Sentences with phrase «at failing public schools»

When the General Assembly created a voucher program in 2011, the intention was to give low - income students «stuck» at failing public schools more choices when picking a school, by subsidizing private school tuition.

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

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.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The trash isn't picked up on time, and the public schools are failing, but at least New York City is on top of condom distribution.

When a speaker failed to show up at a Sunday school convention, he undertook his first public exhortation — over 60 were converted.

Students at the Henry S. West Laboratory School, a public K - 8 in Coral Gables, will no longer be graded on homework or penalized for failing to finish it.

The NYC Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office.

«There had been a degree of talk in the chattering class that he was hoping she would fail,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

At budget time year after year, they have failed to fully fund public schools, and that's a real issue here in New York.»

The city Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released on Thursday.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

Even Mayor de Blasio's Republican opponent Paul Massey says Albany should extend mayoral control of city schools — though he charged Hizzoner has «utterly failed» at leading the public school system.

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.

Johns Hopkins University wants to end its partnership with the Buffalo Public Schools at two failing city sSchools at two failing city schoolsschools.

The artists and writers «in residence» at dozens of public universities would fail to meet the criteria implicit in the public school certification model.

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

When Florida threatened to offer vouchers to students at chronically failing public schools, those schools made significant gains.

If schools failed to make adequate progress, officials had to explain themselves to reporters, parents, and the public at large.

When the opportunity arose, Canada, who had watched public schools fail for decades, jumped at the opportunity to deliver a great school to large numbers of poor children.

First, the dynamics of public funding and the budgeting process encourage school districts to spend their entire funding allocation, creating a cost structure that is difficult to adjust down when revenue drops or fails to grow at an expected rate.

For sure, some of the author's analysis rings true: K — 12 education reformers sometimes try to scare the public and policymakers into action (think «A Nation at Risk»), and the Right may use the language of a «strict father» when arguing for testing, standards, and sanctions for failing schools.

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When a state judge scolded the governor in 2011 for underfunding public schools by $ 1.6 billion, Christie's spokesman scoffed at «the failed assumption of the last three decades that more money equals better education.»

Fewer than one percent of voucher students now come from failing public schools, and more than half never attended public school at all.

And, because far fewer schools will be labeled as failing, fewer children and their families will be given at least the opportunity to transfer to a higher performing public school in the district.

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.

In any case, says Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, it takes more than a few vouchers or mayoral control to turn around a failing school system.

Her trenchant observation gets at the heart of one major failure of federal and state education policy: the unwillingness or inability of public officials to invest more resources (fiscal, political, and entrepreneurial) into failing schools.

So we need to face reality: we only have so much to spend on public education and right now we're failing miserably at equitably distributing that funding to all public school students.

The Allentown Morning Call wrote Sunday that «Corbett said he wants vouchers «aimed at failing schools,» where parents, if they choose, «should be able to go the public school next door... or that private school... and take that money and get that opportunity.»

Georgia's program also promised to designate scholarships for students in «failing public schools» from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private schools at the expense of needy children.»

Floridians did not object since the national narrative since the 1986 A Nation At Risk report was that public schools were failing.

What none of these families knew at the time was that because they chose a different public school for their kids, their children would only receive three - fifths of the funding they would have had they stayed in a district school — failing or not.

There is the risk that some charters will fail, that a shift in funding will hinder the traditional public school system, and that the efforts of long - established labor unions will be left at the door.

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.

Well, for a cynical view, look at the political cover it provides: Long - failing public schools are required to be «restructured,» a process Rhee is going through currently with several DCPS schools.

When all the experts agree that early identification is key to gifted education, our public schools are failing at the basic first step of finding kids with a high aptitude!

At the time, there was no evidence that charters would succeed where the local public school had failed.

Example projects: Ms. Hassel co-authored, among others, numerous practical tools to redesign schools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools for instructional and leadership excellence; An Excellent Principal for Every School: Transforming Schools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools into Leadership Machines; Paid Educator Residencies, within Budget; ESSA: New Law, New Opportunity; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Excellent Teacher; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; «The Big U-Turn: How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Workschools from the brink of doom to stellar success» for Education Next; Try, Try Again: How to Triple the Number of Fixed Failing Schools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What WorkSchools; Importing Leaders for School Turnarounds; Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best; the Public Impact series Competencies for Turnaround Success; School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When?

Racine Unified Break - Apart Plan Similar to the failed takeover maneuver aimed at Milwaukee Public Schools, Republican lawmakers included a break - apart plan that targets the Racine Unified School District.

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.

In hind sight one can deduce the various attempts to carry out this diabolical plot: the illegal takeover of an elected BBOE, the failed attempt at a charter change referendum and the hiring of Paul Vallas, public school destroyer extraordinaire.

The public needs to know that the Santa Clara County School Board will not approve charter schools that are likely to fail and that they will hold their approved charter schools to the level of accountability of all public schools — not just at a renewal hearing or an annual report — but on each and every day that children attend sSchool Board will not approve charter schools that are likely to fail and that they will hold their approved charter schools to the level of accountability of all public schools — not just at a renewal hearing or an annual report — but on each and every day that children attend schoolschool.

At Leadership Public Schools, San Jose, many students were failing and were not demonstrating the skills necessary to improve their grades.

Hechinger Report How my time at a «failing» high school blew me away With the implementation of state standards, many public schools have wound...

Nash - Rocky Mount Public Schools may be shrinking — at the startling rate of about 250 students per year since 2011 — but the myriad concerns about failing heating and air conditioning systems and ventilation have gone nowhere.

Backers of Mitts, meanwhile, point to a 1999 civil court case filed by the Illinois attorney general to recover $ 1,970 from Stamps after she allegedly failed to report income from temporary work at Chicago Public Schools while receiving government assistance as a single mother.