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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reiterated its opposition to charter schools Saturday when its board of directors ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter school expansion until more oversight is established.

The NAACP, for example, has called for a moratorium on charter school expansion until, among other things, charters «are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools.»

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«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.

With all this evidence apparently stacked against charter schools, it seems downright responsible of the AFT to call for a moratorium on further charter school expansion «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness and viability is presented.»

This required a rapid expansion and reorganisation of the teaching facilities as an interim measure until the Farnborough site is redeveloped under the Building Schools for the Future initiative.

The Education Law Center appealed the school expansion decisions last spring but due to procedural delays did not file the initial brief until this month.

Even before a single dime was disbursed from the «Race to the Top» fund, we saw state legislatures take actions to support things like charter school expansion: Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Rhode Island were not exactly lining up to help charter schools until Duncan made clear that it would impact these states» applications for federal funding.

The State Board of Education, the State Department of Education and the Hartford Board of Education should place a moratorium on any charter school expansion in Hartford until an independent analysis of Achievement First — Hartford's policies and practices can be examined.

Evers earlier this year praised Walker's budget proposal, but until now the two have been at odds over how much money the state and property taxpayers should send to schools, the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers and on Walker's signature piece of legislation known as Act 10, which nearly eliminated collective bargaining for public school teachers and resulted in massive membership losses for the state's largest teachers union, which has heavily backed Evers.

After all, Obama has until recently made a compelling case thanks to efforts such as Race to the Top, which has managed to force states to lift or modify restrictions on the expansion of charter schools, and allow for the use of student test score growth data in teacher evaluations.

The NAACP National Board of Directors created the Task Force on Quality Education following its October 2016 ratification of a resolution issuing a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools — at least until certain standards of quality and accountability are met.

The planned renovation and expansion of Audubon's Broadway campus was postponed «until further notice» Wednesday, the Orleans Parish School Board said after failing to reach an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Quality on how to to make a temporary campus proposed for Annuniciation Street safe from the high levels of lead in the soil there.

Last year, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until problems with accountability and the loss of funding from traditional public schools are addressed.

«We are calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the charter schools at least until such time as: (1) Charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools; (2) public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school systems; (3) charter schools cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate and; (4) cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.»

Connecticut's public policy has been to hold off on the expansion of charter schools until a comprehensive education reform plan is developed and adopted.

«The moratorium calls for a halt in expansion, not closure, until assessment can be done of the entire school system.

Until recently, the race largely amounted to criticism from two of Evers» opponents of his record as state superintendent — focusing on the state's low ranking in reading skills among elementary students and Evers» support of the Common Core State Standards and opposition to the expansion of private voucher schools.

The NAACP, the nation's oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization, has adopted a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charter schools until concerns identified in its resolution are addressed.

A number of news outlets reported that federal lawmakers are investigating the details of Ohio's $ 71 million charter expansion application because State Superintendent Richard Ross apparently waited until the application was submitted before addressing evidence of charter - school score scrubbing.