Sentences with phrase «talking about charter schools»

My son, Ivan Hernandez, heard us talking about charter schools and said we shouldn't support them.

It almost sounded like she was talking about charter schools.

As much as he wanted to avoid talking about charter schools, Superintendent Pascal Mubenga couldn't get around discussing their impact on Durham Public Schools during his town hall meeting Tuesday night at Hillside High School.

To the extent they're talking about charter schools, they're not wedded to the full mission of what a charter school is — which is to give complete autonomy to a principal to hire the best teachers and fire those who are not performing well.

So it's important for us to have a strong offensive line when it comes to talking about charter schools and defining exactly what a high quality charter school looks like [and] what we want the sector to look like over the next twenty years.

«You have a federal [leadership team] talking about charter schools without any prompting from us.»

The mayor's office staff disdain to play up the rhetoric of free markets in talking about their charter schools, but much of their intelligence derives from outside government: nonprofits and even the private sector.

We kick off our mini-series with homeschooling, tomorrow will be «unschooling» and on Thursday, JoAnn talks about charter schools.

Cuomo said it was reasonable for the Republicans to talk about charter schools — provoking the ire of the Assembly — but offered no more details, and no legislation.

Nelson Smith, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, talked about charter schools and their...

The way opponents talk about charter schools, you'd think they were educational King Kongs, threatening to stomp and destroy our beloved public schools.

When Bill Clinton talked about charter schools and accountability in 1992 he was sending a signal that he was a «New» Democrat and not beholden to the Democratic Party's interest group orthodoxy.

«We've talked about charter schools and making sure charter schools are as accountable as other public schools,» Cowell said.

SM: There has been a lot of talk about charter schools in the context of education reform, yet some studies have shown that charter schools as a whole don't necessarily perform better than traditional public schools.

Now, next time you hear the Malloy administration talk about charter school accountability, you'll know a bit more of the back story.

Watch this musical and peace - loving video from Discovery Charter School that talks about their charter school philosophy and shows their school signing and being together as one!

«A CNN reporter came to my house in November 2010 to talk about the charter school.

Jeb Bush is still talking about the charter school he helped to create, even though the local school board shut it down in 2008.

«We're thinking,» she recalled, «he's going to talk about a charter school.

In a speech titled «My Passion for Education Reform,» published Sept. 1 on his Web site, he talks about charter schools without even a vague hint of any problems with them, including the one he co-founded in 1996.

Bill Phillips, President of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, talks about charter schools and this year's Common Core test results in New York.

Not exact matches

Tough talked about character in a recent interview, citing a chain of charter schools called KIPP and its dedicated founder, David Levin.

Bill Phillips, the President of the Northeast Charter Schools Network, joined us to talk about this.

NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi makes the case against the Senate Charter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforCharter School Bill, and talks about what he'd like to see in a charter reforcharter reform bill.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders continue to talk with Gov. Andrew Cuomo about a «grand plan» to renew mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorize sales taxes around the state and, possibly, increase the number of charter schools.

There have not been any angry public walkouts from the negotiating room to this point, but there have been the usual grumbling about the stickiest issues, which this week include talks on «Raise the Age,» workers compensation reform and support for charter schools.

Last year, after talking tough about forcing charter schools to pay rent, de Blasio showed no appetite for taking on the movement's noisiest leader, Eva Moskowitz.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain, associate editor of the Times Union about a charter school proposal that would allow uncredited teachers to work, and a push to sue pharmaceutical companies that produce opioids.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, anCharter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, ancharter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

I hear Crooks and Liars is having an expose on the greatness of Obamacare, the evils of charter schools and the benefits of a bag tax (and I'm not talking about MaryJane).

Cuomo said nothing about charter schools and talked about taxes and other subjects.

The mayor has generally avoided talking about charters since his unsuccessful fight over charter school space in March 2014.

On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about today's primary and charter schools in New York.

He talks about more rigorous standards and evaluations for teachers and students, even while the charter schools he champions function without any effective oversight.

Fresh off the Legislature's second on - time budget in a row, Sen. Saland talks about the need to balance capital and administrative spending, explains the state budget's hold harmless rules and gives his opinion on the effectiveness of charter schools in New York and around the country.

Easton talks about the impact of the governor's proposed education budget, accountability in the education system, charter schools and much more.

She was profiled in the New York Times Magazine in September, testified before Congress in July about educational opportunity for African - Americans, headlined a talk about education at the Sun Valley conference, also in July, and was named to the «hall of fame» of the National Alliance for Charter Schools in June.

We talk with Paul about Canada's vision, the role that the Promise Academy Charter school is playing, and the evidence about whether the Zone is working to transform Harlem and the children who live there.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

In an exclusive interview with Education Week, Richard Barth talks about expulsion and suspension policies in his charter school network.

On this week's podcast, Marty West talks with Larry Kearns, a principal at Wheeler Kearns Architects, a Chicago - based design firm, about how he and his team designed two charter schools to support their blended learning models.

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, was at AEI on Tuesday, October 3 to talk with Rick Hess about her battles to reform America's education system, the topic of her new book.

Marty West talks with Sarah Cordes about her new research on this topic: «Charters and the Common Good: The spillover effects of charter schools in New York City.»

In this episode, Marty West talks with Robin Lake about pitfalls that charter school entrepreneurs and those who support them need to avoid.

Paul Peterson talks with Jochim about the factors that allow some school districts to collaborate with charter schools.

And Cruz, like others, talks about the various experiments (like the Jesuits» Cristo Rey network and the conversion of parish schools to charters — see Andy Smarick's comprehensive report for Seton Education Partners about Washington, DC's experience), but doesn't he wonder where the Church's bishops are?

Brian Gill talks with Education Next about why students who attend charter high schools have higher rates of high school graduation and college attendance.

Occupy Providence seamlessly folded a message about our «corporate» or «big box» charter - school application into their talking points, giving additional force to the opposition's testimony.

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu talks about the school reforms taking place in his city (charters!)