Sentences with phrase «dot took over the school»

Despite union and district efforts to overturn the vote, the Green Dot supporters succeeded, and after a year of transition, in which there was a good deal of disorder, Green Dot took over the school, with a new principal and new teachers.

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Steve Barr, a progressive political activist who had founded Green Dot, had his eye on taking over and remaking a large urban high school.

Russo, an experienced education journalist, received a Spencer Foundation Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia to write this book, which covers the story of Green Dot, of its efforts to take over an inner - city high school, and of its first year managing Locke, with briefer coverage of its second year.

Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inSchool, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool district in 2008.

Green Dot is best known for taking over Locke High School, the first time a charter organization had taken over a traditional, low - performing school in the L.A. Unified School DisSchool, the first time a charter organization had taken over a traditional, low - performing school in the L.A. Unified School Disschool in the L.A. Unified School DisSchool District.

The following fall, after a bitter battle, charter operator Green Dot Public Schools took over Locke.

When Green Dot Public Schools took over Locke High School a year ago, the thinking was that a well - run charter might prove an instructive model for improving Los Angeles» public sSchools took over Locke High School a year ago, the thinking was that a well - run charter might prove an instructive model for improving Los Angeles» public schoolsschools.

In a few isolated cases, failing schools were taken over by charter organizations, such as Green Dot in L.A. and Mastery Charters in Philadelphia.

Green Dot, for example, operates almost exclusively in low income, high need areas, and has taken over control of some of the district's most struggling schools.