Sentences with phrase «school advocates accused»

Teachers unions and traditional public school advocates accused him of not listening to them, of failing to slow down and assess what was and wasn't working as the state implemented the Common Core (which was first introduced by his predecessor).

Charter school advocates accuse district leaders of discriminating against them and their students; district officials...

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NYSUT and its labor allies are going nuclear over the Senate Democrats» push to pass a charter school bill today, accusing the majority of abandoning its principles to inoculate members against the millions of dollars pro-charter advocates have threatened to spend in the fall elections.

Charter school advocates pointed to their schools» impressive results - many outperform neighboring public schools - and lashed out at United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, who accused them of being «fixated» on raising the state cap.

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school — which The Post revealed as plagued by poor discipline and coverups — where a student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and schools chancellor Carmen Fariña have been accused by advocates and some elected officials of doing too little to integrate the city's schools, which a recent study found are the most segregated in the nation.

Public Advocate Letitia James is demanding the city «take real steps» to deal with a troubled Bronx middle school where one student accused the principal of shoving and harassing him.

One operated a charter school, and whenever Beck turned to him, he advocated for a return to the kind of classical education that America's founders would have received in the 18th century, and accused Common Core of trying to brainwash children with «progressivism.»

Public Advocates joined the American Civil Liberties Union in filing a complaint last year against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the giant district of «undermining» the LCFF by diverting $ 450 million in money for disadvantaged students in 2014 to cover special - education costs for students with disabilities.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, for example, this week accused the city of favoring one of Moskowitz's charters over the schools it shares space with.

Yet advocates who request these effective resources are accused of making excuses for bad schools.

The New Orleans Advocate: Jefferson schools superintendent Isaac Joseph accused of nepotism by School Board member Cedric Floyd, whom Joseph once called «a friend» http://bit.ly/29yRsys

Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.

Lewis then went further by accusing reformers of advocating for policies that supposedly «kill and disenfranchise children from schools across this nation».

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

(The Advocate, Monday, May 9, 2016 p. 1B) He also commented about «union - created deadlock where only ineffective and possibly abusive teachers would benefit,» pointing to the infamous «rubber rooms» associated with New York public schools — «temporary reassignment centers where union - represented teachers accused of misconduct or incompetency have been sent while they await rulings from independent arbitrators.»

Accusing choice schools of discrimination, two nonprofit groups advocating for students with disabilities — Disability Rights Wisconsin and the American Civil Liberties Union — filed a lawsuit against the state in 2011.

«ALEC has also been accused of promoting model policy that advocates for the teaching of «climate denial» in schools.

Democrats and gun control advocates accused Republicans and the National Rifle Association of using school safety to divert attention from what they see as the real issue: the proliferation of guns that have been used in mass shootings at concerts, in movie theaters, on college campuses, in churches and at workplaces, as well as at public schools.