Sentences with phrase «allowing failing charters»

By allowing failing charters to stay open, the City of Milwaukee gave all charters a bad reputation.

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It also allows the groups to push for charters as an alternative to district schools by justifying the existence of charters by the existence of failing non-charter schools.

Cuomo's education plan includes revamping the state's teacher evaluation system, increasing the charter school cap, approving the education investment tax credit and DREAM Act and allowing outside entities to take over failing schools.

The restructuring options prescribed by law include strong measures, such as turning failing schools into charter schools or allowing the state to take them over.

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

The promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more charter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to attract better teachers.

California's new «parent trigger» law allows parents at a failing school to vote to turn the school into a charter, to replace the staff, or to force other changes.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

It would also allow school districts to convert an unlimited number of failing public schools into charter schools or — in cases of severely failing schools — authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to force public schools to convert.

It also would have allowed an unlimited number of «conversion» charters: existing public schools converted to charters if they failed to make adequate progress on test scores...

As a part of negotiations, Superintendent John Deasy modified the original Public School Choice (PSC) program, which had allowed outside operators like charters to submit bids to turn around failing LAUSD schools.

Referendum 55, a measure that gave voters a chance to decide the fate of a legislative bill passed in 2003 allowing charter schools, was failing by a large margin Tuesday night...

It would also allow the state Department of Education to assume control of failing schools, as well as make it easier for charter schools to expand.

Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, parents, students, educators, and advocates turned out for the first legislative hearing on Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to expand the number of charter school seats in school districts with the lowest MCAS scores as well as another proposal that would allow for a state takeover of failing schools.

Their proposals would allow charter schools, establish a process to intervene when schools fail and continue strengthening principal and teacher performance reviews.

«I think it's the year for us,» said state Rep. Brad Montell, R - Shelbyville, who announced Monday that he had filed a bill to allow the creation of state - funded charters dubbed «public school academies,» which he said would provide an alternative to failing schools.

Approving Referendum 55 will allow local communities to convert persistently failing public schools into tuition - free, charter public schools.

The legislation also allows school districts to convert failing public schools into charter schools and for schools that are consistently failing to be forced by the state superintendent of public instruction to be converted to charter schools.

The longer failing schools are allowed to operate, the easier it is for our influential political opponents to push policies making it harder for all charters to thrive.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

It required all schools to report academic achievement and test their students, and it prescribed consequences if schools failed to reach targets, including allowing states to turn them into charter schools.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

When voters were asked whether charter schools should be located in certain areas of the state, such as those in failing school districts (as the law currently allows), or throughout the entire state, 57 percent said the entire state compared to 18 percent who said just in certain areas and 17 percent who said they should not be available anywhere.

That's fine, but if voters approve Initiative 1240 parents in districts that are allowing too many kids to fail will love charter schools.

Her sons attended Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schools.

Earlier this month, he signed legislation allowing local school governing boards to close failing schools, convert them to charter schools, or fire a failing school's principal and half the staff.

If the measure passes, it would allow failing or struggling public schools to be transformed into charter schools.

In its most recent session, the state Legislature failed to pass a couple of bipartisan bills that would've allowed for charter schools.

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

His unprecedented autonomy allowed him to engage in bold experiments regarding the governance and operation of the city's schools, expanding choice at all levels of the system by closing failing schools and opening charter schools, decentralizing authority, and creating a new accountability system to drive innovation.

Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «school system» to a «system of schools», with comprehensive traditional public school choice, expanded charter school capability, access to more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in failing schools.

Under a mayoral authorizer, bad charters won't be allowed to fail with impunity — either the school or its authorizer will pay a price.

In the New York Times, Jennifer Medina writes about a topic that our own Ben Boychuk has chronicled at length: the effort to reform California schools through a trigger mechanism, which allows dissatisfied parents to convert failing public institutions into charter schools.

A «parent trigger bill» that would allow parents or school personnel the right to convert failing traditional public schools to charter schools passed the House.

Teachers» unions have been historically and aggressively opposed to the Parent Trigger, which allows parents to replace a failing public school with a charter school.

California's educational establishment suffered a rare blow in 2010, when the state became the first in the nation to allow parents of students in underperforming schools to pull a «parent trigger,» a mechanism that allows a majority of dissatisfied parents to compel reform up to and including conversion of a failing public school into a charter.

Allow parents in failing schools to immediately petition to turn the school into a charter school.

School choice proponents say that charter schools and vouchers offer parents important options for their children's education — allowing them to leave their neighborhood schools in search of something better — and that traditional public schools have failed in many places.

But a failing school has yet to see its teaching / administrative staff replaced or its entire structure overhauled by a charter organization, as the Parent Trigger law allows.

In fact, the State Board of Education is not allowed to accredit or close failing charter schools.

His proposal would allow the state to take over consistently failing schools and enable private management companies to open charter schools in failing neighborhoods.

But rather than holding Perry accountable for his failings, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has supported his taxpayer - supported entrepreneurial efforts by pushing through approval of a plan that would allow Perry to use his private company to a charter school in New Haven.

The winners of the Race would be those states that submitted the best blueprints for fulfilling the reform agenda, which includes allowing school districts to take over failing schools, improving curriculum standards and encouraging school innovation (which means, in part, allowing charter schools to flourish).

And many charter authorizers have managed to build a credible and valid set of data that allows them to close failing charters at the end their first five - year term.

The decision to allow charter networks to take over failing schools was a quick fix for the District and way to save money.

In 2003, the Louisiana State Legislature created Act 9, which allowed for the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) to seize responsibility of a public school deemed failing and establish and govern the RSD, with the BESE able to continue to oversee the operation of traditional schools or create charter schools (Louisiana Legislature, 2003).

By failing to allow a 15 - 20 minute delay, the arresting officer had acted in violation of Mark's Charter rights.

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the power of lower courts to order Charter damages, but allowed the City's appeal in part, stating that Charter damages should only be used in certain narrow circumstances where the Charter breach is significant, and where other remedies would fail to compensate the Plaintiff.