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Silver and the Democratic - run Assembly now have to decide between low - income, mostly minority parents demanding charter schools as an option for their kids, and the teachers unions, their longtime allies, which are trying to rein in charters.

The mayor also predicted dire consequences if he loses his showdown with state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who wants to lift the cap on the number of privately run public schools in the city, now set at 23 new charters.

The Eva Moskowitz - run charter school planned to move two grades into the building Wadleigh now shares with two other schools — a move that is still in the works.

If Diana were to run for higher office and win, the county Legislature — now firmly in Republican hands — would appoint a successor to serve until an election could be held a year later, according to the county charter.

They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Derrell Bradford runs the group New York Campaign for Achievement Now, which advocates for the education tax credit, as well as lifting the state's cap on charter schools.

It's also not lost on observers that Education Reform Now, the group that has been running an ad campaign accusing the UFT of blocking a measure to lift the charter school cap and causing the state to lose out in the first round of «Race to the Top» cash, is being repped by KnickerbockerSKD — a firm that also works for Bloomberg.

Throughout the rally, Smikle's hovered at the edge of the crowd, smiling and shaking hands; a political consultant and adjunct Columbia professor, he is now a candidate for the State Senate, running against incumbent Democrat Bill Perkins, who has become the prime target of Harlem's charter - school backers.

Many companies which twenty years ago ran their own ships now charter vessels from third parties.

ESSA's flexibility coupled with the fact that some cities now have fewer than half their schools within the traditional district can enable state leaders to apply charter - style accountability to district - run schools.

There are now 15 such «district - charter collaboration compacts» in place, many of which promise to accelerate the development of «portfolio» school systems, with a mix of district - run and charter schools.

Shalvey, who is someone with credibility on both sides of the district - charter divide, now runs the Gates program.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgCharter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgcharter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

But few have gone as far as Indianapolis, where the district is now authorizing what it calls innovation network schools: districts schools that are run by outside contractors, with their own independent boards and full charter - style autonomy.

Overall charter school enrollment increased by approximately 225,000 students during the 2012 - 2013 school year and there are now more than 2.3 million students attending these independently run, innovative public schools.

In cities with thriving charter sectors, scores of self - organized nonprofits are now running schools.

Why do states now have the right to usurp local authority to open charters run by nonprofit and for - profit charter chains even if they aren't quality schools?

Now that the Trump administration has made school choice a cornerstone of its education policy, we thought it would be worth exploring how charter schools work, who runs them, how they're funded and whether they work better than the traditional public schools they're often competing against.

Draw it back from oblivion for just so long as needed: When a privately run charter school adopts the exact same measures public schools wanted but you rejected, now call it «innovation» and throw money at the charter.

But since 2006, the school has been run by Mastery Charter Schools, a nonprofit that now has four campuses in Philadelphia serving 2,100 students.

Eric Mahmoud has run the Harvest Network of charter schools for many years now.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

Mosaica Education, a national charter public school operator, ran the Muskegon County school district for two years, but made no progress in ending the cycle of debt and now is ending its contract with the district.

Ms. Moskowitz now runs Success Academy Charter Schools, a nonprofit group, which runs a number of charter schools and was seeking to open more and to expand existing sCharter Schools, a nonprofit group, which runs a number of charter schools and was seeking to open more and to expand existing scharter schools and was seeking to open more and to expand existing schools.

They educated most of us in this room, that we're now educated to run charter schools.

«It seemed like the reporting was all about charter schools versus traditional schools,» agrees Allison Holdorff, a Westside parent and advocate who ran against Melvoin in the primary and now works for him as a senior staffer.

Maine is now likely to be out of the running for this huge pot of stimulus funds for public education, and Maine's future taxes will go to the other states who are showing more innovation in improving their public schools using the charter school model.

There are some good charters perhaps, but many are now being run for - profit without fully qualified teachers.

With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years.

As of result of Vallas» work, most schools in New Orleans are now run by charter school management companies.

Rocketship now runs three K - 5 charter schools in San Jose that serve overwhelmingly low - income, immigrant students, and it hopes to partner with as many as 11 school districts in Northern California to open 20 charter schools in the Silicon Valley area by 2017.

Steve Perry and Capital Preparatory Schools, Inc. have now submitted two applications to create privately run, but publicly funded charter schools, one in Bridgeport, Connecticut and one in Harlem, New York.

Real Reform Now is run by William (Bill) Phillips who also runs the NE Charter School Network.

Uncommon Schools, Success Academy, Achievement First, Coney Island Prep, Williamsburg Charter High School, South Bronx Classical and Atmosphere Academy are just some of the charters — independently run schools free to make their own rules — in session right now.

Young people living in safe housing perform better in school and have better educational outcomes, said Fuller, a former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent who now runs a charter high school, Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, at N. 28th and W. Capitol Drive.

Right now the design elements of the schools we run are only possible, unfortunately, through charter public schools.

And now, in a surprising new development, so - called «independent charters» — freestanding schools not run by networked chains — have also begun to organize collectively.

In 2013, Tennessee created the Achievement School District to take over the state's worst - performing schools; the district now runs 27 Memphis schools, 20 of them charters.

Both are now run by ReNEW Schools, one of the most rapidly growing charter operators in the city.

Almost all New Orleans» public schools are now charters, which are run by independent nonprofit boards but publicly funded.

Teachers of color make up 27.6 percent of the charter school teaching population, compared with 16 percent within district schools.51 For example, Uncommon Schools — a charter school network in Boston, New Jersey, and New York — runs a competitive summer teaching fellowship that targets students of color in their junior year of college.52 Fifty - two fellowship alumni now teach in Uncommon classrooms.53

Over half of Vallas» schools are now charters, and most of them are outperforming traditionally - run schools in New Orleans.

When you ran for school board, you were in favor of charters — now you're against them.

Bloomberg's long - time chief adviser is now in charge of political strategy for the charter advocacy group called Families for Excellent Schools, the entity that is paying for the pro-charter school television ads that have been running in Connecticut and the group that organized the recent pro-charter school rally at the State Capital in Hartford... the one in which charter schools students and parents were bused in from as far away as New York and Boston.

Even a modicum of investigation on the part of Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education would have led to the denial of the Booker T. Washington Charter School, yet Rev. Morrison, who now has a lucrative five - year charter to run a private school with public funds has the audacity to claim that Connecticut's charter school application process is «grueling.Charter School, yet Rev. Morrison, who now has a lucrative five - year charter to run a private school with public funds has the audacity to claim that Connecticut's charter school application process is «grueling.charter to run a private school with public funds has the audacity to claim that Connecticut's charter school application process is «grueling.charter school application process is «grueling.»

One - time funding for safety - related equipment and expenses signed into law at the end of March is now available to public, voucher and privately run charter schools.

In turn, the Amistad effort spawned the creation of Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that now runs 20 charter schools in Connecticut and New York.

ConnCAN is the charter school advocacy lobby group that was created by the same donors who helped Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor; develop Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company that now runs schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

Charters and other privately run schools now serve nearly one of every seven Chicago public school students.