Sentences with phrase «though charter advocates»

* About 5 percent attend charter schools, according to 2013 - 14 data, the latest available, though charter advocates say it is now 6 percent.

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But it is designed to demonstrate that Perkins has support in the district even though Smikle is expected to be well - organized and well - funded (especially if the charter school advocates and Smikle's former boss, Mayor Bloomberg, have something to say about it).

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

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.

Though few charter advocates have openly wrestled with this issue, two camps have organically emerged.

In the view of charter advocates, though, the new law simply brings more balance to school funding.

A classic example is charter advocates settling for state laws that underfund charter schools, even embracing the argument that «charter schools can do it for less» in order to get the law passed, though experience shows that this accommodation can cripple actual entrepreneurs in practice.

Though long - term, system - wide solutions have so far been out of reach in many states, some advocates are finding success by tackling charter equity challenges one piece at a time.

ACSA's mission is to support student achievement though high - quality charter schools, advocate for student equity and charter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong credible organization.

Though advocates have proposed at least three South Sound charter schools, their applications can go nowhere until voters decide the fate of the referendum, which apparently has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Some charters do a great job, but even some advocates (though not all) are finally admitting that too many states allowed charters to open and operate without sufficient oversight.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support student achievement though high - quality charter schools, advocate for student equity and charter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organiCharter Schools Association is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support student achievement though high - quality charter schools, advocate for student equity and charter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organicharter schools, advocate for student equity and charter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organicharter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organicharter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organization.

As an education expert on the Association's Board of Directors, Rendón will advise Arizona's largest charter support organization in its mission to support student achievement though high - quality charter schools, advocate for student equity and charter school autonomy, and lead Arizona charter schools as a sustainable, strong and credible organization.

In the end, only 5 new charters were approved, and though the 29 rejected applications can be appealed to a new state commission, the night was a victory for advocates of better oversight of the charter school industry.

Though she was often outnumbered, she sought to restrict the number charter schools approved by the board and advocated for more stringent oversight.

Though some education reform advocates have dismissed the idea that districts can't sufficiently downsize when students leave for charters — they chalk the problem up to bureaucratic recalcitrance — many people acknowledge that such expenses as pension commitments simply can not be scaled back when student enrollment shifts.

Currently, the business and civic leaders of the city have advocated for more charters, even though several of the city's charters have been investigated for financial misdeeds.

Josh McGee, a prominent pension reform advocate at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, also thinks it would be wrong to ask charters to help pay down legacy costs, though he says it's true it could be «cumbersome» if local districts have to pay the bulk of those pension liabilities alone.

Designed for distribution at black churches around the state, «A Stone's Throw» relies exclusively on testimony of African American parents, students, educators and education - reform advocates, each with praise to sing about the wonders of charters schools or a lament about the lack of charters in Mississippi — even though the phrase «charter school» doesn't appear until a quarter through the film.

If you've been following the education reform debate, you will have seen that various news outlets have reported that over the past six years only two new charter schools have opened even though there have been at least 20 applications from charter advocates to open new programs.