Sentences with phrase «pro-charter school bill»

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NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

The union and its allies, he noted, pushed back against about a dozen pro-charter school proposals that state Senate Republicans made a concerted effort to include in the final budget bill.

That includes StudentsFirstNY and Families for Excellent Schools, two pro-charter groups that have been among Mayor Bill de Blasio's most relentless critics.

The ads — paid for by a «super PAC» set up by a pro-charter school group — depict Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, as a tax - happy, commuter - hating tyrant, shouting from a dystopian netherworld marked by the sound of smashing windows and the flash of electric sparks.

The Senate Republican majority wouldn't go along and instead pushed through three bills that extended mayoral control but tied it to other issues like pro-charter school provisions — something the Assembly Democrats opposed.

That's Bill DeLoache, the wealthy Nashville investor and charter proponent who has spent heavily in the past to help elect pro-charter candidates to the MNPS School Board.

Governor Andrew Cuomo just told a pro-charter rally that was protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio, «We will save charter schools.»

ConnCAN and 50CAN coincidently also serves on the Board of Directors of the NewSchools Venture Fund, while the TFA Board includes such notables as one of Connecticut's other billionaires, Stephen Mandel, who not only donated more than $ 50 million to Teach for America and serves as the Treasurer of the TFA Board but is also a major donor to Achievement First Inc., ConnCAN and Excel Bridgeport, the pro-charter lobby group that has been working with Mayor Bill Finch to divert Bridgeport's public funds to Achievement First, Inc. — Bridgeport and other charter schools in that city.

That includes StudentsFirstNY and Families for Excellent Schools, two pro-charter groups that have been among Mayor Bill de Blasio's most relentless critics.

On one side was the pro-charter school, pro-corporate education reform slate that was selected and endorsed by Mayor Bill Finch and his allies on the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee.

The final version of the North Carolina bill, while satisfying to charter - school advocates by ultimately allowing the creation of more schools, stripped away some pro-charter measures, including the legalization of online - based charter schools and a establishment of a state - level commission to approve charters.