Sentences with phrase «report by a charter»

Oversight depends heavily on self - reporting by charter schools or by whistleblowers.

Oversight depends heavily on self - reporting by charter schools or the reports of whistleblowers.

Not exact matches

Charter Communications (CHTR), one of the largest U.S. cable companies, will file for bankruptcy protection by April 1, as part of a resturcuting to cut its debt by $ 8 billion, the WSJ reports.

The Principles were developed by the independent Best Practice Principles Group (BPPG), made up of the charter signatories, including Glass Lewis, based on recommendations from ESMA, which were outlined in its 2013 Final Report regarding the role of the proxy advisory industry.

In a recent staff report, U.S. Senators said Time Warner Cable, which was bought by Charter Communications, Inc. - Class A (NASDAQ: CHTR) for $ 79 billion, overbilled customers nationwide an estimated $ 639,948 between January and April 2016, and the number is expected to touch $ 1.91 million in 2016...

Shares of Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) were trading higher by around 5 percent Thursday morning following reports that the company is in talks with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) over a business combination.

Cuomo's preliminary budget allocates $ 300 million less for the NYC Department of Education than was expected, according to a new report, and Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter school lease compensation by $ 86 million.

Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self - defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

The Riverdale Country bill was recently reported out of the Senate Committee on Authorities, Corporations and Commissions, headed by Bill Perkins (D - Manhattan), a charter - school basher.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Should the County Executive, his or her appointed Director of Budget and Management, or anyone fail to provide information including but not limited to the budget reports requested in subsection (f) above, the chair of the Commission shall notify the clerk of the Erie County Legislature and the chair of the Erie County Legislature, in writing, and the Chair of the Legislature shall compel that such information be provided to the Commission by exercising the powers available to the Legislature, in particular those powers to subpoena and require the production of evidence as outlined in article 2, section 202, paragraph h of Local Law No.1 - 1959, as amended, constituting the Erie County Charter.

It reiterates claims made in a report by Antonacci earlier this month that the raises violate the New York State Constitution and the Onondaga County Charter.

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Most of New York City's charter schools have disciplinary codes that do not meet either state or federal requirements, according to a report by a children's advocacy organization that is to be released today.

After a video of a charter school teacher angrily scolded a student was reported by The New York Times, Success Academy leader Eva Moskowitz blasted the paper and defended the incident as an «anomaly.»

In 2004 the International Court of Justice approved this doctrine when it confirmed that the prohibition of simultaneous action in Articles 11 and 12 of the UN Charter had been superseded by practice (I.C.J. Reports 2004, p. 136, at paragraphs 27 - 28).

As reported last week by Investigative Post, accreditation by outside evaluators is a long - ignored requirement of the City Charter.

Rather than needle the mayor by demanding reports or his attendance at hearings, as Republicans did in previous years, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, attached a different condition to mayoral control: actions favoring charter schools.

Building on a New York Post report from August, the coalition noted 45 applications for new charter school co-locations were rejected by the city.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

He was also helped by StudentsFirstNY, a charter school supporter who invested heavily in Senate Republicans in 2014 and has reported spending $ 1.49 million on the race in the past two weeks, $ 250,000 of which came from a group backing education tax credits.

Among other things, she cites a lack of the quarterly reports required by charter.

Margate police were called to the Ascend Academy Charter High School on 5251 Coconut Creek Parkway by reports of a disturbance, said Sgt. Lori Eller, police spokeswoman.

The unions have been joined by several groups supportive of issues they've opposed, such as expansion of charter schools and a tax credit that would redirect money to private schools, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of lobbying reports submitted to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and campaign finance disclosure reports submitted by state - level candidates and parties to the Board of Elections.

«We know that hammerheads are the third most common shark reported by Florida recreational fishing charter boats, and great hammerheads specifically are considered one of the most attractive species to catch by clients» he added.

The New York Times reports that Denmark has revamped the Danish Fashion Ethical Charter, a four - page document written by the Danish Fashion Institute, Danish Fashion and Textile, the Danish textile organization WEAR, the country's eight largest model agencies, the Danish Association Against Eating Disorders and Self - Harm, and Model Union Denmark.

Indeed, this is the stance that was taken by many charter advocates in the days following the report's release.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

According to a recent survey by the National Charter School Research Project, scarcity of facilities was listed first among all reported external barriers to growth of charter management organizations, mentioned in 89 percent of resCharter School Research Project, scarcity of facilities was listed first among all reported external barriers to growth of charter management organizations, mentioned in 89 percent of rescharter management organizations, mentioned in 89 percent of responses.

A few reports of obstructionist behavior by districts stand out and have been chronicled in these pages by Joe Williams («Games Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

The ways in which most think tanks and researchers rank charter school laws are flawed, and charter school ranking systems should be designed to evaluate how well schools measure up to the original mission of the movement, suggests a report by two researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

It's worth noting that the decline shown in the West Ward may be overstated because of the way New Jersey reports data on two of Newark's high - performing charter school networks (it provides these network results in a single record, rather than breaking them out campus by campus).

Fifty - six percent of the charter school students covered by this report attend 23 schools operated by CGOs; 19 percent attend 12 schools that are affiliated with CMOs; and 25 percent attend 7 schools run by EMOs.

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

In this new report, which was funded by the Joyce Foundation and released by Education Sector, the presidents of 30 local unions in six states speak candidly about their views on issues including reforming teacher pay, coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, new competition from charter schools, and the challenges of leading multiple generations of teachers who don't always see eye to eye.

Charter schools in Michigan are failing to use their freedom from state and local regulations to forge new directions in public education, according to a report released last week by Michigan State University.

The charter school movement and the push for universal preschool hold the potential to be «important partners» in improving education, but they generally operate on separate tracks with little cooperation or exchange of ideas, says a new report issued by a pro-charter group.

However, pilot schools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to the state.

In total, the states covered by the new report educate over 95 percent of charter students nationwide.

According to a report by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the school district, which funded the campus, has more control over student enrollment than the charter management organization does.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

In my own address to the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education this year, I reported that K - 12 online education options continue to expand, with students participating in site - based online labs, hybrid courses, and part - and full - time virtual options that are offered by a variety of providers including charter schools, districts, state supplemental programs, corporations, and colleges.

Neither sector has cause to brag about racial diversity, but it seems clear that the CRP report points its lens in the wrong direction by focusing on the failings of charter schools.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

But when it comes to evaluations of the nation's schools and assessments of charter schools, they report results that are strikingly similar — despite that Ednext is an online poll (executed by Knowledge Networks), while PDK is a telephone poll (conducted by Gallup).

The school started by Deborah Meier, current scourge of standardized tests, charters, accountability, and just about everything associated with Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein, who initiatiated the school report cards program?

Third, Maranto is not persuaded by the research cited in our report showing that charter schools have had only a limited competitive effect on other public schools.

California charter schools that are run by charter - management organizations, or CMOs, outperform other charter schools in the state, concludes a report by the Mountain View, Calif. - based EdSource, a California education research organization.