Sentences with phrase «than charters on»

It's an indication of two things: that de Blasio learned from his tactical mistakes in confronting charters last spring, and that the mayor has far bigger items than charters on his education agenda.

Not exact matches

Summit does this by chartering an ocean liner and taking attendees on a camping trip to the mountains rather than booking a hotel in a major city.

It hung on longer than many, but what goes around eventually comes around in the vicious eat - or - be-eaten world of Canadian charter airlines.

The WSJ notes that the regulators have gone further than they did when approving AT&T's bid for DirecTV last year, also banning Charter from imposing fees for interconnection deals on companies like Netflix.

In what may be the clearest sign that Morrison is intent on doing more than «putting the barn on the package,» she backed Plum's decision in 2013 to become a public benefit corporation, which codifies the business's social and environmental purpose in its charter.

Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

May 2 Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up 20 points on Wednesday, according to financial bookmakers * STANDARD CHARTERED: Standard Chartered Plc posted a better - than - expected 20 percent rise in pretax profit for the first three months of the year, helped by a surge in loan demand and improvement in asset quality.

(Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who, like Price, spent more than $ 1 million on military and charter travel, still has a job too.)

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.»

«If DeVos follows through on her plans to privatize education and hold charter schools receiving federal funds to different standards than public schools, as she indicated she would in her confirmation hearing, this could mean that fewer and fewer schools are even required to follow Title IX guidelines at all,» Gibbs wrote.

In 1970, one year after the school was kicked out of the Mid-American Conference as punishment for more than 100 NCAA violations, a chartered plane carrying 75 players, coaches, fans, university employees and crew crashed, killing all on board.

«It is difficult when the charter school lobbyists have spent more than $ 5 million on a TV and radio advertising campaign.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

«More than 85 public charter schools from across the state will be in Albany on Tuesday.

The fight over control of the Senate came into relief this month when a prominent political donor and charter school benefactor, Dan Loeb, wrote on Facebook that Stewart - Cousins has been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Additionally, Szukala implemented the Erie County Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Tip Line, which has responded to more than 300 anonymous tips from taxpayers since 2008, and has acted as Secretary to the Erie County Audit Committee, the Charter - mandated board tasked with selecting the County's external auditor and reporting on the implementation of recommendations.

Loeb in a since - deleted Facebook post wrote Stewart - Cousins has been worse for people of color than the Ku Klux Klan due to her stance on charter schools.

The proposed law would amend the Erie County Charter to require that goods purchased by the county that cost more than $ 10,000 be manufactured in the U.S. and all contracts for services for more than $ 10,000 are made with entities in the U.S. Morton said he has not given up on the issue and continues to pursue a compromise.

It's not any different than during the budget when he was standing with the Senate on charters.

They say the test results show that charter school students scored higher on the exams than did public school students.

While serving on the Westchester County Charter Commission, charged with improving county government, Killian missed more than half of the meetings and skipped more than 80 percent of votes taken.

On Friday, deputy mayor Richard Buery said the city received fewer pre-K applications from charters than he expected.

With the exception of the appointment of department heads, none of whom have been challenged by the legislature in more than five years of charter government, Hein has virtually unlimited authority on hirings and firings.

Rather than looking at supporting the troops on the frontline, which the prime minister has consistently argued can not be improved, the charter aims to guarantee the rights of service personnel, their families and veterans.

«It may be dressed up in academic think - tank language, but this is no more than a crude attack on basic workplace rights and a charter for bad bosses everywhere,» she said, dredging up the spectre of Margaret Thatcher's premiership and telling the authors to «get out more».

For a start, as editors know well, Miller played no more than a walk - on role in the decision to create a royal charter to underpin press regulation.

You may recall that more than a decade ago, felonious former Gov. John G. Rowland came to grief and went off to prison the first time for exchanging favors for charter jet flights and going with a group on a Las Vegas junket, some of whose members had a reported rendezvous with Las Vegas prostitutes.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, standing shoulder to shoulder in Albany with thousands of parents and students who rallied in support of charter schools, vowed on Tuesday to defend the movement and offered a sharply different vision for their place in the educational system than Mayor Bill de Blasio's.

Mr. Jeffries could face attacks on certain positions, such as his enthusiasm for charter schools, that might be less popular in a citywide Democratic primary than with political donors who support education reform.

Make no mistake, the gravity of this agenda has shifted away from the majority party; one need not look any further than the Governor's riff on charter schools and their importance to the minority community.

More than a dozen elected officials are signing on to a letter pledging support for charter schools ahead of a major rally in New York City.

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboCharter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collabocharter networks, praised the collaboration.

ALBANY — More than 1,000 charter - school students and teachers descended on Albany Tuesday to demand equal funding with regular public schools.

The annual lobby day is hosted by the New York City Charter School Center and Northeast Charter Schools Network, two groups that maintain a decidedly less confrontational political posture than Moskowitz's Success Academy and a group that lobbies on its behalf, Families for Excellent Schools.

With fewer cash - strapped news outlets willing to underwrite the cost, reporters were forced to fly commercial on Obama's visits to Prague and Cape Canaveral — and some White House support staff had to be left home rather than hitching a ride on the press charter.

More than 70,000 students are now in charter schools, with 50,000 parents on waiting lists.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

But a chorus of Democrats, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, has called on Mr. Loeb to step down from Success Academy, a major network of charter schools that serves more than 90 percent minority children.

But Smikle said Cuomo also is philosophically closer to Lhota than de Blasio on education issues, particularly on charter schools.

Questions during the Q&A portion of the press conference included his plans during his scheduled visit to Albany on March 4th, why he expects to convince legislators who he has not convinced, whether he's concerned that the middle school program will be pushed aside if there is a pre-K funding mechanism other than his proposed tax, where the money to fund the middle school program will come from, how he counters the argument that his tax proposal is unfair to cities that do not have a high earner tax base, how he will measure the success of the program absent additional standardized testing, whether he expects to meet with Governor Cuomo or Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos during his March 4th trip, what he would say to a parent whose child planned on attending one of the charter schools that his administration refused to allow, whether he doubts Governor Cuomo's commitment or ability to deliver on the funding the governor has promised, what are the major hurdles in trying to convince the state senate to approve his tax proposal, whether there's an absolute deadline for getting his tax proposal approved, whether he can promise parents pre-K spots should Governor Cuomo's proposal gointo effect, and why he has not met with Congressman Michael Grimm since taking office.

But he did not see fit to focus on charter schools in his State of the State speech in January, where he lays out his economic and policy goals for the year, any more than he'd chosen to focus on them at any point since becoming governor.

Success Charter Network's first school, Harlem Success Academy I on West 118th Street, scored better on the DOE's 2009 - 10 school progress reports than both P.S. 199 and the well - regarded P.S. 87.

Charter school proponents maintain that more than 40,000 children are on waiting lists to attend their schools.

«There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,» said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

«The charter encourages researchers to take into account the biological age of a person rather than their chronological age,» he says, adding that imposing upper age limits on clinical trials is unjustifiable.

As more schools move forward with their own efforts, many are taking their cue from the mavericks on time and learning: charter schools, where more than two - thirds run on longer days, many successfully.