Sentences with phrase «attend failing school districts»

«There are more than 115,000 students who wake up, eat breakfast and walk out that door to attend failing school districts,» Grant Callen, with Empower....

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I'm highly skeptical of most district turnaround efforts, and I believe that chartering is a better way to increase the educational opportunity of children attending failing schools.

Others offer interdistrict choice, such as the controversial busing plan currently under debate in St. Louis, which allows students to attend schools in neighboring districts to alleviate segregation concerns or to offer students an escape hatch from failing schools.

«Districts look at policy initiatives as only attending to instruction and fail to marshal the leadership and organizational resources of schools to support that instructional improvement work,» Cosner said.

It would provide opportunity scholarships to low - income children in a failing district to attend a better school, including some here in Harrisburg.

«If students knew when they woke up in the morning that what they had to say really mattered in what changes were made in the school - they would really come,» says RaShawn, 17, who attends an overcrowded urban high school his district has labeled as failing.

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Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

The results for Virginia's children will be the same old junk all over, with districts such as Fairfax County inflating their not - so - well - deserved reputations for providing high - quality education while failing to do anything for the children who attend their schools or for the families whose taxes sustain them.

For example, our litigation team recently represented a school district in a suit brought by a board member that failed to attend a meeting for three months and had vacated their seat on the Board.

Los Angeles Unified School District will finally become a target of a Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school in which their children attend, according to L.A. School RSchool District will finally become a target of a Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school in which their children attend, according to L.A. School Rschool in which their children attend, according to L.A. School RSchool Report.

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.

[10] For more information, see DC Municipal Regulations for District of Columbia Public Schools, Chapter B24, Dress Codes / Uniforms (under no circumstance shall a student who fails to abide by a mandatory uniform policy be given out - of - school suspension or otherwise be barred from attending school, but a fourth offense of a mandatory uniform policy may subject a student, at the principal's discretion, to on - site suspension).