Sentences with phrase «say over the charter»

Local taxpayers have no say over charter school costs, which are deducted from a public school district's Chapter 70 state education aid, based on the number of students attending charter schools.

The host district has no say over the charter schools located within its borders.

When asked why the charters held lotteries for seats before they were even approved, SDE again abdicated responsibility, claiming SDE has no say over charter lotteries.

Not exact matches

«We used a very, very sophisticated management strategy: You throw shit over the side till the boat floats,» says Yager, now national leader of oilfield services at MNP, a chartered accountancy and business consulting firm.

«This does bring a sense of urgency to getting this done over the next month with the speaker leaving,» said Representative Stephen Fincher, who has led House Republican efforts to renew the export credit agency's charter, which expired nearly three months ago.

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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical on Thursday of an effort being pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have the state take over low - performing public schools, saying it could potentially lead to them becoming charter schools.

State Senate Democrats are accusing Julie Killian, the newly minted Republican choice in an upcoming key Westchester County state Senate race, as a «no - show» politician, saying she missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80percent of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

Thus the new budget manipulates future aid formulas in a way that one advocate says will cost city charters some $ 1.7 billion over the next several years.

A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.

Those briefed on the plan say that per pupil funding for the charter schools will jump by $ 1,100 over three years, including $ 250 per student in year one, $ 350 in year 2 and $ 500 in year 3.

At Success Academy, the charter school network in New York City, current and former educators say the quest for high scores drives some of them over the line.

But former D.O.E. administrators and education experts say there's no question that the mayor's authority over charters has been partially absorbed by the state, leaving de Blasio's (and future mayors») hands tied when it comes to charter - related policy decisions that could shape his education agenda.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

Mayor de Blasio has agreed to do more to help charter schools open or expand as part of the Albany deal that extended his authority over city schools, sources said Thursday.

De Blasio also said Thursday night that greater equity between «good» and «bad» public schools would mean parents wouldn't have to choose privately run charter schools over traditional schools.

Duncan, who supports charters, said he believes they can be part of any compromise over mayoral control.

«There are over 100,000 kids in charter schools, over 40,000 on waiting lists, which tells me that there is a crying need on behalf of parents to make sure there kids get a good education,» Flanagan said.

She has referred to the battle over charter co-locations into district schools, which critics say siphon away needed resources from district students, as a «Middle East war.»

Cuomo drew some praise later in the show from former governor George Pataki, who criticized de Blasio's charter decision, saying, «it's just terrible now to see the mayor looking to roll back the progress we've made over a decade.»

Sources said the issue is personal to Silver, who was infuriated when city officials, over his objections, sought to put the Ross Global charter school in a public - school building in his Lower East Side district.

«Perkins is definitely siding with the teachers union over the parents and children... It's a sorry state of affairs,» said Karl Willingham, whose son, Micah, 8, attends the Harlem Success Academy II charter school.

A Cuomo spokesman did not offer a comment on the status of the talks, but lawmakers said things were tied up over the same issues as last week: raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, reviving the 421 - a housing subsidy program and figuring out how much money to give public and charter schools.

Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.

Other charter leaders and advocates who attended the rally said privately that they thought that Tuesday could not have gone better for them optically, but offered only generalized press release - type language on the record, to avoid seeming like they were gloating over a rally that overshadowed the mayor's.

The Success Academy charter school network has refused to sign mandatory contracts granting the city Department of Education oversight over its pre-kindergarten program, deputy mayor Richard Buery said Thursday, signaling the latest showdown between the charter network and Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration.

Massey said there are 163,000 students on charter - school waiting lists and criticized de Blasio for pushing policies that favor the unionized workforce over kids.

City Hall has largely demurred when facing Moskowitz in the past — ever since losing a high - profile fight with her and the network in the spring of 2014 over charter school space — with officials saying they wanted to avoid unnecessary conflict.

«We've noticed that many charter schools open in areas where there's a concern over performance of district schools,» Reilly said.

It would cost the state just over $ 100 million to fund 256 charter schools statewide at an equal level, said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School charter schools statewide at an equal level, said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Charter School Center.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

Clinton and de Blasio, who have a longstanding relationship dating back to the mayor's tenure working at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s, touched on the charter debate during a broader conversation over education issues, the sources said.

«It's a federally chartered bank that has nothing to do with the banking committee,» Farley said, noting his holdings have grown over years by reinvesting dividends.

The unions say the changes could cost city public schools over $ 183 million from increased charter tuition and payments for charter personnel and over $ 88 million for the increase in rental assistance.

On education, Gallagher said he is «torn» over the issue of charter schools.

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

Both Holmquist and Jordan said the comptroller's office is so badly underfunded that the county could be open to litigation over its failure to maintain it, as required by the charter.

Senate Dems say Julie Killian missed over half the meetings and skipped over 80 % of the votes taken while she was an appointed member of the Westchester County Charter Commission.

«Someone could just go over with a net, catch a shitload of these fish and screw me out of the tuna fishery,» says council member John McMurray, who owns a charter fishing business in New York.

School choice supporters are split over the program's strict accountability provisions, however, which some say represent over-regulation by the state but which others claim are on par with the expectations for traditional public and charter schools.

But they're onto one decent idea: allowing charter schools more say over who attends them, thereby helping them to specialize in more of the niches that parents favor.

When we talk to school providers there, they say they can still get charters authorized but the politics of district finance, combined with the saturation effect of having so many charter operators fighting over the same buildings, kids, and talent, are forcing them to look to other communities.

Competition between schools is so fierce that charter schools in the same charter network say they sometimes fight over students.

During the negotiations, the DPS interim emergency manager said, «It will be more challenging for DPS to succeed without some kind of control over the opening of new charter schools or other kinds of educational opportunities.»

After NACA started showing initial results with students and our community partners, the discussion over how to expand the reach of our best practices began,» Bobroff says of the tuition - free public charter school that uniquely blends Native American traditions with college preparatory education.

While it is too soon to say whether they are effective over time or at scale, these diverse charter schools are revealing themselves to be popular, controversial, and — not surprisingly — complicated to operate.

«The district gets to use our money for a while [before eventually reconciling the accounts and spreading back - payments over several months] and we go into debt,» a Toledo charter leader said.

The percentage of those surveyed who say they «neither support nor oppose» charters declined 5 percentage points (from 23 % to 18 %) over the past year.

When the dust settled, some said that the teachers had won the battle over teacher evaluations, while others pointed out that they had lost the effort to cap the growth of charter schools.