Sentences with phrase «schools goes to charter schools»

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The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

When he purchased space on the charter flight he told school officials he was going to Salt Lake to sell his house and «your charter is $ 11 less than the regular fare.»

My children did their pre-years in a Montessori... and they'll go to a charter school next year.

At our old charter school we would be going back to school this week!

J.O. then finds one LAUSD school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a public charter school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the school kitchen and instead is assigned to work with a group of culinary students.

«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

It's unlikely the president is going to heed this call, no matter how big a premium his administration has put on charter schools.

«When the students from the city go to charter schools, all of their money goes with them,» Root said.

As charter school proponents go to Albany this week to plead their case, let's examine the realities behind their claims of stretched resources, unique student demand and stellar academic results.

The Assembly proposal would end supplemental charter tuition so that going forward, districts would no longer be required to make this payment to charter schools and the State would no longer be required to reimburse districts for such payment.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

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.

«However, despite the fact that 99 percent of this federal funding would go to traditional public schools, union leadership has tried to kill this education reform legislation because it increases the cap on public charter schools, which don't necessarily have to be unionized.»

«Every student, they count,» Mecozzi said, «but when I look at our budget and I realize how much money is going into charter schools, and a lot of the charter schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools, and a lot of the charter schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools narrative is that the Buffalo Public Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»Schools are not performing up to par, «Come here, join our schools.»schools.»»

The rules change allows for an increase in the number of required instructional hours for teachers who go through the charter school program to 160 hours, up from 30 hours.

The Senate GOP is going to pay dearly for its war on public schools and public school teachers and its love affair with charter schools and charter school campaign contributions.

The principal at a Brooklyn Success Academy charter school who created a «Got to Go» list of difficult students was sued by four parents last month.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

George Pataki enticed Assembly Democrats to go along with legalization of charter schools in return for a pay hike.

I'm going to explain why the focus has to be on what we're doing now, fixing the schools, because charters are, in large measure, addressing a crisis that is a crisis of traditional public education,» he told Politico's Mike Allen, at an event in Washington.

«This idea that we should close schools to open up charter schools I don't think is an accurate way to go,» Heastie said.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

«Our school system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in Broschool system is broken, we are not going to take it anymore,» said emcee Samantha Tweedy, principal of the Excellence boys Charter School in BroSchool in Brooklyn.

Mr. Avella, an eastern Queens lawmaker, historically opposed charter schools, once going so far as to propose legislation blocking the Bloomberg administration policy of co-locating them inside of public school buildings.

Currently, 24 charter schools could still be designated under the existing cap as it is, but Cuomo wants to go further with the alternative public schools.

Hoping to shift the focus away from controversy and onto academics, Success Academy Charter Schools intends to start posting its lesson plans online this summer, going so far as to specify what type of snail is the best for kindergartners» science experiments.

The legislative leaders and the governor made some progress yesterday, reportedly reaching a deal on education that adds $ 300 million in additional spending to the $ 807 million boost Cuomo proposed, spends $ 340 million on pre-K — most of which is going to NYC — and also hikes per - pupil state aid for charter schools, though they would have to agree to be audited by the state comptroller.

«Name the issue — charter schools, taxes, public housing, law enforcement, regulation of car - sharing services — and Cuomo has gone out of his way to step on de Blasio's plans and sometimes humiliate him.»

Despite Mr. de Blasio's «no way in hell» remark, the governor went on to enact a budget deal that barred the city from charging charter schools — Ms. Moskowitz's schools included.

«If you are going to be a Democrat and you believe in bread - and - butter Democratic issues like funding public schools, you should do that and not keep — you've got to fund the schools better and not keep siphoning off money for vouchers and charters,» Nixon said.

The Legislature had a lot of unused, scrap paper that was going to be recycled but after coordinating with Global Concepts Charter School, we found a new use for the paper.

Moskowitz accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of going back on his word to find space for seven new elementary charter schools in time for them to open in August.

The Senate bill has further changes, such as including donations made to charter schools and expanding the pool of available credits, capping it at $ 150 million for calendar year 2017, $ 225 million for 2018 and $ 300 million for 2019 going forward.

Tisch says she supports charters — going so far as to tell The Post in a recent interview that the schools have «no better advocate» than her.

Talk of vouchers and charter schools is not only going to destroy education for our children, it will cost jobs, Flynn said.

Steve Zimmerman, who leads a coalition of independent charter schools in New York City, said Loeb's remark «certainly isn't going to help the charter movement, which is already being tarnished by association with the current administration.»

But he's found some roadblocks, and has had to go a route he didn't expect at the outset: charter school.

White said she'd never voted for a Republican before, «but de Blasio is in with the D.O.E., and if that's what it's going to take to keep my son in a charter school, I have no trouble jumping to a Republican.»

Referring to lawsuits that would reverse approved charter co-locations, Merriman told reporters: «I have a simple question for [the mayor]: can he look every parent in the eye who expects to send their child to these schools in the fall and say to them, «The school that I will now force you to go to is going to be better than the school that I am taking away from you and is your choice.»»

All our kids deserve to be taught by teachers who have gone through a rigorous process, but the Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble meeting them.charter schools have trouble meeting them.schools have trouble meeting them.»

What's probably going to be a very long fight over the financing system for New York charter schools went into State Supreme Court Thursday.

One of them was he wasn't going to be able to fix the school system from the top down,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Cschool system from the top down,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School CSchool Center.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

The comments will go to the state Board of Regents for its review of the Truxton Academy Charter School application at its November meeting.

Most of the money from Tudor Jones, a hedge fund manager who's been supportive of charter schools, went to Cuomo or the state Democrats, but he also gave $ 2,500 to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

«They're just playing to Bloomberg and the charter - school crowd and they know the bill isn't going to pass the Assembly,» is how one leading Assembly member put it.

«We're not going to be in a situation where charter schools stop, not if I have anything to do with it,» Cuomo said.

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.