Sentences with phrase «seeks city charter»

Paul Bray at the Bray Papers has vision and the Albany Civic Agenda seeks city charter reform.

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Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Though prior instant runoff proposals originating in the City Council have failed, the group of electeds and advocates sought to seize on an opportunity presented by the mayor's creation of the Charter Revision Commission.

She commands the largest and most influential charter school network in the city and openly flirts with challenging Mr. de Blasio when he will seek re-election in 2017.

Unlike his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, de Blasio has sought to limit charter school growth in the city.

The 12 - month extension, which was coupled with a strengthening of charter schools in the city and statewide through keeping their numbers in an available pool, was agreed to after the mayor sought a permanent program.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan in a statement Sunday said he would not support a «long - term» extension of mayoral control of New York City schools without a provision that also seeks to expand charter school growth in New York.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in an interview on NY1 Thursday said he would continue to seek a three - year extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, along with a proposal to strengthen and expand charter schools in the state.

Last year, Mr. Cuomo denied Mr. de Blasio the tax hike he sought to fund his universal prekindergarten initiative and later rammed through a law that guaranteed new charter schools free space in New York City, punishing the anti-charter teachers» union and the mayor, who was always a charter critic.

For the third time, de Blasio, who has sought long - term extensions of his control of city schools, is facing hostility from Senate Republicans who have attached poison pills to the extension — namely, the raising of the cap on charter schools in the city.

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.

De Blasio is also seeking to replicate city schools chancellor Carmen Fariña's Learning Partners program to encourage inter-district collaboration for charter and district schools.

New court papers filed by the plaintiffs in the state Appellate Division also seek to force the city to charge rent to all charter schools currently given free space in city public school buildings.

If she wanted to do that, she said, she could have selected a company without seeking bids, which the city charter allows.

Unwilling to «Man Up» and Fire Procopio Himself, New Rochelle Mayor and Coward - in - Chief Noam Bramson Seeks to Amend City Charter

Mayor Bill de Blasio, seeking to curb the influence of outside providers of education, said on Thursday that he would block three charter schools from using space inside New York City public school buildings.

The New York state NAACP sought to join a lawsuit filed by city and state teachers unions to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from implementing its less rigorous certification standards for some of the state's charter sCharter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from implementing its less rigorous certification standards for some of the state's charter scharter schools.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

Teachers and staff at the Academy of the City Charter School in Long Island City have announced they will seek to be represented by the United Federation of Teachers.

Avella would also seek to see changes to all three of the city's public library systems, changing the City Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servacity's public library systems, changing the City Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servaCity Charter to list executives at the Queens, Brooklyn and New York public libraries as public servants.

Moskowitz's lawyers have informed city officials they will not sign a mandatory contract allowing the Education Department to oversee the charter's pre-K program, officials said — even though her privately run Success Academy network seeks thousands of dollars in public funds for each student.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

Naturally, this leads the fiscally strapped city to seek private buyers for those buildings in the least disrepair and to offer charters more dilapidated buildings that will cost millions to be made safe for children.

As of 2005, more than one - third of the city's parents chose either to enroll their child in a charter school, use a voucher to go to a private school, or seek out a place in a suburban public school.

«In recent weeks, he has arranged meetings with charter school advocates; in past conversations, he has sought to persuade them that he is not a zealot who will seek to drive their schools from the city.»

In exchange, she sought money for the public system, limitation of vouchers» use to private schools in the city, and discussion of a «Marshall Plan» for public schools, charter schools, and other nonprofit education facilities in the city.

Mr. Pashall is the city councilman who sponsored the change to the city's charter and who was quoted in the article as saying «teenagers drive on public streets, pay income taxes on jobs and seek police support, which earns them a vote.

In some cities, charter chains seek to drive the public schools out of business.

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Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nocharter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - 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Congress, in instituting the District's Charter School Reform Act of 1995, sought to remedy some of the deepest problems, but it wasn't until the election of Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2006 and the appointment of Michelle Rhee to lead the school system that the city really committed to reform.

The Banneker Blake Academy for Arts and Sciences, an all boys public charter middle school within the Baltimore City Public School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curriculum.

Charters were just one piece of a broader dream for advocates, who sought to make New York City — the nation's largest school district — into the central urban laboratory for education reform.

But the plan would also alter the politics of the city's education system by pulling the independently operated schools under the direct influence of a powerful labor group that has sought to limit charter expansion.

Stephenson said the problem in a number of cases for charter schools has been with them seeking to use eminent domain to gather a small property to complete their planned footprint, where cities do not wish to exercise eminent domain for such a small purpose.

Science Enrichment Teacher Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School, located in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced full - time Science Teacher who is passionate about engaging, motivating and working...

Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

Physical Education Teacher Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School, located in Jersey City, NJ seeks an experienced full - time Physical Education Teacher who is passionate about engaging, motivating...

Interestingly, two well - established Camden charter networks are seeking to use the Urban Hope Act to expand in the city and take advantage of its freer provisions for schools facilities.

Unlike many charter schools, the charters Canada created — although technically open to any student in New York City — deliberately seek out the hardest - to - reach kids and fight to keep them on that conveyor belt to college by any means possible.

Similarly, black and brown families in cities throughout the country are demanding high - quality public charter options, and the platform language seeks to deny those options to families whenever the district decides that such parent - driven decisions disrupt district practices.

The planned redevelopment of the former Nine Inch Nails recording studio on Magazine Street and the proposed expansion of Audubon Charter School both return to a city board Wednesday morning seeking waivers required to start their projects.

As the year opened, the LA Unified Board of Education in the same week hired a new superintendent and unanimously voted to oppose a $ 490 - million draft plan from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation that sought to rapidly increase the number of charter schools in the city so that charters would encompass half the «market share» of the entire district.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation had never been in the business of issuing tax exempt bonds for charter schools, but starting with the Bronx Charter School for Excellence and another school that was seeking funding at the same time, the public economic development entity became a major charter school funder in Necharter schools, but starting with the Bronx Charter School for Excellence and another school that was seeking funding at the same time, the public economic development entity became a major charter school funder in NeCharter School for Excellence and another school that was seeking funding at the same time, the public economic development entity became a major charter school funder in Necharter school funder in New York.

Great Hearts seeks to transform communities and cities by creating self - sustaining networks of high - performing charter schools.

Unions picketed the opening of the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles in 2015 and later planned protests citywide against the «Great Public Schools Now Initiative,» which sought to raise philanthropic dollars to add 260 charter schools in Los Angeles that would enroll half of the city's students.

Because of «political challenges» in New York City, where a charter skeptic just replaced a pro-charter mayor, AF would seek to open the schools in Connecticut, in «Bridgeport or New Haven,» she said.

Although Bridgeport is allowed to seek state reimbursement for all transportation costs associated with the charter schools in the city, in all the years it has applied for such, in fact, the Bridgeport Public Schools has never received a single dollar of reimbursement for this.

Charter school seats are concentrated near downtown while more impoverished neighborhoods with more school aged children have fewer schools — requiring those seeking choice to travel significant distances in a city of 140 square miles.