Sentences with phrase «recovery school district took»

At this point, Lewis is being called upon to do nothing short of bringing the city back together, 10 years after the state Recovery School District took over four fifths of the city's schools.

So the creation of the Recovery School District took an already deeply troubled system and cleaved off the worst - performing schools.

After Katrina, the state Recovery School District took control of the city's schools, many of which were failing.

When the Recovery School District takes over a failing school, responsibility and maintenance of that school's campus goes with it.

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In Louisiana, the state takes over the worst schools and puts them into its Recovery School District.

After Hurricane Katrina struck, he championed plans for the state to take over most of the schools in New Orleans under the Recovery School District, which oversees 37 schools now operating in the city, including some charters.

The Washington - based center took at look at how school districts have spent money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the economic - stimulus law passed by Congress last year.

Lastly, extraordinary authority bodies, like the Recovery School District, can take away a district's schools and either directly manage or convert them to charterDistrict, can take away a district's schools and either directly manage or convert them to charterdistrict's schools and either directly manage or convert them to charter status.

In doing so, education leaders must also decide whether to transfer the schools to the state - run Recovery School District, which took over most of the public schools in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

Recovery, Achievement, Opportunity, Transformation: these are the titles and aspirations of statewide «turnaround» school districts whose mission is to take over failing public schools and move them quickly to an acceptable range of performance.

More than one hundred low - performing schools were placed under the jurisdiction of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD), which was created in 2003 to take over and reverse the fortunes of chronically disappointing public schools throughout the state.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

The final grade a student receives after taking a credit recovery course depends on the rules and regulations of the sponsor school's district.

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Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cSchool District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cschool choice.

Currently, the Recovery district can take control of a failing school after four years without consulting families at all.

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By then, the state - run Recovery School District had taken control of five of the city's poorly performing schools from their locally elected leaders.

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The Recovery School District will choose contractors for the $ 23.7 million project this spring, and construction will take 26 months, with the goal of the school returning to its home in the fall of 2015, officialsSchool District will choose contractors for the $ 23.7 million project this spring, and construction will take 26 months, with the goal of the school returning to its home in the fall of 2015, officialsschool returning to its home in the fall of 2015, officials said.

And now he has taken the reins of the much smaller, but deeply troubled Recovery School District in New Orleans.

Schools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - PiSchools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Picayune.

At the behest of Recovery School District officials, Einstein is taking over Intercultural Charter School, an F - rated school currently serving 425 stuSchool District officials, Einstein is taking over Intercultural Charter School, an F - rated school currently serving 425 stuSchool, an F - rated school currently serving 425 stuschool currently serving 425 students.

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Most are part of the Recovery School District, which took over low - performing schools and encompasses most of the schools in New Orleans.

High - performing charter schools in the Recovery School District — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee out of their federal grants if they return to the district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of TDistrict — such as Sophie B. Wright, Lafayette Academy and several KIPP campuses in Uptown — are concerned that the Orleans Parish School Board will take an administrative fee out of their federal grants if they return to the district, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of Tdistrict, amid broader issues of trust and autonomy, reports Jessica Williams of The Lens.

In 2013, Einstein took over a failing Recovery School District charter, Intercultural Charter School.

The board had cautioned over using the OneApp system out of concern that it might take longer to get a firm enrollment projection from the Recovery School District than if the school is directly in charge of applicaSchool District than if the school is directly in charge of applicaschool is directly in charge of applications.

Walter L. Cohen High School is slated to be gradually taken over by NOLA College Prep over the next two years, one of nine struggling Recovery School District campuses around the city to be placed under control of a new charter operator, officials said this week.

The Louisiana Recovery School District announced Tuesday (Feb. 24) that InspireNOLA will take over Wilson, after seven groups applied for the assignment.

Louisiana created the state - run Recovery School District to take over failing schools shortly before Katrina.

Partly for this reason, the Recovery School District (RSD) took over most public schools in New Orleans after the storm.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application failed to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application fails to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.

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Since then the lowest performing schools have been taken over by Recovery School District Superintendent, Paul Vallas, a big supporter of the Charter movement.