to any meeting at which Mickey Mouse spoke in favor of his proposal.

At least three of the charter schools will be using the taxpayer money to pay down debt on buildings that these private charter school companies own.

WBEZ.org: Bernie Sanders Says He Opposes Private Charter Schools.

Under the proposal, schools that receive an F for three consecutive years, or a combination of Ds and Fs with weak growth scores for five consecutive years, would be closed or turned over to a private charter management organization.

Public and private charter schools have emerged as a striking exception to the dismal system of U.S. public education that has performed so poorly on international assessments of student performance such as PISA and TIMMS.

Many of these concerns, as well as concerns that private charter school could initiate and / or influence parents» decisions, have been addressed with new regulations to the California law that better educate parents on their options, provide standards forms and prohibit inappropriate behavior from pro-charter school advocates.

Lets say Jeb Bush and his friends win this fight and turn all of our schools into private charters and private schools run by corporations.

«When you are looking at these private charters, you are looking at a different animal,» said Williams.

(Note: When students leave to private charter school districts such as the segregated Achievement First and Jumoke Academies, this does not help in fulfilling any State integration goals.

Since 2011, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have been scrutinizing this issue, and working to determine whether private charter teachers are «governmental» enough to participate in state plans.

Once the state takes over, public funds are then free to flow to private charter management organizations to run the schools.

24) New York: Private charter school company pumps $ 78,000 into state Senate races.

In addition, the movement to expand school choice through the spread of private charters, which include schools run on the high - intensity no - excuses model, has some powerful detractors, especially on the left.

You will not be seeing any private charters in Georgia because there is no such thing as a «private» charter.