Sentences with phrase «with public and charter»

With public and charter schools both competing for the same public funds, politicians and educators have come to rely even more on standardized test scores.

«Unless it includes the test results of every student in the private school, it will not be a true reflection of their success nor a real comparison with the public and charter schools,» Kussow said.

The data also allows for a direct comparison with public and charter schools.

Not exact matches

We can all agree that Fannie and Freddie as business models were seriously flawed — private companies with a public charter, poor incentives for management, excess leverage for their book of credit risk, and so forth — and they are rightly being effigized for it.

«The state and city used Katrina to wipe away the dysfunction and corruption in the school system,» Medberry says, referring to the city's charter school initiative, which largely replaced public schools with privately operated institutions after 2005.

In a PRIVATE club with membership and a charter you may conduct yourself as you see fit, but in a place of public accomadation run by an organization that takes public monies and pays no taxes that action would be considered at best unethical and at worst illegal.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

The objectives of the Charter of Medina provide a suitable framework for national constitutions in countries with Muslim majorities, and the United Nations Charter and related documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are in harmony with the Charter of Medina, including consideration for public order.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Seventy percent of the respondents to a survey conducted by the Williamsburg Charter Foundation (a non-sectarian organization concerned with religion and public life) said, «Religion has a place in public life.»

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

From Men in Blazers: America SCORES is non-profit organization that promotes football and poetry with students at more than 175 public and charter schools across North America.

Can public charter teachers take on the mantle of the Waldorf teacher with its demanding, yet rich inner life and equally demanding active outer life?

Our numbers have expanded to 45 known schools and initiatives, and we've started to see the Public Waldorf Education impulse move from its spiritual home in the West towards its historical roots in the East... with a few stops in between: schools based on the principles of Public Waldorf Educationwere granted charters in Colorado, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Florida this year and are set to open in the fall.

With over 160 private schools and over 40 public charter schools now in North America the need for trained Waldorf teachers continues to grow.

As a public charter school, we meet Arizona State Standards and testing requirements, and comply with health and safety regulations and educational laws applicable to Arizona Charter Scharter school, we meet Arizona State Standards and testing requirements, and comply with health and safety regulations and educational laws applicable to Arizona Charter SCharter Schools.

J.O. then finds one LAUSD school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a public charter school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the school kitchen and instead is assigned to work with a group of culinary students.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

This success is due in part to the D.C. Healthy Schools Act of 2010, which requires school breakfast to be provided at no charge for all students in D.C. Public Schools and D.C. Public Charter Schools, and it requires schools with at least 40 percent of their students certified for free and reduced price school meals to implement a breakfast after the bell model that moves breakfast out of the school cafeteria and makes it more accessible and a part of the regular school day.

In North America alone, over 250 schools are affiliated with the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America and several public charter schools use Waldorf methods to enrich their teaching.

And there's really nothing wrong with charters, they give public schools competition which betters them.

John Flanagan and his Albany cronies have sold out Long Island public schools and have cut a deal with high finance charter school operators to exchange millions in taxpayer dollars for campaign cash for Chris McGrath,» said Democratic Senate Campaign Committee spokesman Mike Murphy.

«When the charter industry begins serving students with special needs and English Language Learners at the same rate as traditional public schools, and cracks down on the fraud, mismanagement and abuse prevalent at so many charters, perhaps its leaders can then join our longstanding fight for the equitable funding that all kids need.»

The Senate GOP showed nothing but distain and disgust for public schools and teachers during its long love affair with the charters and their campaign contributions.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

Watch how educators from Brooklyn's Public School 369 and the New York Center for Autism Charter School are collaborating, with funding through a NYS Education Department Dissemination Grant.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

I found the argument made by Charter 88 persuasive that the Monarchy helped to legitimise the broader constitutional arrangements, and remove them from public and political scrutiny, with something of a taboo against debating either the Monarchy or the constitution.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

«We're for accountability in charter schools just as in traditional public schools and assume that most candidates who aren't bought and paid for by the for - profit charter school operators will agree with us,» said WFP spokesman Dan Levitan.

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.»]

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.

This is not the time to abandon our public schools - by undermining and helping to destroy them with private charter schools.

«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.

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

Nadya Miranda said officials of the charter school focused on defending the teacher and its public image, with little concern for her daughter's welfare.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

The Senate proposal would also bolster charter schools, with provisions to increase per - pupil tuition that public schools must pay to charters, guarantee that charter schools won't have to pay rent to use public school buildings, and allow charter schools to offer pre-kindergarten.

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says the union claims charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says NYSUT is claiming charter schools are «flush» with cash and do not need more public dollars.

Then, going after the charter supporters among board members, Rumore says it's not clear to him why they seem more concerned with charter schools than improving regular public schools and he says that's supposed to be what board members do.

The Fund for Great Public Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scPublic Schools, a teachers union backed SuperPAC has weigh in support of Senator Rivera, while New Yorkers for Independent Action have sided with CM Cabrera because of his strong support for charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial scpublic, private and parochial schools.

With little new education policy expected in the remainder of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term — and a quiet session on education concluding in Albany — the debate over traditional public schools versus charter schools has shifted to a new battleground: school safety.

Upset with a state Senate Republican budget plan to boost charter schools, the powerful city and state teachers union bombarded GOP senators last week with nearly 20,000 faxes and 1,500 phone calls warning the plan would damage neighborhood public schools.

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.