Sentences with phrase «with charter school expansion»

The issue of declining enrollment has been a hot topic in the past few months, especially with the charter school expansion plan that has been proposed.

This is even evident in municipalities that have been booming with charter school expansion.

If costs associated with charter school expansion are not mitigated, the district will eventually face financial insolvency.

RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI - Today the Senate voted 24 - 21 to concur with the charter school expansion that previously passed the House and send the legislation to the Governor.

Press Release: Senate Sends Charter School Legislation To Governor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 7, 2016 RIDGELAND, MISSISSIPPI — Today the Senate voted to concur with the charter school expansion that previously passed the House and send the legislation to the Governor.

Not exact matches

On one side: Former NYC Councilwoman and charter school operator Eva Moskowitz, who is furious with NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for reversing co-location decisions by his predecessor, former Mayor Bloomberg, that would have allowed for the expansion of three schools operated by her Success Academy network.

The Senate had sought to extend mayoral control with an expansion of charter schools — a provision viewed as untenable for Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

While appointing an education board with an aligned agenda, Lavine could, as mayor, leverage her authority over the budget to implement an expansion of charter schools.

Families for Excellent Schools fought with the de Blasio administration over charter expansion and was a close ally of Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz.

But it also puts Cuomo at odds with Assembly Democrats, who have been generally opposed to charter school expansion.

Generally, charter supporters are upset with the mayor for being against the expansion of charter schools.

The Trump administration wants to invest in an unprecedented expansion of private - school vouchers and charter schools, prompting critics to worry that certain private or parochial schools might expel LGBT students or refuse to admit students with disabilities.

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.

That expansion would turn her network from a formidable sector within the Department of Education to a complete alternative school system in New York City, comparable to the nation's largest charter networks and a constant force for City Hall to reckon with.

New York City's largest and most polarizing charter school network, Success Academy, is applying for its biggest expansion yet, with plans to open 14 new charter schools in the next two years, a spokeswoman for the network announced on Tuesday.

Eva Moskowitz founded Success Academy Charter Schools and has clashed with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the expansion of her Schools and has clashed with Mayor Bill de Blasio over the expansion of her schoolsschools

On Saturday, LaborPress caught up with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.

Teachers and students echoed similar sentiments, with many arguing that the proposed space for the charter school could be used for P.S. 297's expansion.

Moskowitz, who has become an unofficial — and controversial — spokeswoman for New York City's growing charter sector, spoke about a wide range of topics, including her network's expansion, her philosophy on schooling, and her troubled relationship with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Though Cuomo and de Blasio are both Democrats, they have differing philosophies on education, with Cuomo supporting the so - called education reform movement and supporting the expansion of charter schools.

The decade between 1999 and 2009 saw a dramatic expansion in CMO schools, with increases of approximately 20 percent per year, a higher growth rate than seen by independent charter schools, according to a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research.

The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in high - poverty areas to attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.

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As much as Villaraigosa — and the school superintendent with whom he is allied — have appeared committed to rapid charter school expansion, when the L. A. school board took decisive action in February, charters were forced to settle for much less than they expected.

Though strong expansion continues in places like California and Florida, the 2006 — 07 school year saw 26 states open five or fewer new schools, while 5 states — because of closures — began the school year with fewer charters than they had the year before.

With all this evidence apparently stacked against charter schools, it seems downright responsible of the AFT to call for a moratorium on further charter school expansion «until more convincing evidence of their effectiveness and viability is presented.»

cohort IV student Landon Mascareñaz, who had previously worked with the charter school as an executive director at Teach For America in New Mexico, thought the project of NACA's expansion would be a perfect fit the yearlong Ed.L.D.

In this view, public schools will struggle to meet the higher standards — and not receive the resources with which to do so — and this will open the door to the expansion of charter schools, private - school voucher programs, and online virtual learning.

With the charter - expansion question a settled issue, at least for now, leaders of the No on 2 campaign say they want the education debate to turn to funding of schools statewide.

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The dramatic expansion of charter schools in urban areas has provided families with tuition - free alternatives to district schools, making it difficult for tuition - dependent Catholic schools to compete.

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.

Yet Phil Murphy — along with every one of his Democratic contenders in this month's primary election — has called for a cessation of charter school expansion, despite tens of thousands of families clamoring for relief.

Over the last three years, we have worked closely with the Albertson Foundation and partners like Building Hope, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping charter schools develop high - quality facilities, to support the expansion of some of the best charter public schools in the state.

But when he co-wrote an op - ed with New York City Chancellor Joel Klein advocating for ending restrictions on the expansion of the charter school movement, everyone has to take notice.

Expressing concern about the feasibility to do just that, State Board member Wayne McDevitt ran through a lengthy list of all of the oversight and monitoring responsibilities that are placed on the shoulders of a very understaffed Office of Charter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litiCharter Schools, which include dealing with exploding charter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even liticharter school numbers and their associated acquisitions, renewals, revocations, expansions, replications and even litigation.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

States are furthering their expansion by launching state agencies charged with authorizing those schools (as well as allowing universities, city goverments and other institutions to authorize them) has also helped expand the presence of charters.

Building Hope supports the expansion of successful charter school organizations with the capacity to grow their enrollments in order to catalyze change across the public education system.

SDUSD had their first charter board meeting of this school year with three charter issues; a Special Education MOU, a material revision for a grade expansion for O'Farrell Community School and a public hearing for San Diego Global Visions (SDGVA) to add a middle sschool year with three charter issues; a Special Education MOU, a material revision for a grade expansion for O'Farrell Community School and a public hearing for San Diego Global Visions (SDGVA) to add a middle sSchool and a public hearing for San Diego Global Visions (SDGVA) to add a middle schoolschool.

The NAACP in 2011 filed a lawsuit with the United Federation of Teachers to prevent the expansion of some New York City charter schools, which are now driving the Empire State's educational progress.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

«CSDC and BH share a common commitment to increasing and supporting the creation and expansion of high - quality charter schools throughout the country, and we are very excited about our partnership with them in this new fund,» said Michelle Liberati, Executive Vice President of CSDC.

On tap for 2014: With the cap gone on the number of charter schools that can exist in the state, expect more charter operators to look toward North Carolina as fertile ground for expansion efforts.

CSDC Direct offers a variety of loan products that provide charter schools — especially new schools with little or no operating or credit history, and those serving low - income communities — with affordable financing options for the acquisition, construction, renovation and expansion of educational facilities.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

He adds, «Rocketship Education, a charter school network near San Francisco, with national expansion plans, is reinventing how learning takes place in the classroom, asking its students to spend 25 percent of each day in a «learning lab,» where they work on customized, computer - delivered material.

In Newark, N.J., support for public charter schools is overwhelming, with 71 percent of respondents supporting expansion of the sector.

But charter schools and the parental choice movement that goes along with them have also become rallying cries for conservative groups and the Tea Party movement that's praised the business - like approach to education and want to see a larger expansion of the schools.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.