Sentences with phrase «struggling schools address»

8,000 Fewer NJ Students Missing Too Much School, but More Work Needed Assembly Bill Aims to Help Struggling Schools Address Chronic Absenteeism

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The key is not to get drawn into a power struggle with your child over school, but to address the underlying problem.

«Per this budget agreement the city will continue to play the primary role in determining the ways to best address those struggling schools,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia is asking the legislature for more money to address the state's struggling schools.

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

Facing increased pressure from parents and reform advocates to improve struggling schools, Chancellor Farina responded with a disappointing, over-hyped, political stunt that won't address the failing schools crisis.

We discuss her State of the City address, which includes her proposal to get more involved with struggling schools.

«Facing increased pressure from parents and reform advocates to improve struggling schools, Chancellor Farina responded with a disappointing, over-hyped, political stunt that won't address the failing schools crisis,» Sedlis said.

In his State of the State address on Jan. 21, Governor Andrew Cuomo tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget: individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel referenced the school's struggles during his keynote address, saying, «Politicians have decided which schools succeed and which don't.»

Collaboration with parents is vital to improving struggling schools, promoting educational equity, addressing the over emphasis on high - stakes testing, and increasing charter school accountability.»

Elia says that, «For far too many years, the Rochester City School District has struggled to address a myriad of issues relating to instruction and student support that have created impediments to student learning.»

Michael Mulgrew, UFT President After more than a decade working under the Bush - era No Child Left Behind Act, we finally have a chance to reverse the law's misguided federal mandates that dictate how states evaluate teachers and address struggling schools.

Not surprisingly, in his speech Cuomo did address Bloomberg's plan for the city to remove up to half the teachers from struggling schools — whether the union likes it or not and even if it costs the city millions of dollars.

Senate committee inquiries into NAPLAN in 2010 highlighted that the My School website allowed the government to identify disadvantage by discovering 110 struggling schools and addressing funding shortages.

Literacy needs of middle school readers are being targeted as achievement gaps and the pressure to address these gaps in struggling readers has increased since the implementation of a state - wide teacher evaluation rubric.

94, addresses these challenges, explores the struggles that are common among schools in high - risk communities, and presents research - based findings demonstrating that effective school leadership and a safe school climate are essential to improve student achievement.

Symonds believes that they're often able to make inroads with students who have struggled in other schools because they work to create a supportive environment addressing all of a child's needs, not just his or her academic needs.

As Congress considers the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, families and teachers in school districts that serve low - income students and students of color struggle to understand how to address the highly punitive, push - out climate of overtesting brought on by the No Child Left Behind Act, the ESEA's last reauthorization.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

Improving teaching quality is widely recognized as critical to addressing deficiencies in secondary school education, yet the field has struggled to identify rigorously evaluated teacher - development approaches that can produce reliable gains in student achievement.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

We have partnered with all types of schools, and we have special expertise working with underserved schools that serve high percentages of students with the most urgent needs: low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, or other challenges.

Dismissing studies that found that it had benefited students, de Blasio characterized Bloomberg's closure policy as «an excuse not to address ways to help struggling schools improve and meet our expectations that all students graduate ready for college or a career.»

In social studies, while rightly criticizing the tendency of earlier American citizenship educators to produce America - Firsters by teaching a sanitized, celebratory U.S. history, Giroux overcorrects in promoting a curriculum calculated to produce America - Worsters, focused on the country's warts, as schools serve as «sites of struggle that address the suffering... of the oppressed.»

Each state is required to develop its own plan to comply with the new federal law and address issues including school accountability, student assessment, support for struggling schools, and other issues.

School staff work with families through small team meetings to develop a support plan to assist academically struggling students through focused action plans, and SST teams create and implement strategies and supports to address academic needs, incorporating additional opportunities for academic support during and / or after the schooSchool staff work with families through small team meetings to develop a support plan to assist academically struggling students through focused action plans, and SST teams create and implement strategies and supports to address academic needs, incorporating additional opportunities for academic support during and / or after the schoolschool day.

