Sentences with phrase «about school closures»

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.

Scannapieco said she understood people's concerns about school closures but not the outrage against Le Bok Fin.

Reformers have been less concerned about school closures in communities of color; more willing «to destabilize the democratic institutions»; more concerned about cutting costs; more willing to subject poor children of color to unproven experiments; less concerned about ensuring the presence of experienced, well - qualified teachers and small classes; more willing to impose test - driven curricula; less concerned about kids pushed out of school; and more willing to privatize education.

There's a lot of questions and conversations about school closures in Atlanta.

The Arizona Department of Education sent out guidance to LEAs on April 25 about school closures and altered instructional days.

They vote on policy and make decisions about school closures and consolidations.

And yet the PM in New Orleans is making judgments about school closure based on a flawed measure that effectively punishes schools for trying to serve a high concentration of kids who are too disadvantaged.

This paper, written by Lucy Steiner for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, discusses the lessons district officials in four urban districts learned about the school closure process.

Not exact matches

This Lobby had brought about the closure of Faith - based Adoption agencies, aggravating the crisis in placing children for adoption, and was poised to put on the Statute Book laws which would have imposed its own opinions on Faith - based schools and anyone else who disagreed.

Meanwhile, Erie County, the Town of Tonawanda, and the Ken - Ton School District were looking at about a $ 6 million loss as a result of the Huntley Station closure.

Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

Multiple area elementary schools are being considered for closure and new teachers with less union seniority are again nervous about whether they will have jobs next fall.

Carl Pressley, the vice president of the PTA at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sSchool for the Performing Arts, whose middle school was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool was spared closure this year but is set to begin sharing space with a Harlem Success Academy school in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter sschool in September, said he worries about the loss of classroom space on the building's first floor to the charter schoolschool.

The closure of the passenger bridge on the city's South End earlier this month due to safety concerns sparked questions about who is responsible for repairs: the City of Plattsburgh, or the Plattsburgh City School District.

A parent who sounded emotional about the closure of the school said «It is very unfair for the pupils to be at home while others study.

She then sat through several hours of furious public testimony about planned school moves and closures.

Education advocate Fe Florimon said the planned closure «has really united the community,» which is now pressed for time to «change the city's mind» about shutting the school.

Looking back, my own favourites are simple, short reports, such as, «Last days of the Spike», a feature about the closure of an institution for the homeless, and a page 1 news story, «Schools escape clause 28 in «gay ban» fiasco», which upset a bunch of bigots.

The event was inspired by Jona's discussions with Shelton, and by the agency's webinars about ensuring continuity of learning during extended student absence or school closures.

Moreover, given that chartering enables the continuous creation of new schools, the replication of great schools, and the closure of failing schools, we weren't tied in perpetuity to the schools of today: We could think about an ever - changing, ever - improving set of schools.

They culminate in possible closure, state takeover, privatization, or conversion to a charter school — controversial consequences highlighted in newspaper articles about the law.

We will need to centralize and coordinate school opening and closure decisions and focus strictly on achievement and what's best for kids / neighborhoods, and stop worrying about what's best for all the competing institutions....

Much has been written about the controversy surrounding performance - based school closures, but there has been no rigorous assessment of their impact on student achievement.

There are at least three plausible hypotheses about a closure's potential impact on outcomes for these students: that they would do better, because a closure eliminates their weakest educational option; that their outcomes would be the same, because they would likely transfer to a similarly low - performing school nearby; or that their outcomes would be the same or worse, because even if they transferred to higher - performing schools, the schools may not be well - suited to meet their needs.

We found that about half of the difference in student outcomes in schools slated for closure and the broader sample of schools can be explained by differences in incoming students» demographic characteristics, absenteeism, and achievement in middle school.

As I wrote in this piece about prudent school - closure policies, there is often invisible but incalculable value in institutions and practices that have survived the test of time.

What about students who would have been assigned to one of the closure schools but matriculated to high school after the phase - out process began?

I've touched on ethical questions about classroom discipline, promotion and retention practices, civic and moral education in ideologically fraught times, and school closure debates.

During this time, systems such as Groupcall, ParentMail and ParentPay also come into play, enabling the schools to quickly, efficiently and cost effectively send out message to the parents or guardians about the closure and the learning solution offered.

CONTINGENCY PLANS A school needs to think about what, if any, situations will require closure of the school?

This year, by far the most lopsided finding in the survey was about a controversial reform policy: school closures.

And with regards to closure, while I surely disagree with middle class Californians on many policy issues, I'm not sure that I think I know enough about their children to close schools that have modest negative test impacts but high enrollment demand.

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.

While school closures aren't exactly reasons to celebrate, Texas's higher closure rate does indicate that the state is serious about ensuring quality in charter schools.

«As our enrollment continues to decline, the board will have to make more difficult decisions about funding, including potential reductions in workforce and school closures,» she wrote.

Last week, a lower court judge blocked the mayor's office from ordering the school's closure, but U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker ruled the mayor was right to close the school after serious concerns about the schools academics and finances emerged.

What's to be done about rural districts where school closure or replacement strategies are not viable?

Imposing a three - year moratorium on closures and adding social services to 5 % of schools will not bring about the kind of scalable, system - wide changes parents and advocates are desperately hoping for.

This analysis suggests two things: First, that the Fiscal Note assumptions about cost «relief» may be suspect and second, that the only way to gain true cost savings from a voucher program would be through school closures.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

The conversation ran the gamut from school closures to student safety to Rick Santorum's allegation of «snobbishness» about Barack Obama's college attainment goals, but chatter about the role of standardized testing data in education ruled the day.

In fact, there is even confusion over whether a district can require a charter applicant to provide any information about its parent organization, according to Alice Miller of the California Charter School Association, which is helping MPS protest the closures.

In order for us to address the growing concern, we must look at what we know about the correlation and connection of school closures to gentrification.

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About a dozen of these districts are using cooperation, also commonly referred to as district - charter collaboration, to drive decisions and address systemic challenges, including tracking school performance, student enrollment, and school closure.

Let's not «talk» about integration or evil school closures.

Only 13 percent of students from closing D.C. schools have signed up to stay in the traditional school system next year, Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday, raising questions about whether the school closures are driving families into charter schools.

On November 18, 19 and 20, participants gathered in front of their schools and worksites taking pictures with signs to raise their concerns about over-testing, school closures, and lack of adequate school funding.

The study points out important facts about the fallout of school closings, such as how students of color and low - income students are disproportionately affected and how less than half of displaced students end up in better performing schools following school closure.

kid speakers (possible topics: what opt out has meant to them, learning in a test - prep - heavy environment, learning in a non-test-prep-heavy environment, attending a school where test score - based closure is imminent, the experience of testing days, how their family found out about opt out, etc)