Sentences with phrase «threatened by charter»

The unions hate tying teacher evaluations to test scores and feel threatened by charter schools.

«It is becoming clearer all the time that the current UTLA leadership isn't threatened by charter schools or other bogeymen — they're actually threatened by the notion that parents in these communities, whose kids have gotten a crappy deal for a generation or more, should have any real power to do something about it.»

But the teachers union, threatened by charters that outperform traditional, union - run schools, thinks it can squash the competition by depriving it of real estate.

Not exact matches

Eva Moskowitz, the charter school chief and frequent critic of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, threatened to shut her new prekindergarten program if her dispute with his administration over payment isn't resolved by mid-February.

At D.F.S. he won major settlements — a boon to the state budget — by threatening to poll the New York charter of overseas banks that were accused of currency manipulation and violating trade sanctions.

[55] In 1998, Pataki prevailed upon the Legislature to pass a charter school law by threatening to veto a legislative pay raise if the bill was not passed.

There have also been some prosecutorial flairs in what had previously been a regulator's office: Lawsky, working with federal officials, won massive payments for the state by threatening to revoke the charters of several foreign banks, including BNP Paribas and Standard Charter.

Privately, they conceded that passing the measure was an attempt to derail a threatened big - ticket political campaign against them by Mayor Bloomberg and other prominent charter - school supporters that could cost them their razor - thin majority in the November elections.

Charter schools, the one type of public school that is actually being held to account by authorizing bodies, are now threatened with closure if they don't perform to standards other public schools can safely ignore.

There have been heartening instances where chartering enabled a community — threatened by a consolidation effort — to maintain a local school, preserving the community and its heritage.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Schools.

NEARLY A YEAR AGO, charter school proponents threatened to force a statewide debate on education issues by mounting a ballot campaign lift the cap on charters schools.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

In particular, a growing charter sector threatens traditional districts by competing with them for students and funding, whereas teaming up with a district may threaten a charter sector's valuable autonomy.

«With the spotlight shone on public school choice this election year, we've seen a stirring up of opinion... and we've also seen expensive, sustained, and coordinated campaigns to discredit charter schools, led by teachers» unions and special interests that feel threatened by families having a choice in public school.»

Within the fine print of StarShine's alleged waste of taxpayer dollars is the fact that the charter board tried to close the school in 2012 for academic and financial problems but changed course when it was threatened with legal action by the charter holder and instead renewed its charter for 20 years.

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Yet that model might be threatened by the U.S. Department of Education's recent $ 71 million grant to Ohio to expand charter schools, despite their track record of waste, fraud and abuse in the state.

Charter opponents are threatened by the growth of independent public schools that offer a promise of performance, are held to account by contract and open to parents by choice.

Echoing the criticism of at least three school superintendents of large Florida districts, Oropeza wants lawmakers to adopt the elements of Sen. David Simmons» bill (SB 1552) that will provide additional help to students in struggling schools, instead of threatening «takeover» by charter schools.

One of them, Shavar Jeffries, president of the Democrats for Education Reform, an influential political action committee supported heavily by hedge fund managers favoring charter schools, merit - pay tied to test scores and related reforms, issued a statement that went so far as to say that the original draft on education was «progressive and balanced» but that the new language «threatens to roll back» President Obama's education legacy.

In 2011, some charter operators were threatening to leave LA Unified's Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA) and have their special education students served by the El Dorado County Office of Education in Northern California.

«This year, charter schools are facing unprecedented attacks in the California Legislature, as demonstrated by AB 401, and other short - sighted bills that threaten to limit the number of charter schools able to operate in the state.

Sadly, our State and nation are forcing millions of children out of their homes due to an economic crisis created by the same Wall Street gamblers who are now threatening our public schools by funding fake charter school groups.

Just as Bernie Sanders believes that the middle class in our country is in jeopardy from the oligarchs, likewise oligarchs such as Bill Gates, Bill Walton, Michael Bloomberg, to name a few of the corporate education oligarch reformers, are threatening to change and destroy public education in the nation by replacing public schools with charter schools.

The resolution was proposed by the two board members most vocally supportive of charter schools (Rodriguez co-founded one), and they can see collaboration with philanthropic groups that others view as threatening to the district.