Improving teaching quality is widely recognized as critical to addressing deficiencies in secondary school education, yet the field has struggled to identify rigorously evaluated teacher - development

There are other more productive ways to address the problems at the schools of course, most importantly helping the low - income students who are struggling.

In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careers.

States that have submitted their ESSA plans look to address «perennially struggling schools, and schools where certain groups of students, like English - language learners, aren't doing well.»

Chicago Public Schools officials will phase out three South Side high schools over three years rather than shut them down this summer, an abrupt change to a long - standing plan to address schools that have struggled with enrollment and academics inSchools officials will phase out three South Side high schools over three years rather than shut them down this summer, an abrupt change to a long - standing plan to address schools that have struggled with enrollment and academics inschools over three years rather than shut them down this summer, an abrupt change to a long - standing plan to address schools that have struggled with enrollment and academics inschools that have struggled with enrollment and academics in one...

Engaging Schools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalSchools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalschools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other challenges.

Turnaround Arts, a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, empowers struggling schools with innovative arts, dance, theater, and music programs, arts integration across subject areas, arts resources, musical instruments, and high - profile artist mentors as a proven strategy to help address broader school challenges and close the opportunity gap.

The Priority Schools Campaign is NEA members and the community working together in struggling schools to address those challenges, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all stSchools Campaign is NEA members and the community working together in struggling schools to address those challenges, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all stschools to address those challenges, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

However, I've been struggling for the past two years to find out how I, as a school leader, can engage staff in addressing the messiness of collaboration and in establishing practices for success.

Improving schools is critical to the economy in Rhode Island, a state with nearly 13 percent unemployment, since students who drop out will struggle and be a cost to society, Gist said in an address to the General Assembly.

The settlement, aimed at addressing inequities at low - performing schools, will provide a huge boost in resources to 37 schools that have long struggled with high teacher turnover, student drop - out rates and low student achievement.

USDA proposal to provide technical assistance to struggling school districts is insufficient to address the difficulties in complying with the child nutrition law.

Eskolta teams have been thinking critically about how we can grow and help educators to address this challenge and create a meaningful learning experience for each student — especially those with a history of struggle in school.

This blog post examines ways education leaders in Oregon are working to address the problem of rural students struggling to get a head start on college while still in high school.

In terms of addressing the struggling neighborhood schools — which would still remain, even if a «school of hope» came to town and offered parents another option — the bill expedites turnaround strategies, so that students don't languish for years in schools with a failing status.

The curriculum is organized into elementary school, middle school, and high school level programs that address the daily behavioral and societal skills that will benefit every member of the student body, no matter their struggles, talents, or circumstances.

At both the school where I taught for 17 years and the Board of Education, I have built partnerships that address the education disadvantages that saddle so many black and Latino students struggling against our institutionally racist systems.

Specifically addressing problems at Lakewood Middle School, which has 1,207 students grades 6 - 8 who are 87 percent Latino and 9 percent Black (77 percent are economically - disadvantaged and about the same percentage speak Spanish at home), Ms. Morales detailed her child's struggle in a math class that had no teacher for a month.

To maximize this incentive, states must also address the quality of school leadership and other working conditions in their struggling, hard - to - staff schools.

The plan doesn't do enough to address the long history of shortchanging the city's east side, they said, such as changes to boundaries and transfer policies, and comprehensive strategies to boost enrollment and improve academics at struggling schools.

Addressing the literacy needs of secondary school students involves efforts to raise the achievement levels of all students and to address specifically the needs of struggling readers.

In order to achieve such high aspirations, we must abandon failures of the past and address the difficult, persistent questions confounding our education system: Why do children of poverty continue to struggle and experience limited success in school?

Teacher preparation programs and school districts will struggle to compete with other industries in the recruitment process unless they also address these systemic issues.