Sentences with phrase «replacing failing charter»

Behind the Headline Authorizers: See What Replacing Failing Charter Schools, Replicating Great Ones Can Do 3/19/13 Education Next

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If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

• 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.

While the plan has resulted in replacing failing and low - enrollment schools with charter schools and smaller campuses, it has also led to a surge in violence that has increasingly turned deadly, many activists, parents and students say.

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

The way the law works is that if 51 % of parents at a failing school sign a petition, they can turn the school into a charter school, replace the staff or simply use the petition as a bargaining chip to initiate a conversation about change.

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

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.

In some cities, authorizers and charter supporters have begun building the systems needed to replace failing schools and replicate great ones.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

Student funds from failing public schools would follow students to the charter public schools that replace them, just as student funds follow students when they move to another public school in the district.

In the last three years, as the director of Parent Revolution, Austin helped the state pass the nation's first parent trigger law, which offers parents options to improve consistently failing schools by shutting them down altogether, replacing the principal or staff, or conversion to a charter school.

The plan also embraces the federal emphasis on replacing staff at «failing» schools and converting some to independently run charter schools, most of which are non-union.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

They argue the money could be better spent on bringing innovations to traditional public schools, rather than picking «winners and losers» and propping up a specific few nonprofit charter operators, whose «schools of hope» could essentially replace failing neighborhood schools.

The endorsed slate of candidates were big supporters of Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to change the Bridgeport charter to do away with the democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

Teachers» unions have been historically and aggressively opposed to the Parent Trigger, which allows parents to replace a failing public school with a charter school.

But a failing school has yet to see its teaching / administrative staff replaced or its entire structure overhauled by a charter organization, as the Parent Trigger law allows.

One of the long - standing questions in the education reform movement has been why failing schools can't be revived rather than replaced by charters, to minimize disruptions for kids.

Based on this measure of achievement, some failing schools are shut down, and, in some cases, replaced by charter schools.

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.