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The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes On the Nation's Worst School District By Richard Whitmire Jossey - Bass, 2011, $ 24.95; 270 pages.

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A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

Her stormy tenure is being closely watched by school reformers, the teacher unions, urban educators and Congressional Democrats, who variously believe that the chancellor is either the troubled district's last hope — or worst nightmare.)

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

Given that they have the same powers and organizational interests, the only difference I can see between PM and School District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District boards is that the PM is imagined to be a good guy, who will properly be motivated by quality and avoid interfering unproductively in school operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool operations, while School District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quSchool District board members (even if appointed) are imagined to be bad guys who are more concerned with satisfying special interests and following procedures than with school quschool quality.

The district went from arguably one of the worst urban districts in the country to one of the best by using what Kirp calls «old school» tactics.

An analysis by the Carroll County Public School District in Virginia shows that the 400 students in the virtual program there performed worse than the regular students in 19 of 26 categories on the state assessment test.

This district, by far the worst in the nation, went through agonizing battles between Michelle Rhee (the former chancellor of Washington public schools) and the unions.

A few years ago, the school district was doing so badly on state - mandated tests that it was eligible for takeover by the state.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

Of the $ 502 million it is seeking, the largest portion — $ 108.8 million — would be invested in struggling schools, including managing the worst in a special «achievement district» run by the commissioner of education.

The fact that the school choice option was limited to just schools operated by the district (which may often be just as bad as the failure mills kids were leaving) instead of a wide array of charters and parochial schools outside of it has also blunted its usefulness.

By allowing states to focus on the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps), the administration is also letting districts not under watch off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

The worst fear of those of us who opposed the measure — that Question 2 would dismantle public education, district by district, and leave charter schools free from accountability to the communities in which they reside — will not come to pass.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

But he is simultaneously relieved to have the power to make changes and worried that he won't be able to go far enough if the district doesn't allow him to make outside hires.Quitman a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth - graders in Newark's high - crime, high - poverty Central Ward has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others.

By virtually every measure, this program is a remarkable success for a city that features one of the worst school districts in the country.

«I don't think large is inherently bad,» CMS Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Policy Watch Wednesday, hours after a legislative study committee dominated by Republicans convened to consider whether students in mammoth districts like CMS and Wake County Schools, the state's largest school system, would be better served by smaller districts piloted by local municipalities.

The worst enrollment decline among K - 12 systems was in the Detroit district, where students have been lured away by charter schools or by suburban districts that accept city residents as students.

Peter McDermott, Julia Johnson Rothenberg, and Karyn Lacey have documented as being treated as afterthoughts and worse by traditional districts, the people who need school choice the most and the least likely to have it.

Worse, the best political spin that the reformers could come up with was that after privatizing virtually the entire education system in New Orleans, and giving the corporate education movement total control of the city, the «average composite score on the ACT for students in the Recovery School District (RSD) New Orleans rose by» less than half a percentage point.

Using 2012 - 2013 graduation rates released by the New Jersey Department of Education this month, we compiled the 10 secondary and unified school districts with the best and worst graduation rates.

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.

In this podcast, Dr. Freiberg explains district responsibilities under the state anti-bullying statutes; explores the need for a cultural shift away from punishing bad behavior to teaching kids essential life skills; and, discusses restorative practices and the positive outcomes achieved by schools that are implementing them.

According to «The Myth of Unions» Overprotection of Bad Teachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak unioBad Teachers,» a well - designed study by Eunice S. Han, an economist at the University of Utah, school districts with strong unions actually do a better job of weeding out bad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak uniobad teachers and retaining good ones than do those with weak unions.

By 2015, Webb had gone from the worst middle school in the district to one of its best.

Bad policy backed by slipshod data equals damage to children, especially those from Black, Latino, and American Indian and Alaska Native households most - likely to be suspended, expelled and sent to juvenile justice systems (the school - to - prison pipeline) as a result of districts and other school operators overusing the most - punitive of school discipline.

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).

The primary culprit was a long - accumulating budget deficit (totaling $ 1.35 billion), brought on by bureaucratic bloat, inefficiency, and declining school enrollment — which saw more than a quarter of school seats empty and left the district with badly underused buildings in need of millions of dollars in repairs.

The study, commissioned by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, takes the district's central office to task and is the latest bolt of bad news for a school system reeling from a graduation scandal.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

Opened in the fall of 2012, the idea was to create a bold new kind of school district that was run by the state and less restricted by administrative red tape, in order to do some radical turn - around work in some of Michigan's worst schools.

Here's a look at the two central questions posed by «The Bee Keeper,» the new book about Michelle Rhee: Why do D.C. schools perform so much worse than many other big city school districts?

As explained by NAFIS and NMFA, «The proposal is a bad deal for military families — and a disaster for local public school districts charged with educating our nation's children.»

with defenders making the argument that nothing worse could befall our school district than to be taken over by private interests, while the privateers made the argument that the status quo had to go.

People quickly fell into one camp or the other with defenders making the argument that nothing worse could befall our school district than to be taken over by private interests, while the privateers made the argument that the status quo had to go.

o Improve accountability by allowing public school choice for parents of students in the five worst performing school districts and adopt a «money follows the child» funding system with grants based on a child's needs.

La Academia Partnership Charter School is close by and is rated worse than Lancaster School District.

New Rochelle City School District is close by and is rated worse than Mamaroneck Union Free School District.

Crooked Oak School District is close by and is rated worse than Oklahoma City School District.

San Mateo - Foster City is close by and is rated worse than Belmont - Redwood Shores Elementary School District.

The use of a color coding system by a website for local school districts — with green denoting «good» and red denoting «bad» — may be just as damaging as a casual conversation with a real estate agent steering people to live in certain communities.