Sentences with phrase «public school boards struggle»

Public school boards struggle over whether instruction should be didactic or discovery - based, and schools of both stripes compose the private school market.

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He is a public school parent, he was a school board member, he really understands the lives of people who are struggling and need help from Washington,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The city Department of Education is breaking state law by moving to shutter one of its struggling Bronx Renewal Schools without a vote from the local education board, Public Advocate...

Buffalo, NY — The Buffalo Board of Education has approved an offer by M & T Bank President Robert Wilmers to pay for a national search for a new superintendent for the city's struggling public school district.

Encourage boards of struggling schools to consider restart as part of school improvement planning by emphasizing the board's public obligation, discussing restart as a viable and welcomed alternative to incremental change or closure, and setting clear performance criteria.

«The bill charts a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them, paving the way for struggling schools to be converted to privately run charter schools unanswerable to locally elected school boards and taxpayers,» she said.

Parent Trigger or «Parent Empowerment,» depends on professional lobbyists and outside forces to persuade 51 % of the parents in a struggling school to «pull the trigger,» and transfer a valuable public asset from the jurisdiction of a duly elected school board into the hands of a proprietary corporation.

Sixty - two years after the landmark Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision that desegregated America's public schools, the education system is still struggling with a number of issues in classrooms, including segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, improving high school graduation rates, and college enrollment and persistence.

They struggle with the public's lack of understanding regarding their local school board's purpose, but maintain the public's support for local education governance.

Carrie Hillyard, who leads the turnaround team Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation leaders created to assist five struggling district schools, speaks to State Board of Education members at a public hearing on the future of Glenwood Leadership Academy.

According to a plan under consideration by the board of Santa Fe Public Schools, the district would eliminate the D grade from its scale and force struggling students to shoot for at least a «C.» Board member Steve Carrillo introduced the proposal this month and said the plan is modeled after ones adopted in school districts in New Jeboard of Santa Fe Public Schools, the district would eliminate the D grade from its scale and force struggling students to shoot for at least a «C.» Board member Steve Carrillo introduced the proposal this month and said the plan is modeled after ones adopted in school districts in New JeBoard member Steve Carrillo introduced the proposal this month and said the plan is modeled after ones adopted in school districts in New Jersey.

«Historical data indicates that making AYP under NCLB has been a significant struggle for Pennsylvania charter schools, with a consistently lower percentage of charter schools making AYP than traditional public schools,» the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, which also filed a legal brief in protest of the change, said in a statement.

«Miami - Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and members of the school board needed convincing that a KIPP location in Miami would mirror the network's success in other places, not its struggles in Jacksonville.

Federal education policy will continue to follow the whims of the richest people in the world — people who did not attend public schools and would never dream of sending their children to one — until the opt out movement joins with other social justice struggles to fundamentally shift the balance of power away from the executive board room and towards the classroom.

As many school districts dismiss the necessity for art in public schools, many art therapists may feel it is a struggle to get a community on board.