Sentences with phrase «than the charter school groups»

The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.

Not exact matches

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in public school buildings cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than regular public schools.

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

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.

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.

More than half of all charter schools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools located within public school buildings are overcrowded compared to only 16 % of district schools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Sschools they share space with, according to the analysis of data conducted by the pro-charter school group Families for Excellent SchoolsSchools.

StudentsFirstNY, a group that promotes charter schools, stricter teacher evaluations and changes to teacher tenure, has spent more than $ 500,000 to run its own advertisements in New York City and Albany supporting Mr. Cuomo's plans.

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Civil rights groups oppose charters even though African - Americans are learning more at charters than at public schools.

However, for all three age groups, charter - school parents are more satisfied than parents at assigned - district schools.

On average, charter schools show higher achievement than traditional public schools, especially with traditionally underserved student groups and in urban environments.

While a tax credit may be more politically palatable than asking Congress to find or reallocate money to fulfill Trump's $ 20 billion promise to expand charter and private school options, «just because it's more palatable, doesn't mean it tastes good,» said Noelle Ellerson Ng, the group's associate executive director.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

At charter schools, however, race matching appears unrelated to student discipline across all groups, suggesting that discipline dynamics may have been different in charters than in traditional public schools during the period we studied.

More than two - dozen groups initially submitted letters of interest to the department to start charter schools, but many were subsequently withdrawn, including one by Rev. Kenneth Moales Jr., who is now chairman of the city school board in Bridgeport.

OnePA and other groups are advocating and organizing for sustainable community schools, rather than further expansion of charters.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

For example, a report released recently (by the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates, a nonprofit law firm and advocacy group) found that more than 20 percent of all California charter schools have enrollment policies that violate state and federal law.

In December 2010, signatures of more than 60 % of the school's parents were submitted to the school district, calling for turning the school over to the Celerity Educational Group charter operator.

More than 60 parents boycotted that process at the urging of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles reform group and charter - school ally that organized McKinley's effort.

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

The rule means charter operators must prove that they can show strong results without «creaming» students, or somehow enrolling an easier - to - teach group of students than the regular public schools do.

Here's a more immediate benefit: Under a resolution sponsored by Yolie Flores Aguilar, vice president of the L.A. Unified school board, charter operators, along with unions and community groups, could submit proposals to run any of more than 50 new campuses that will open over the next three to four years.

Many advocacy groups now position charter schools as competitors — rather than collaborators — with traditional public schools.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.

A small, anti-charter group is hoping to gather more than 360,000 signatures to put this initiative on the ballot in November, with the goal of closing every charter school in California.

While charter school advocates say the practice often reflects no more than smart budgeting, some educators and others question whether the schools receive the proper oversight to ensure that religious groups are not benefiting from taxpayer dollars intended for public school students — or that faith - based instruction is not entering those classrooms.

He probably has no idea of the extent to which the Gulen charter school operators lie, or that the drive to expand their charter school network is to influence young American minds in more ways than just math and science, and to reap financial and H - IB visa benefits for other members of their cult - like religious group — and thus extend their presence and power.

In the 2015 - 16 school year, as a group, charter schools saw slightly lower proficiency rates than district schools.

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StudentsFirstNY, a group that promotes charter schools, stricter teacher evaluations and changes to teacher tenure, has spent more than $ 500,000 to run its own advertisements in New York City and Albany supporting Mr. Cuomo's plans.

According to the latest lobbying reports filed by the various corporate education reform lobbying groups with the Office of State Ethics, the corporate - funded advocacy organizations that support charter schools, the Common Core and the absurd Common Core testing scheme spent more than $ 1.9 million lobbying Malloy and the legislature in 2015.

«It's very disheartening that we have a group of prominent businessmen in El Paso who feel it's more important to provide that amount of money to bring in charter schools rather than providing it to the public schools to help better improve the resources and what we provide to all of our children in El Paso,» De La Rosa said.

The new group, an outgrowth of a plan from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, has identified 16 charters, 8 magnets and 4 traditional schools within the district that have more than 75 percent of students qualifying for free and reduced - price meals and more than 60 percent of students who meet or exceed standards for English Language Arts.

The group's North Carolina school, The Capitol Encore Academy in Fayetteville, is a K - 8 charter serving more than 350 students, roughly half of whom are considered «economically disadvantaged.»

The charter group said, «If Caputo - Pearl wants to debate anyone, he should start by debating the parents of the more than 100,000 Los Angeles students who have chosen charter public schools» in LA Unified.

Your organization is also focusing on legislative change in regards to small school accountability; changes in rules that will help to minimize the risk of failing to meet state standards faced by smaller charters due to lower student accountability group ratios than what is typically found in larger school systems.

More than 4,000 charter school leaders, educators, advocates, and policymakers are expected to attend the annual gathering that's hosted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacycharter school leaders, educators, advocates, and policymakers are expected to attend the annual gathering that's hosted by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacyCharter Schools, the nation's largest charter advocacycharter advocacy group.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

However, the distinction between for - profit and nonprofit is often messier than groups like NAPCS readily admit: Nonprofit charters can still hire for - profit management companies to run their schools.

Despite comprising more than half of all charters, independent charter schools rarely dominate the press narratives, and seldom attract the same level of enthusiasm from philanthropists and advocacy groups.

Along with the shift in goals, the public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools, to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse» than traditional public schools.

According to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pCharter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pSchools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pcharter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pcharter schools are run by for - pschools are run by for - profits.

A group of more than a dozen charter alumni have chosen to give back in a powerful way: by inviting current charter high school students to become advocates for the charter movement.

After Lewis finished explaining that under the new system, the charter boards will run the schools and the Orleans Parish School Board will set standards for them, he opened the meeting up for questions — including several from a group of more than a dozen parents and children wearing shirts with the «Our Voice / Nuestra Voz» logo.