Sentences with phrase «at failing schools»

A Parent Trigger law empowers the majority of parents at any failing school either to bring in new leadership and new staff or transform their school into a charter school.

The voucher program was designed to give students at failing schools better choices, so these voucher schools should be expected to demonstrate better academic performance as a condition of staying in the program.

She did go so far to say that the target would more likely be kids at failing schools rather than at all schools.

The school improvement grants mark the largest federal investment ever targeted at failing schools.

Lastly, I find myself struggling with the stigma that comes with working at a failing school.

The controversial measure currently being debated would allow a majority of parents at a failing school to fire staff, close their school, or convert it to a charter.

Parents Demand Charter in LAUSD's First Parent Trigger Campaign A high - spirited group of nearly 100 parents descended on the Los Angeles Unified district office Thursday and turned in petitions demanding sweeping changes at their failing school in the first use of the controversial parent trigger law in the city.

In this report, we examine the record of the three existing takeover districts, and find that there is no clear evi - dence that takeover districts actually achieve their stated goals of radically improving performance at failing schools.

The way the law works is that if 51 % of parents at a failing school sign a petition, they can turn the school into a charter school, replace the staff or simply use the petition as a bargaining chip to initiate a conversation about change.

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.»

A coalition of parent - led groups, including the Florida PTA, and Democrats bashed a fast - tracked «parent trigger» proposal that would let parents at failing schools determine their fate.

Before Ramos came to the school, parents at Haddon organized a parent union chapter to initiate a parent trigger and began gathering signatures in 2011, aided by Parent Revolution, which helps with parent trigger movements at failing schools.

They reached their conclusions by analysing decisions made by 62 heads who saw the C grades their students earned at GCSE increase by 45 per cent or more over eight years at failing schools.

«Using AB 114 to go back to the status quo ante at failing schools like Manual Arts High will do nothing to improve student achievement,» he told me.

In some cases, Parent Revolution helps families to use California's Parent Empowerment law, which gives families at failing schools significant new power to bring about changes.

Moreover, it came at a time when the federal government and statehouses stress an incentive - based system to improve teaching at failing schools.

Legislators in at least 20 states are taking fresh look at parent empowerment laws that would allow parents at failing schools who sign a petition to compel local education agencies to implement certain reforms.

Former students at schools once operated by Corinthian Colleges may be getting some relief from student loans left over from their days at the failed 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.

According to the Arizona Republic, «Ducey said he supports allowing students at failing schools to use the per - student assistance the state provides at a private school of their choice.»

If the state instead threatened to fire or reassign the principals and teachers at failing schools, the results would likely be the same.

This mindset is particularly convenient in a time of budget crunches, when districts feel pressured enough focusing on low - achieving kids at failing schools.

«We believe money is not the answer,» said Sen. Brown, explaining instead that districts must identify other ways to deal with factors that contribute to poor performance at failing schools.

The Obama administration has handed out $ 5.1 billion to states to improve academic performance at about 1,500 schools since 2009, the largest federal investment ever targeted at failing schools.

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.

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

Enacted in 2010, California's trigger law allows a majority of parents at a failing school the right to replace the staff and faculty, convert the campus into a charter school or shutter the school.

Another reform would allow a majority of the parents at a failing school to vote to trigger a state takeover of that school.

States had a legislative imperative to raise graduation rates; they knew where to target intervention (early on, and at failing schools); and they knew they would feel it economically if they didn't.

The proposals have varied from state to state, but they generally allow parents at any failing school, defined by standardized testing, to sign a petition to radically transform the school using any of four «triggers.»

The attempted takeover was made possible by a highly disputed new law called Parent Trigger, which allows half - or - more of parents at any failing school (as designated by the U.S. Department of Education) to make major decisions about its future.

It's big in terms of the income levels, and it's big in terms of the fact that you don't have to be at a failing school to access a voucher.

So far, only parents in California have successfully used the law to force changes at failing schools.

TRANSLATED: The most controversial new proposal would enable students at failing schools to receive a voucher to transfer to a private school.

Applying Democracy Prep's rigorous and structured model to the students at these failing schools and garnering vastly different results is proof that the Democracy Prep model works and that all students are capable of achieving academic success.