Sentences with phrase «allows failing public schools»

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Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

Plenty of our public schools are failing, but we almost never admit that they have failed and allow that organization to be replaced with new ones.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

• 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.

In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.

It allows students living anywhere in Ohio to apply for a voucher to attend private school if they've been slated to a failing public school.

That said, this holds true of traditional public schools as well, many of which can be allowed to fail for years on end.

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

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.

(Its carefully wrought wording should help its chances of passage: «Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?»)

And the president's proposal to allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public schools of their choice — while thin on details — sounds a lot like a proposal that failed to pass the GOP - led Senate in 2015.

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.

«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.

Florida House passes bill to allow parents to take over failing public schools, Dara Kam, Palm Beach Post, Thursday, March 1, 2012 http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional/florida-house-passes-bill-to-allow-parents-to-ta-1/nLhLx/

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.

When lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarships program back in 2013 to allow children from low - income families the chance to use public dollars at private schools, they included accountability provisions in the law that fail to let the public know if these privately - operated schools are better — or worse — options than public schools.

The expansion does allow students to skip public school entirely if their public school receives a failing grade from the state.

DENVER (CBS4)-- Some angry parents spoke out in a rally on Thursday, saying Denver Public Schools has ignored its southwest region and allowed schools therSchools has ignored its southwest region and allowed schools therschools there fail.

«It's not about public schools failing, it's about the idea that people are meddling and public schools aren't allowed to use and do the things we're supposed to do,» he said.

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.

Established in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing and underperforming public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to enroll in the private school of their choice.

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 scSchool, 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 scschool 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 sSchools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schoolsschools.

Establish in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

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

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.

And he worked pro bono to help enact a «parent trigger» law in California, which allows parents to seize control of a failing public school and bring in new management or staff.

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.

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson plans to essentially re-write the Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing school through a petition drive.

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.

«Transparency» appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive.

That scholarship allowed her to escape her neighborhood's public schools — where she had failed out of third grade twice.

Parent Trigger is a new law, barely passed through the state Legislature under former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in January, that allows 51 percent of any failing public school's parents to take over the school in one of four ways.

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.

Created in 2008 and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

«Gov. Dannel P. Malloy moved quickly Thursday to exploit what Democrats say is an ill - considered and impractical proposal by Republican Tom Foley to allow urban parents to pick the local public school of their choice and strip money from failing schools as their children go elsewhere.

Even more shocking was Gov. Jay Nixon's decision that same month to veto legislation co-authored by his arch-nemesis, Rep. Maria Chappelle - Nadal, that would have allowed for kids in failing districts to attend higher - quality public and private schools in the area shows the callousness of state officials when it comes to providing kids with high - quality educational options.

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

The Obama administration has said that Louisiana's school voucher program, which allows children to transfer out of failing public schools into private schools on the public's dime, has hurt desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

«The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.

Imagine, the question informs voters that the Governor's legislation «takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.»

In public education, that means flooding the market with schools, aggressively closing those that are labeled as «failing,» and opening up pathways to allow new school operators to take their place.

Dear Editor: There is good reason why the parent trigger — a plan to allow a simple majority of parents at a failing public school to trigger reform options — is sweeping the nation.