Sentences with phrase «green dot takes»

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.

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 in 2008.

The union lawsuit also contests the district's decision to let Green Dot take over a portion of Jordan High in Watts, raising the same legal objections.

At Locke, Green Dot took the risk of operating under the same conditions that hobble many public schools — accepting all the students within the attendance boundaries, whether or not they wanted a charter school, would follow its rules or even understood what the change was about.

Not exact matches

Green Dot began working with Wal - Mart, the biggest U.S. retailer, in 2007 and the new contract took effect on May 1, according to the statement.

Mark Levine contrasts the Green Dot model with the controversial Success Academy approach of Eva Moskowitz, whom he criticizes as «unnecessarily hostile and critical towards traditional schools,» adding that «the tone she takes towards unions is misguided.»

Magnify your target up to sixteen times and take advantage of the 1/4 - inch fingertip resettable windage and elevation adjustment function.A red dot laser and light and a detachable green laser help you hone in on fast - moving targets at up to 500 meters.

Enzymes and other proteins (blue and green dots) that prevent inbreeding are taken up by pollen tubes (outlined in light blue) and released when inbreeding is imminent.

Each colored dot represents the abundance of that protein family (measured on a logarithmic scale) for a particular fecal sample taken from a healthy person (green dots) or a person with IBD (red, blue, purple dots).

So, if I take this standard position with the BOSU Elite squat, for me the most comfortable, not necessarily with my heels almost together, I have a little room, but I'm still focusing on those green dots.

I decided to try something TOTALLY different than I usually do at home... I wanted to give the «bold patterns» AND «neons» trend a try and so I painted my nails with the Chills & Thrills color and then took the end of a bobby pin and put neon green polka dots on top of the blue with the Vices Versa color!

takes her love of colored denim to new heights with mint green stovepipes — and a peak of Happy Socks dot socks!

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Stryer has taken a leave from teaching to promote that idea around the country as director of new unionism for Future Is Now Schools, formerly Green Dot America.

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.

Also onboard is Marshall Tuck, former president and chief operating officer of Green Dot Public Schools, which has built a chain of charter schools in the district while organizing a parents» «union» and constantly pushing district officials to take bolder steps to improve the performance of children from poor families.

In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.

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 District.

Green Dot would argue that the scores are low because it is taking students from the most academically deprived parts of the city, which is undeniably true.

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 schools.

Though discipline and safety at Locke improved quickly, it will take a few years to see whether Green Dot's reforms result in more graduations and higher test scores.

Yesterday, I took a look at median teacher salaries in LAUSD and two prominent LA charters: Green Dot and Alliance College Ready.

At once they had lost their familiar identity in the halls of Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in Los Angeles and taken on instead the weight of becoming the first graduates in the 10 - year history of the Green Dot school to reach the Ivy League.

A graduate of Harvard's business school, he spent five years leading Green Dot Public Schools, a Los Angeles charter school operator, and six years as CEO of a nonprofit founded by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that took control of 17 poorly performing public schools.

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.

About one - third of Green Dot's more than 500 teachers took part in crafting the evaluation method.

Washington Post's Challenge Index measures which schools provide most opportunity for students to take tough courses that help prepare them for college LOS ANGELES — Six Green Dot Public Schools high schools are among the top 2 % most challenging to their students in the country, according to the Challenge Index, a survey by the Washington...

Zimmer noted that the school board took a «leap of faith» in approving Green Dot charter renewals and said their two schools on this state list indicate «this should green - light more collaboration and I hope that it won't be punitive, and would be a lot of engagement.&rGreen Dot charter renewals and said their two schools on this state list indicate «this should green - light more collaboration and I hope that it won't be punitive, and would be a lot of engagement.&rgreen - light more collaboration and I hope that it won't be punitive, and would be a lot of engagement.»

In a broken education system where outcomes are most unequal for low - income and minority youth, Green Dot is founded on the premise that tomorrow's youth must possess «Ànimo», and we are willing to do what it takes to ensure all students are prepared for college, leadership and life.

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.

Just as our students, families and staff fought for our schools to stay open, Green Dot will make our voices heard and let lawmakers know they must take additional action now to fully fund Washington state's public schools and properly address the McCleary lawsuit.

Green Dot Public Schools, which manages nine high schools in Los Angeles and Inglewood, has online credit recovery programs but does not centrally track how many students are taking them.

If you take all of the unduplicated suspensions that Green Dot reported, they account for 11.8 % of all suspended students in the district, even though they serve about 1.4 % of the student population.

While it also offers credit recovery, like Green Dot it does not centrally track how many students are taking the courses.

Instead of building its own schools, Green Dot's model involves taking control of pre-existing schools, and implementing their own policies and practices.

After showing its success with Locke, Green Dot has taken on the transformation of Jordan High School and Henry Clay Middle School, both former Los Angeles Unified School District low - performing schools.

I hope that you will not only take Jacks» advice and give teachers the «green light» to connect the dots on comprehensive learning and well - being, but also share this magazine resource with them to build a stronger instructional team.

Green Dot Schools use a «Matrix for Suspension / Expulsion Recommendations,» categorizing offenses and the necessary actions to be taken by the school thereafter.

At this point most phones (let alone dedicated cameras) are capable of taking pictures over 10 megapixels — that is, ten million little collections of red, green, and blue dots.

These were Portfolio Armor's top 10 names as of November 16th: Align (ALGN), PayPal (PYPL), Cognex (CGNX), Nvidia (NVDA), Trex (TREX), Green Dot (GDOT), Interactive Brokers (IBKR), Take - Two Interactive (TTWO), Alibaba (BABA), and Monarch Casino (MCRI).

Each shield is represented by a green dot and a corresponding horizontal energy bar — taking damage depletes the bar, which when empty cancels out one of the shield dots.

Yes, our federal Minister of Natural Resources has publicly acknowledged that once you connect the dots and take a step back so that the big picture comes into focus, the green activist agenda is rather alarming:

Instead of the previous symbol, which is two oblong rectangles sandwiching a square over a blue circle, the new icon takes the shape of an abstract «W.» It's crafted out of two slashes and two dots, all in the typical Google blue, yellow, green and red colours.

• Ask for personal information that does not relate to your license renewal (such as your credit card number or bank account number) • Demand immediate payment on fines that are not yet due • Ask for or accept prepaid cards such as Green Dot MoneyPak • Offer to alter a disciplinary order that has already been entered by the Board • Ask for or take payments over the phone

On a positive note I remember Germany having some sort of a Green Dot system where stores had to take back their own packaging.