Sentences with phrase «people going to the charter school»

«It's supposed to give people going to the charter school a leg up on the people going to the public school.

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«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

«Charters create an opportunity for people, whether it's entrepreneurs or educators, to start schools from scratch and let those schools keep going if they deliver on the promise.

Our opposition is never going to believe that charter schooling is an effective reform, but I think there are a lot of people in the middle who either don't know what a charter school is or are misguided about what it is and how it functions.

I would challenge the NAACP and those persons with beliefs such as Randi Weingarten to look at how insinuating that charter school leaders and advocates are racist goes against what the movement stands for and has done.

... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.

While some incredible women are breaking through barriers and leading notable public school districts, charter management organizations and non-profits currently, our education sector still has a long way to go to ensure that ALL talented individuals (especially women and people of color) have access to positions and people of influence.

I go anywhere that people are willing to talk about what charter schools are doing to public education because of their lack of oversight.

If we're going to have a charter school that's set up by parents to serve a need in the community, that control should rest with the people who care about the community.»

Now for this piece — and I know this is going to make some people on both sides very angry — we're going to set aside whether or not charter schools are a good idea in principle.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recently went out of its way to disenfranchise minority youth, ratifying a resolution calling for a halt in the growth of charter schools.

Ms. WIlliams was responding to a comment Rubin made to a reporter: «people in abject poverty,» said Rubin, «don't have the bandwidth to even evaluate charter schools... It's just not going to be high on their list.»

So we said, let's change the law, let's go build a charter school, let's start something new and hopeful for people who shouldn't have to wait for a real opportunity.