Sentences with phrase «school advocacy group formed»

A Better Connecticut, the charter school advocacy group formed by the present and previous CEOs of ConnCAN, the charter school lobby group, has spent $ 50,708 so far in support of the endorsed slate of candidates for the Bridgeport Board of Education.

The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First, the charter school management company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

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A Connecticut - based advocacy group formed after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School held a rally Wednesday night in Newtown for the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Formed in 2011, the Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry advocacy group Families for Excellent School's fundraising has skyrocketed from $ 642,042 in 2011 to $ 1,000,053 in 2012 to $ 12,264,668 in 2013.

There is currently a perception, created by debate in the public media in Connecticut, that the executive branch of the state government, including the Governor's office, is forwarding plans for the creation of new Charter Schools with all deliberate speed, having formed strong working associations with Charter School advocacy groups.

Sacker is also the corporate education reform industry advocate who formed ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

The district's public school system plans to add three new dual - language programs this coming school year, and D.C. parents have formed an advocacy group to push for more.