Sentences with phrase «up over charter schools»

He used de Blasio as a foil during a dust - up over charter schools earlier this year that resulted in extraordinary giveaways to charters in the state budget.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The NYC - based teachers union is ratcheting up its war over charters in the wake of the Senate's 45 - 15 passage yesterday of a bill that would increase the cap on the schools from 200 to 460.

Talks blew up Wednesday evening in part over the issue of charter school funding, which had been frozen since 2009.

A Cuomo spokesman did not offer a comment on the status of the talks, but lawmakers said things were tied up over the same issues as last week: raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, reviving the 421 - a housing subsidy program and figuring out how much money to give public and charter schools.

Charter school advocates and those seeking an education tax credit that would allow people to donate up to a million dollars tax free to send underprivileged children to private schools, among other things, together spent over $ 7.5 million.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

Online charter school enrollment grew around 60 percent during the period studied, from approximately 22,000 students in 2010 to over 35,000 students in 2013, with high schools making up the majority of online charter enrollment.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

The groups he has supported reads like a Who's Who of the brand of education reform that favors online learning and charter schools over traditional schools: According to the publication Education Next, his money helped start the NewSchools Venture Fund, a major funder of charter schools and ed tech start - ups, and Aspire Public schools, a charter school network.

These early deficits are often partially offset by start - up grants from the federal Charter School Program and the Walton Family Foundation, which together typically amount to more than $ 500,000 per school, spread out over several School Program and the Walton Family Foundation, which together typically amount to more than $ 500,000 per school, spread out over several school, spread out over several years.

Observe the recent dust - up over school suspension policies in two of the most successful charter networks in the nation's capital.

Over the last 20 years, I've been involved in more than 100 charter - school start - ups.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pacharter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, paCharter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, paCharter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

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Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

«Turning around» low - performing schools is a euphemism for NCLB - style punishments: if scores don't go up, schools are closed, privatized, turned into charters or handed over to the state.

The initiative allows up to 40 charter school to be established over five years, a maximum of eight each year.

The charter law approved by voters in November allows up to 40 charter schools to open in Washington state over the next five years.

Voters authorized the opening of up to 40 charter schools over five years.

It's a controversial model that, based on the numbers reported in similar programs in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana, has produced mixed results and bitter opposition from local parents, many of whom are fired up over the notion of turning over their local schools to outside charters.

Washington became the 42nd state to approve the independent public schools in November, when voters authorized the opening of up to 40 charter schools over five years.

The Legislature passed a charter school law during the last session that allows for the creation of five schools in the entire state next year, and a total of up to 45 charter schools over six years.

Over 150 parents, teachers and community members showed up at the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers offices on Tuesday night to see a free screening of Backpack Full of Cash, the documentary about the growth of the charter industry in the U.S. Pittsburgh has a growing charter sector, with about 11 % of students attending charter schools.

By a slim margin, Washington voters have approved Initiative 1240, which will allow up to 40 charter schools to open here over the next five years.

The measure would have authorized the creation of up to 45 charter schools over six years.

Reality: In Compton, the charter operator, Celerity, ended up opening a school near McKinley rather than taking it over.

Washington voters in November approved a charter school initiative, allowing for the formation of up to 40 charter schools in the state over the next five years.

Initiative 1240, which in Thursday night vote totals was leading with 51 percent approval, allows for as many as 40 charter schools — eight per year, set up over the next five years.

Thelma Ellis Dickerson, of course, was Michael Sharpe's mother and the founder of Jumoke — so, while employed by Dickerson's son, and after propping up charter schools and shilling for Malloy's ed reform bill (which handed public schools over to operations such as Jumoke / FUSE), Simpson gets an award?

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The initiative allows up to 40 charter schools created over a five - year period in Washington, or an average of eight per year.

North Carolina public education backers are fired up this week over a new round of advocacy at the N.C. General Assembly that seems geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.

The charter school decision stems from a November 2012 vote to allow up to 40 new charter schools in Washington over five years.

Former Office of Charter Schools director Joel Medley, who recently announced his departure in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applicCharter Schools director Joel Medley, who recently announced his departure in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter appliccharter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter appliccharter applications.

Los Angeles charter schools and parents mobilized in force for over two months leading up to the board vote on November 13.

Allow a maximum of up to 40 public charter schools to be established over a five - year period as independently - managed public schools operated only by qualified non-profit organizations approved by the state;

in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.

Over the last school year, charter school enrollment was up 10 percent citywide, while public school enrollment barely jumped one percent.

Wall Street has generally been reluctant to buy up debt from charter schools, at least in part over concerns that funding can fluctuate and that an authorizing agency could terminate an operating agreement without regard to the terms of a bond.

Henry specifically cited the achievement school district (ASD) model that Tennessee is using, which allows private charter school operators to take over public schools, fire the teachers and principals, and use their own school management approaches to try to bring students» academic proficiency rates up into the top quartile of the state's public schools.

Arizona charter schools now make up about 30 % of public schools in the state and serve over 180,000 students.

California's charter school movement, which has been up and running for over a decade, has had more time to work for these students.

You may have noticed a vigorous debate here in the columns and comment sections of the NewsJunkie, as well as the Mirror over proposals to open up more charter schools in Connecticut.

A timely bill in 2010 would also allow Maine's participation in the Federal Charter School Grant Program, which awards 3 year grants of over $ 450,000 for planning and start - up expenses for each chartered public program.

One of Dropout Nation «s constant bits of advice to President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan over the past two years has been to open up the Race to the Top school reform initiative to participation by school districts, charter schools, and community groups.

This year, the Legislature approved a modest plan that allows for creation of up to 45 charter schools over a six - year period.

Referendum 55 on the Nov. 2 ballot asks Washington voters to allow the creation of up to 45 publicly funded charter schools in the state over the next six years.

The over 1,200 students who filled up all eight public charter schools that opened this fall are clearly proof of this demand.

When PUC Schools opened the first start - up public charter school in the San Fernando Valley in 1999, I never imagined we would be at the forefront of a movement that has grown to 274 charter schools in Los Angeles, serving over 138,000 students and thousands of students being the firsSchools opened the first start - up public charter school in the San Fernando Valley in 1999, I never imagined we would be at the forefront of a movement that has grown to 274 charter schools in Los Angeles, serving over 138,000 students and thousands of students being the firsschools in Los Angeles, serving over 138,000 students and thousands of students being the first in...