Sentences with phrase «other failed charters»

Other failed charters, of course, have absorbed much more in public funds.

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Jackson's story is similar to that of several other Success Academy families who are alleging that the charter network fails to provide reasonable accommodations to help students with learning disabilities.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Failing to gain any traction within the de Blasio administration or with other city - based elected officials, charter leaders quickly shifted their advocacy efforts up to Albany, where they hoped for a more receptive audience.

Bloomberg also staked out other stands sharply at variance with those of the teacher's union, calling for merit pay, an increase in charter schools and shutting down more schools he considers failing.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

It will change not because the feds will continue investigating discrimination against these children, as they found recently in a virtual Ohio charter, but because the smarter charter and virtual operators will find that they can succeed with special needs kids when others have failed.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

And now she's planning to repurpose chronically failing schools and recruit successful charters to occupy others, part of her new restructuring plan called «One Newark.»

Some charter schools have failed and been closed and others will meet the same fate.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Conversely other types of charter and private schools in choice programs fail to improve test scores but yield large gains in later life outcomes.

California's new «parent trigger» law allows parents at a failing school to vote to turn the school into a charter, to replace the staff, or to force other changes.

Should charters be held to enrollment standards that other schools can not meet, while districts continue to practice questionable policies such as the warehousing of special need students in select placements (while often failing to follow - though on their obligations for services, we might add)?

Other charter school measures failed in 1996 and 2000.

Eventually, if the school kept failing, it was at risk of having its staff fired or having the school closed, handed over to state control or private management, or turned into a charter school or «any other major restructuring.»

But if these same failing schools were located in Center City or Chestnut Hill, does anyone doubt that the wealthy residents of these neighborhoods would choose charters or any other better option for their children?

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

They are the re-democratization of the public school, returning education to its roots in the family and the community, where schools that abuse their charter or fail to perform can be shut down or will simply wither away as parents leave them for other options.

Magnolia also has come under scrutiny after the Turkish government accused it and other U.S. - based charters with Turkish governing boards of helping foment a failed July coup in Turkey.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states.

In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a charter school and the teachers union fights against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and more school choice.

Despite two decades of charter - school growth, the state's overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth - and eighth - grade math and fourth - grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the «Nation's Report Card.»

While they've made academic gains in struggling communities, KIPP and other large charter networks have come under fire recently for high student attrition rates, discipline issues and failing to meet states» standards.

First, charters might take over failing schools in which disadvantaged students are concentrated, and succeed where other approaches have not.

Predictably, Speaker Corcoran's controversial priority «Schools of Hope / High Impact Charters» will get $ 200 million to entice charter school operators in other states to compete with chronically failing schools, according to...

You get schools to «fail» by setting up ridiculous benchmarks (such as «No Child Left Behind» and now «Common Core»); and then when the school has failed, you take it out of local control and turn it over to charter school companies and other «reformers.»

While some of these students might benefit from the flexible learning environment offered by virtual charter schools, others will continue to fail if they don't have anyone to help guide their studies.

Although a few charters have failed to measure up, both districts are bracing for more of the schools to open in the coming school year, and others with long waiting lists are planning to expand.

Where many other schools have failed, Freire Charter School has achieved excellence for our children through a rigorous college preparatory program and a commitment to peace and nonviolence in our community — both within our walls and beyond.

In the case of Options Charter School in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxCharter School in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxcharter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpayers.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

In contrast to some other states with big charter sectors — notably Michigan, where DeVos just helped kill a proposed state law that would have made it easier to close failing charter schools — Louisiana has been relatively aggressive in shaping the available options, repeatedly closing charters that underperform.

Charter schools here typically come up for review after four years, and if they're still considered «failing» based on the proportion of students passing state exams and a few other factors, they can be closed or offered up to another group.

Other top charter lobbyists issued statements saying the NAACP let down the grassroots, but failed to reveal that the moratorium critics they cited were organized by industry - funded groups.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

ConnCAN not only wrote a proposal shockingly identical to this bill, the charter lobby also sponsored a «forum» for legislators in 2015 where it invited Ms. Lott of the failed Milner school and others, such as the deputy superintendent of Lawrence to speak to legislators.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

«Charter schools can and must be part of a larger statewide solution to improving persistently failing schools in Buffalo and other districts.

Tens of thousands of students live in what Jitu Brown has described as «school deserts,» because their districts have been devastated by failed policies such as mass school closures, the proliferation of charter schools, and other privatization schemes.

Charters are the prime example of how school «choice» undermines constitutional notions of equality, as they often increase segregation, fail to serve English Language Learners, students with disabilities and other vulnerable children, and impose disproportionately harsh discipline on children of color.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

And for the past year, Governor Charlie Baker has failed to gain legislative approval to create «innovation zones» in which a select group of schools within a district would gain charter - school - like flexibility to extend school days and get around other teacher contract provisions.

When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.

But Achievement First and other charter schools fail to educate a student body that fairly represents the diversity of their communities.

Less than 10 percent of charters had reading gains that failed to outperform other public schools.

• National charter school chains or other educational organizations charged with running persistently failing public schools