Sentences with phrase «took over the charter school»

Politicians, ideologues, so - called libertarians, and crooks attracted by profit motives, took over the charter school experiment.

Not exact matches

A four - star recruit out of the 329 year - old William Penn Charter School just outside of north Philadelphia, McGlinchey's 6 - feet - 8 frame caught the eyes of the revered current Chicago Bears offensive line coach Harry Hiestand, who put him behind future first - round pick Zack Martin to watch and learn, for he would eventually take over his spot at left tackle.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was critical on Thursday of an effort being pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have the state take over low - performing public schools, saying it could potentially lead to them becoming charter schools.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

Liberal advocates remain restless over Cuomo's support for tax policies they believe leans too heavily toward the wealthy and corporate interests and are taken aback by his vocal support for charter schools.

If the state takes over failing schools, they can be turned into charters by the State Education Department.

For eight years, she's been the lightning rod of the charter movement, raising millions from hedge funders and foundations as she aggressively worked her close connections to the Bloomberg administration to take over space in public schools.

The approved 2015 - 16 state budget includes a program for struggling or «failing» schools to be taken over by a state monitor, with the schools potentially re-opening as charter schools.

Cuomo's education plan includes revamping the state's teacher evaluation system, increasing the charter school cap, approving the education investment tax credit and DREAM Act and allowing outside entities to take over failing schools.

His stance on education would be to fund charter schools as independent non-profit entities, allowing them to expand throughout the states and eventually take over private schools.

Cuomo is tying much of the increase to approval of his education policy changes in this year's budget, including a new teacher evaluation system, addressing failing schools by having them taken over by a state monitory and a strengthening of charter schools.

A group of veteran charter school proponents has filed with the State Education Department to take over East High and Waterfront, dropping union contracts and adding longer school days and longer school years.

To be fair, he likely promised as much to win the union's backing to take over the Assembly leadership — and no matter that some Assembly Democrats oppose the UFT's efforts to, for example, kill the charter schools that are working miracles in high - poverty, minority neighborhoods.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to redirect $ 210 million over five years that had been set aside for the construction of charter schools.

(NYC) Brian Jones, the Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, took aim at the recent announcement by the SuccessAcademy that it would seek to expand the size of its network of charter schools over the next few years.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

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States can choose to shut these schools down, turn them into charter schools, take them over, or use another, significant turnaround strategy.

Finally, the school board (which had experienced significant turnover in the November 2012 elections) agreed to hear a proposal from the parents» chosen charter operator, which hopes to take over the school in the fall.

A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles teachers union that was aimed at blocking the school district from allowing charter operators to take over new schools.

The neutral panel recommended a balanced mix of charter firms, nonprofits, and district educators to take over the 36 schools.

A study of Title I accountability shows that as of 2004, only 1 of 12 states with Title I schools identified for restructuring reopened a school as a public charter: 1 turned over operations to the state, 2 states replaced school staff, and 8 took no action.

that the No Excuses approach needs to be overhauled, but that» if there is one group of schools that have shown they have what it takes to help teachers learn and change over time, it's the high - performing charter schools founded in a no - excuses approach.»

Some teacher groups, opposed to charter school expansion, submitted bids to take over eligible choice campuses as pilot schools.

This model, in which principals are no longer hog - tied by elaborate bureaucratic or confining union rules, proved attractive to teachers eager to take over campuses, but who equate charters with privatization of school management.

The restructuring options prescribed by law include strong measures, such as turning failing schools into charter schools or allowing the state to take them over.

In spring 2006, Maryland state superintendent of public instruction Nancy Grasmick sought to take over 11 chronically low - performing Baltimore schools that were subject to restructuring and convert them to charters or contract their management with private companies.

The mayor of Los Angeles has criticized the L.A. Unified school district for not allowing more charter organizations to take over low - performing district schools when the district considered bids last February.

So far, no states have taken over schools as part of NCLB restructuring, and the number of charter conversions or privatizations is still quite small.

The Education Achievement Authority (EAA) of Michigan, a state agency, in 2011 took over 12 schools and now oversees 15 schools in Detroit, including 3 charter schools.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

After Hurricane Katrina struck, he championed plans for the state to take over most of the schools in New Orleans under the Recovery School District, which oversees 37 schools now operating in the city, including some charters.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

Over the past 20 years, both charter schools and prekindergarten have taken on increasingly prominent roles in the schooling of America's children.

There will likely be a significant increase in the number of charter schools that open in New Orleans in the next school year, as 117 of the 125 schools were labeled as «low performing» by the state and thus could be taken over and converted to charters.

A struggling Nashville, Tenn., middle school will become the state's first public school to be turned into a charter school, with a yet - to - be-named company possibly taking it over a grade at a time.

Take the debate over charter schools: the battle lines have been the same for twenty years.

Over the past 20 years, both charter schools and pre-kindergarten education have taken on increasingly prominent roles in the schooling of America's children.

In the middle of writing the application for the charter school they wanted to open, Arne Duncan asked them to take over a public school he was closing in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

These students are over 1.6 times more likely to meet a key graduation requirement, over three times more likely to be eligible for a state merit scholarship, and over 3.8 times more likely to take at least one AP exam in a charter school compared to their peers who do not receive charter lottery offers.

But last year voters overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the state to take over schools and put them in an Opportunity School District, with the option of converting them to charters.

If charter schools took over the whole city, there would be tremendous pressure for them to become fully, or partly, neighborhood schools of right.

KIPP's staunchest critics have said they won't be convinced until the charter system replicates its success by taking over traditional, impoverished public schools.

Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inSchool, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool district in 2008.

«We see more and more charter school authorizers in cities with large charter market shares (like Washington, DC, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New Orleans) are starting to encourage high performing charter school operators to take over and restart low performing charter campuses.»