Sentences with phrase «war with charter»

A couple of decades ago, you would not have seen teachers unions and other groups intent on preserving the educational status quo bother to go to war with charter schools.

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After the Civil War, private banks with federal charters (the «National Banks») continued to issue notes into the 1930s.

Indeed the World Wars were fought with such shockingly genocidal, and horrendously homicidal terror that nations, vanquished and victors, resolved to set up by a noble charter for the United Nations, followed by the triple instruments constituting the Magna Carta of Mankind.

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

Levy, who chartered a plane to be in Sullivan County during a number of stops, said he was the only Republican in the field with a $ 5 million war chest and executive experience.

«Now they have rolled over for Andrew Cuomo, the latest son seeking to inherit his father's former office, who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

Kermit the Frog: who refuses to make Wall Street and the rich pay their fair share of taxes, who intends to make war with the public employees union, supports expanding the financial waste of charter schools and wants to impose caps on public spending.

The Senate GOP is going to pay dearly for its war on public schools and public school teachers and its love affair with charter schools and charter school campaign contributions.

He has long been at war with teacher unions and his handling of school aid and pushing charter schools have brought opposition from school districts as well as teacher unions.

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill de Blasio's first budget war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr. de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr. de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.

The race for the 30th SD (the Harlem district once represented by Gov. David Paterson) has become a proxy war over charter schools, with Perkins enjoying support from the teachers union.

Not surprisingly, NYSUT, which is already at war with the Senate and Paterson administration over charters and education spending cuts, has signaled it might not endorse in the governor's race this year.

With de Blasio and the UFT - financed Working Families Party as allies, the union is hijacking the very language of movement politics, annexing left journalism to defend its narrowest interests and even recruiting progressives to join its war against charter schools that work for kids.

Caputo - Pearl's goals mesh well with those of the district, and based on recent headlines, it would appear that the war against charters is succeeding in directing attention away from declining enrollment and rising debt.

Indeed, as a 2005 editorial in the Washington Post described charter school obstruction in Maryland, «It's guerilla turf war, with children caught in the middle.

A new book on charter schools and segregation, whose senior editor, Iris Rotberg, I first worked with in 1970 on the War on Poverty, has reminded me how tribally divided the policy research field has become.

Within the foxholes of New Jersey's charter school wars, the target de jour is special education, specifically the accusation by school - choice opponents that alternative public schools intentionally discriminate against children with special needs.

Just as relations between nations advance in fits and starts, with episodes of exchange, détente, isolationism, and war, we can expect all of the above as charters and districts play out their own form of geopolitics.

Ravitch analyzes the impact of choice on public schools, attempts to quantify quality teaching, and describes the data wars with advocates for charter and traditional public schools.

The teacher union war on charter schools ramps up with empty billionaire and accountability accusations.

Your weekend reading: NY Times magazine features big story on Mayor deBlasio's head - to - head war on charters with Eva Moskowitz http://nyti.ms/Zag4TD

Like the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about more than 55 years ago, the billionaires, the charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies want us to believe that providing children with the skills and knowledge to succeed and prosper in the 21st Century is nothing more than an opportunity to «wage war» and make money, all at the same time.

L.A. Unified school board members are scrutinizing charter petitions more closely and the teachers union is amassing a war chest to fight charter expansion, so now eyes are on how the pro-charter camp is going to proceed with its plan.

In the 12 years since a state law forcing districts to share facilities with charter schools took effect there are still turf wars but anecdotal evidence suggests the disputes are fewer and more often than not, beneficial relationships have instead replaced acrimony.

From the Nashville Scene «Those with the biggest war chests have something in common: a friendly, if not embracing, attitude toward charter schools.

Judges who found a Charter violation were seen as at war with lawmakers, trying to usurp their roles and overstepping their own.

Justice Lamer soundly rejected the sacrifice of Charter values to administrative efficiency but with an important caveat: such a s. 1 justification could only work «in cases arising out of exceptional conditions, such as natural disasters, the outbreak of war, epidemics, and the like.»