Sentences with phrase «pro-charter school candidates»

By getting involved in the elections, you can help increase voter turnout and help ensure we elect pro-charter school candidates who put kids first!

In addition they have provided massive amounts of campaign funds to Malloy and other pro-charter school candidates at the federal, state and local level in Connecticut.

As reported yesterday in, Charter School Political Action Committees target Connecticut legislative races, two new corporate funded political action committees (PACS) are have recently been created and are spending money to elect pro-charter school candidates and defeat public school advocates in races for the Connecticut General Assembly.

Not exact matches

A first time candidate for office, McGrath has benefited from an independent expenditure campaign supported by an education reform and pro-charter school organization, which has spent an additional $ 1.2 million knocking Kaminsky.

A candidate for a Manhattan State Senate is a former top lobbyist for ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the one - time executive director of the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY — but you wouldn't know it from his campaign literature.

ALBANY — After years as a pro-charter school operative, Democratic state Senate candidate Micah Lasher is adopting a more union - friendly attitude on education issues, vowing in his campaign literature to «ensure that charter schools have to play by the same rules.»

Alice Walton on July 7 gave a $ 500,000 donation to New Yorkers For a Balanced Albany, a pro-charter school PAC that has supported state Senate Republican candidates.

An pro-charter school group has spent $ 3.6 million on TV ads over the past three weeks attacking Mayor de Blasio — the amount candidates typically spend in three weeks of a heated mayoral primary, an insider with knowledge of the ad buy revealed Wednesday.

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.

In December, the coalition sent letters to 22 wealthy individuals — including Siart — who are some of the most active in funding pro-charter candidates and the charter industry in California, asking the recipients to sign a Statement of Support to invest in a strategy for traditional neighborhood schools, ensuring that all children have access to a truly high - quality education.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

The CCSA attempted to take control of the public school board by running four pro-charter candidates, Janine Moreno, Brenda Cayme, Armando Benavides, and Gino Borgioli.

Charter school leaders were in a panic; a memo circulated over the summer by one pro-charter group, Democrats for Education Reform, had identified Mr. de Blasio as the candidate least friendly to their cause.

We look for candidates who have a pro-charter track record, who have worked in charter schools, or who have expressed support for charter schools and our policy positions.

Two years ago, a trio of pro-charter activists created a political action committee called Great Public Schools that handed out some $ 20,000 to their candidates.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School Disschool board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.