Sentences with phrase «treat public charter school students»

«This budget agreement was hard - fought and we deeply appreciate the tenacious commitment of Governor Cuomo, Majority Leader [John] Flanagan and Coalition Leader [Jeffrey] Klein to treat public charter school students fairly,» said James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center.

Not exact matches

«All students must be treated equitably by the Department of Education, whether they are in a traditional public school or a public charter school.»

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

«We are here today because every public school student deserves to be treated fairly, but right now that's not happening, said La'Quita Boles, a mother of two students who attend public charter schools in Bridgeport.

One valid challenge in estimating DC gains for which there are no available answers is how to treat gains under Rhee between public school students attending charter and non-charter public schools.

So it is ironic that the media treat charters as identical as they zero in on one overriding question: do students attending them learn more than students attending traditional public schools?

The message to legislative leaders was simple — students in public charter schools should be treated fairly when it comes to funding their education.

«It's absolutely unacceptable that public charter school students are treated as less than their other public school peers,» said Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut state director for the Northeast Charter Schools Ncharter school students are treated as less than their other public school peers,» said Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut state director for the Northeast Charter Schools NCharter Schools Network.

To be purposely excluded from a tax measure intended to benefit all public school students is disingenuous on behalf of the board, as it is in essence treating the almost 9,500 students who attend charters schools as second - class citizens and putting their needs on the back burner.

A DOE spokeswoman said the city school system treats all public schools and students equally, but said the city school system is responsible for other costs, such as contractually negotiated obligations for salaries, benefits and pensions, that charter schools are not obligated to provide employees.

It treats public charter students more like their district school friends when it comes to funding and increases access to high - performing public charters.