Sentences with phrase «ailing school»

Pay, teacher support and rewarding quality teachers can all be blamed for the state's teaching crisis, superintendents of various ailing school systems told members of the House Select committee on Education Strategy and Practices last month.

In June 2007 new mayor Adrian Fenty assumed control of the ailing school system, firing the incumbent superintendent and replacing him with Michelle Rhee.

The uprising comes after teachers spent the last decade defending themselves from blame for America's ailing school systems.

Just last week, the governor of New York sent the state's top education officials a letter warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget by pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to fix an ailing school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

Dipping into its emergency fund, the state of Ohio has loaned almost $ 1.5 million to a financially ailing school district and has told it to eliminate some 25 staff positions before applying for another loan.

ASCEND is one of more than a dozen small, autonomous schools that have opened in Oakland, California, as part of a grassroots effort to reform the ailing school system.

It's surely not a silver bullet or 100 percent solution to all that ails our schools.

Yet the major charter firms moved prudently, each bidding on just one or two schools, and favoring the spanking - new campuses rather than attempting to turn around chronically ailing schools.

Are standardized tests, especially high - stakes tests that link grade promotion and graduation, a Band - Aid to fix what is ailing schools?

Every projected change is in the interest of all groups, a harmonious solution to what ails the schools.

The governor's problems had a lot to do with substance: the voters did not share his view that bad teachers were at the root of whatever ailed the schools, and they didn't like the fact that he had broken his word on funding (see Figures 3 and 4).

Not only is this bad for the children who will be attending these ailing schools, but it makes it even harder to turn them around.

It's not at all clear if the federal prescription can cure the most ailing schools and lead to long - term improvements, but preliminary student achievement data for the program offer some promise.

«Parent trigger» laws are supposedly about empowering parents to decide how to improve ailing schools.

CINCINNATI — In search of a cure for ailing schools, educators and politicians from around the world have descended on this city's poorest neighborhoods, hearing of a renaissance.

While implementing common - core standards can be helpful in developing a shared vision of quality instruction, I continue to caution policymakers against looking for a quick fix for our ailing schools.

Opinion: Standardized, high - stakes testing isn't a panacea for all that ails schools, but it is a good start for finding a cure.

«There's nothing that ails our schools that can't be fixed by giving parents more choices and teachers more freedom to teach,» Pence said during his inaugural address in 2013.

When we consider the aging and ailing schools most students attend, and the outdated infrastructure that awaits them, the idea begs genuine reflection.

At the same time, however, I've been very concerned about how some advocates of SEL have been promoting it as the cure - all for everything that ails schools and society (see The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough and my Washington Post column, The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning).

Not exact matches

IndieGoGo recently launched the ablity to launch funds for an ailing family member, or a local school group or whatever you want.

TEMECULA, Calif. --(June 30, 2015)-- Kiyokuni Ikeda, a self - taught sushi chef who dropped out of high school to aid his ailing father, has landed the top job at Umi Sushi & Oyster Bar at Pechanga Resort & Casino.

Kiyokuni Ikeda, a self - taught chef since age 10, left high school to run his ailing father's restaurant near Tokyo.

Between her parents» ailing health and her own need for health insurance, Nancy began working in a local school cafeteria in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (Sschool cafeteria in the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SSchool District (SBUSD).

The Tango Man assaults will see Corbyn going after the Tories on solid Labour ground such as grammar schools and an ailing NHS while capitalising on doubts fast emerging about May's competence over the economy and Brexit.

He called himself a «fiscal conservative» and spoke of plans to increase the Bank of England's power to rescue ailing banks, as well as outlining Conservative plans to permit thousands of non-selective schools to be introduced into the state sector.

The aid package, approved Tuesday by the board of Empire State Development, the state's economic development agency, follows last week's approval of a $ 25 million loan by the State University of New York to shore up the school's ailing finances.

Planting permanent roots will revitalize an ailing economy, they argue, and will repopulate the school districts that are hemorrhaging students.

The cameras, which were placed near schools, generated more than 400,000 tickets — and $ 24 million in new revenue for the fiscally ailing county — from September to November.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

Bringing «virtual dental homes» to schools, nursing homes and long - term care facilities can keep people healthy — reducing school absenteeism, lessening the need for parents to leave work to care for an ailing child, and helping to prevent suffering for millions of people who have no access to a dentist, a six - year study by University of the Pacific demonstrates.

Although these studies have not come up with the «silver bullet» to cure all that ails American schools, the findings are beginning to fill in some blanks in that hugely complex puzzle called education.

During the day, Conor becomes increasingly isolated from his peers, thanks to «normal» kid problems (school bullies), then spends his evenings comforting and helping his ailing mother - with limited support from his grieving grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) and his absentee father (Toby Kebbell).

When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids (ages 5 and 12) and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home - school them.

When the local classroom fails to meet the young girl's special needs, Jamie rallies all the support she can find and takes on the school district and the ailing educational system.

However, Gruwell's ailing marriage, disapproving father (Glenn, Training Day), and a jaded school administration prove to be daunting adversaries to her plans, and she must make a choice to continue to work overtime to provide an adequate education to her young minds, at the expense of her personal life and possibly her future career.

Deprived of the Bolshoi's free accommodation and financial backing and with an ailing mother to support, Dominika is strong - armed by her uncle Vanya — the Chekhov joke never lands — to join one of the state schools which train «sparrows», a name given to the women who are ruthlessly drilled in techniques of seduction, blackmail and sexual entrapment in the service of the intelligence agencies.

Since not having the means to tend her ailing mother (Joely Richardson) can't be an option, Dominika, at the suggestion of her eldritch uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), agrees to grow wings of ultimate manipulation at a school headlined by the icy Matron (Charlotte Rampling).

Bale's Russell Baze toils all day at the local mill and spends his free time tending to his ailing father; his girlfriend, a nursery school teacher played by a believably de-glammed Zoe Saldana, provides him with the few opportunities for joy in his life.

Vanya, played by Bullhead star Matthias Schoenarts, is a slime ball from the start, manipulating Dominika's desire to care for her ailing mother - previously managed by her affiliation with the Bolshoi - to convince her that only he can keep them both above water and only if his niece will to the unthinkable, submit herself to the «whore school» that is Sparrow training.

Even if we overlooked the shortcomings of testing as a measure of learning, a single - minded focus on reading and math would not be a cure for what ails children in the nation's poorest - performing schools.

Year - Round Schooling Can Cure Much of What Ails Us This opinion piece, written by vice president / president - elect of the Illinois Association for Year - Round Education, Molly A. Carroll, extols the virtues of year - round education.

All of us secretly hope that a tonic will be discovered to fix what ails those students; and we pray (outside of school, of course) that the disease is not contagious.

Let me be clear: My plan won't fix all that ails America's schools.

The ensuing hoopla loosed a tsunami of enthusiasm for building self - esteem as a solution for almost everything that ails an individual, including low achievement in school.

As the executive director of the Washington office of New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), Davis is overseeing a rapidly expanding crop of new principals who are promising to revitalize a long - ailing system.

Of the five states with laws authorizing state intervention in ailing public school districts, only New Jersey thus far has moved to the brink of a full takeover.

The nation's governors and top corporate executives will trumpet standards and technology as medicine for what ails the nation's schools when they gather next month in New York state for an education summit.

Though we are advocates of the desegregation program we, along with other suburban schools, will be forced to make a tough decision: keep St. Louis city children at our expense or send them back to a system that is clearly fragile and ailing.

Florida's first Republican - led legislature in more than a century finished its work this month after addressing much of what ails education, but largely bypassing the state's most pressing school problem — crowded classrooms.