Sentences with phrase «when school closures»

When school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better school choices for children, it feels like less of an attack.

When school closure or teacher evaluation policies disproportionately impact low - income communities of color, is that in itself evidence of an injustice that must be addressed?

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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the situation took a negative twist, leading to the closure of the school, when angry students destroyed the clinic because they felt that Adiku would have survived if it was equipped.

«If you look at the timing of this, we were withdrawn the day before the forum, which really has many people thinking that everything has been resolved in our favor when it hasn't,» said Wadleigh librarian Paul McIntosh, who helped lead the effort to save the school from closure.

He pointed towards the closure of special needs schools when explaining how the number in children in special schools had fallen by 9,000 since Labour came to power.

Explaining the decision when the closure was announced, schools minister Lord Nash said that «none of the school's teachers were delivering good lessons and all were still consistently inadequate or required improvement».

When their headmistress proves to be at a loss on how to prevent her school from financial ruin and closure, a group of girls at the boarding school hatch a plan to save their beloved learning institution.

In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

Even when sponsors move to take this difficult step, low - performing schools can often avoid closure by switching to a different sponsor.

«Without the penalty of closure, charter schools, which often succeed with students when the district often doesn't, simply don't make sense.

We must register one caveat that tempers the positive findings on closures: When students displaced by closures enter their new schools, it is possible that they negatively impact the learning of students who had previously attended the school.

Charter school restarts offer a way to intervene when performance does not meet expectations — and not just as a last - ditch effort to avoid closure.

And while the citywide college - readiness rate has risen steadily over the past three years, the Renewal schools saw a slight overall dip last year, when 10 showed declines from 2015 and one — Leadership Institute, which is slated for closure — sank to a dismal 2 percent.

One local organization, sympathetic to charter schools, recently lamented that when four low - performing schools came up for renewal, they dodged closure by shopping around for a charter authorizer who would take them.

The impending closure of the Manual Education Complex in Denver is sparking a conversation about what can be learned from the experience at a time when the nation has pinned high hopes on improving secondary schools by turning them into smaller, more personalized environments.

EdD Urban Education Leadership candidate Aisha McCarthy faced new challenges when she discovered that enrollment at her school would increase 50 percent in light of another school's closure.

But when political leaders push policies that have no track record of success and are obviously senseless — Noguero mocked the whole notion of school closures as a solution to education failure by asking, «If we had too much crime in a neighborhood would we shut down the police department?»

When charters don't perform, they face closure — making them the most accountable public schools in the state.

Weingarten is being led away by police in Philadelphia last March when she protested against the closure of schools in Philadelphia.

We have additional enhancements in the works that will introduce project closure at the individual student level possible and we'll inform our schools when this becomes available later this summer.

The closure on 30 September 2014 was when the community school converted to academy status.

As she states, «when a closure happens in the first year or two of operations, there were usually warning signs; if heeded, those signs should have kept the school from ever opening.

All charter schools are not equal; when the public learns of the failures, it is a story of closure.

A spokesperson for council said there had been an «evolution towards two - tier, as schools of all types have been exploiting their increased autonomy», and admitted the mix of schools has caused «pressures», including the closure of three middle schools in 2014 when nearby schools decided to change their age ranges.

This was a particularly noteworthy statement, considering that in almost every breakout slot there was at least one session related to closure or revocation, with topics such as «By the Numbers: What Do We Know About School Closure Around the Country», «Building a Closure Plan Focused on Kids», «When and How to Revoke a Charter», and «Interventions for Struggling Schools».

But the value of the appraisal to use school closure always goes up when the people in them are devalued.

The Education Research Alliance of Tulane University released «Extreme Measures: When and How School Closures and Charter Takeovers Benefit Students» earlier this month.

In sum, when schools with high proportions of Black and Latino students close, Black and Latino teachers bear a disproportionate impact of these closures including loss of jobs.

When the Board announced it would close Batchelder and give the school to Montessori, parents opposed the «closure» and requested information about why it was closed.

So, when researchers looked at test scores four years after a school closure, displaced students had generally comparable scores on state math exams to scores of their non-displaced peers.

And when these pseudo-reforms fail to improve our lowest - performing schools, closure of schools and redistribution of students into the marketplace is now a reform.

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Factors with the highest weight included the share of public schools that are charter schools, the share of public - school students in charter schools, the growth rate of charters, the closure rate of charters (small and consistent was considered the best) and academic quality in both reading and math as measured in the equivalent of «additional days of learning» when compared with traditional public schools.

But when you try to explain to the public that your schools went down in part because the state is counting overall achievement less and the achievement gap closure more, the average citizen will say, «That's just sour grapes.

Alongside the existing statutory presumption against closure of rural schools, the government will go further, introducing a new «double lock» so that when small rural schools convert to academy status both local and national government have to agree to a school closing before a decision can be made.

Our Philadelphia founding member, Helen Gym, shared news reports that her group, Parents United for Public Education, and others have filed an ethics complaint against the William Penn Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, alleging that BCG was acting as a lobbyist when it developed a plan for the School District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundSchool District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundschool closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundation.

Restarts should not be initiated as a last - ditch effort to avoid closure of a district or charter school, but as a proactive strategy that authorizers can initiate when the conditions are right.

When a public school is made into a charter, it's removed from public oversight or electoral control: there goes community choice about school closures or educational policies.

School closure is the ultimate consequence when a charter school persistently fails to meet its academic, organizational, and / or financial School closure is the ultimate consequence when a charter school persistently fails to meet its academic, organizational, and / or financial school persistently fails to meet its academic, organizational, and / or financial goals.

«I am not aware of what this is about,» he wrote in an email to the Miami Herald when asked about the school's closure in 2008.

Charter schools are held accountable for their performance and when they do not meet their goals, they face sanctions and closure, making them the most accountable public schools there are.

When people on the boards of several charter schools under NHA questioned the spending and wanted a new arrangement, they were removed and / or their schools were threatened with closure (Wood, 2011).

Results of the study suggest that students displaced by school closures can experience adverse effects on test scores and attendance; however, these effects can be minimized when students move to substantially higher - performing schools.

Following the closure of the Bauhaus, when its remaining faculty members refused to re-open the school in compliance with the Third Reich, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1933, first settling in North Carolina, where they taught and helped to develop the design curriculum at Black Mountain College, at that time a noted site of avant - garde activity.

The project came about when Ulva School was threatened with closure, due to local population decline brought about by the area's lack of affordable housing.