Sentences with phrase «what charter school expansion»

E-mail your friends and family and let them know about HB 634 and what charter school expansion would mean.

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They have offices in six cities across the state, and now regularly advocate for an agenda that includes ending the school - to - prison pipeline, increasing funding for community schools and pre-kindergarten programs, and railing against the expansion of privately - run charter school networks, what Easton calls the «privatization» of public education.

Of the $ 200 million committed, nearly $ 90 million went towards teacher back - pay, staff incentives and buyouts, $ 58 million towards the expansion of charter schools and $ 21 million to consultants from what one teacher called the «school failure industry» — some charging $ 1000 a day for so - called «systems change.»

Merit pay, charter school expansion and more school accountability are not what the union has been advocating.

With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable practices around charter review.

What would be your position on school choice, including charter schools and their expansion, private schools, vouchers, and investment in inadequately staffed and facilitated low - income schools?

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cSchool District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cschool choice.

What Nashville Can Learn from New Orleans» will be an informative discussion about the real outcomes of charter school expansion.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

The Audubon Charter School community — parents, teachers and neighbors — got their first look Wednesday at what the Broadway campus will look like after expansion, even as officials continue to look for a temporary home for the Broadway students during the two - year construction project.

By Caroline Bermudez With the Los Angeles Board of Education poised to consider the expansion of another successful charter school at its March 8 meeting, parents demanding more choice deserve to know what is driving the district's questionable practices around charter review.

What has been equally pervasive but received less buzz and more muted pushback, according to Education Week, is a spate of other K - 12 reform laws that have enacted voucher programs, allowed for the expansion of charter schools and altered academic standards.

Last fall, the NAACP called for a moratorium on the expansion of school choice in the United States, viewing the charter sector as a threat to our hallowed system of public education — as though it's ever been what it claims to be for Black students and families — and drawing an inexplicable line in the sand between two parts of itself.

The No campaign «successfully connected charter school expansion to dark money and to a market - based ideological agenda,» revealing the Wall Street businessmen, conservatives, and New Yorkers that they argued were pouring money to dictate what's best for Massachusetts.

For me, however, what is most instructive in the report are the truly encouraging results in Washington, D. C. and the states of Tennessee and Indiana, all of which are pioneering in the measurement of growth in student achievement as a component of educator evaluation, compensation, and continuing employment; advancing charter school expansion; and remaining strongly committed to other elements of accountability for student learning.