Sentences with phrase «jps school»

If the governor signs the «emergency» resolution from the state board, he will dissolve the JPS School Board of Trustees and install Dr. Margie Pulley as interim superintendent, ousting Murray.

The Sept. 19 JPS School Board meeting was eerily empty, save a large number of district officials.

Not exact matches

This year JPS California will be taking two High School Senior Teams, one each from Northern and Southern California, to compete against America Samoa

For JPS, a declining student body is nothing new - and is certainly not something that can be blamed on charter schools.

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We believe that the children who remain in Jackson Public Schools (JPS) are every bit as deserving as the children who left JPS to transfer to an authorized public charter school.

If you include the children who enrolled at Smilow Prep, 95 percent of students returned to a RePublic school while no one went back to JPS.

A 2016 BOTEC study on crime in the city of Jackson and JPS, however, reported that underfunding means schools have difficulty implementing PBIS with district - wide fidelity.

The lawsuit also says that with the addition of a third school charter school, Smilow Prep, that opened this fall, the amount of money sent to charter schools by the JPS could be as much as $ 4 million.

October looms ahead for JPS, as the Commission on School Accreditation is set to meet on the 17th and could vote on whether or not to remove the district's accreditation status.

If the Commission votes to remove JPS» accreditation, students are free to transfer to neighboring school districts that will take them.

JPS received an «F» grade in the 2016 accountability rankings, and preliminary data from MDE, used against the district during the Commission on School Accreditation meeting this month, show that the district will receive an «F» in October as well.

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba sits in on the Commission on School Accreditation meeting on Sept. 13 where it voted JPS is in an «extreme emergency.»

If Bryant chooses to sign the resolution declaring an «extreme emergency» in JPS, the district will lose local control and access to their schools immediately.

JPS, on the contrary, has almost 27,000 students by last year's count (enrollment is down, however, and that number is closer to 25,000 - 26,000 this school year).

If a child leaves JPS to enroll in a charter school, the state and federal money follows her, but the local money disappears.

The first half of the school year hasn't been smooth sailing for JPS with an audit that resulted in probation, a rejected corrective action plan to get off probation, a failing grade as a district and the abrupt departure of former superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray.

JPS as a whole is rated «F.» Like the 18 other failing school districts in the state, it serves mostly black students.

Last year, JPS was under - funded by about $ 11.5 mil during the last school year, while the conservative state leaders have continually changed laws and regulations to make it easier to privatize public dollars (i.e. charter, vouchers, tax credits), starting with 3 charter schools in Jackson.

Until recently, Freddrick Murray was the chief academic officer of high schools in JPS.

«It's no accident these are «A schools» with high - performing students and faculty,» JPS Board of Trustees President Beneta Burt said.

The state of Mississippi is moving to take over the Jackson Public School District (JPS).

«We will have more schools to join your celebration tour,» said Dr. William Merritt IV, chief academic officer for elementary schools in JPS.