Sentences with phrase «bad school district leader»
We congratulate NYC parents on their successful challenge of one bad school district leader — let's hope that other mayors (or mayors - elect) are paying attention!
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But charter leaders want to hammer home their point that the answer to bad district schools illustrate the need for good charters.
Facilitate school district bankruptcy: Congress can help free local leaders from the burden of bad decisions made long ago.
Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?
State, district, and school leaders must link arms to create a different model for turning around the worst - performing schools, including a «protected space» free from many traditional rules, a new report contends.
The teachers union is looking to expand its influence on school boards in the wake of Mayor Lovely Warren's request to be named leader of a receivership district to turnaround the city's worst schools.
Despite receiving bipartisan political support, including leaders in New Jersey's worst performing school districts, The OSA has received bipartisan support from political leaders such as Newark's Democratic Mayor Corey Booker and New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie.
including leaders in New Jersey's worst performing school districts, The OSA has received bipartisan support from political leaders such as Newark's Democratic Mayor Corey Booker and New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christie.
As the SEA builds out an informative feedback system that helps educators and local leaders act on what they learn to improve their schools, the SEA's role in working with districts will no longer be to serve as good or bad cop (and parole officer), but to become true agents for improvement, providing needed technical assistance, coaching, and monitoring.
Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.
«We knew it was bad, but I never though it was this bad,» said Roberto Aguirrez, a parent leader with People Acting in Community Together, a group lobbying the Morgan Hill Unified District to approve charter schools and boost opportunities for Latino success.
A bad school year for Muncie Community Schools leaders got even worse Friday after the state denied their request to end bus services they say the district can no longer afford.
This would also require them to admit that their «social compact» is little more than a step back to the bad old days before No Child's passage, when states, districts, teachers, and school leaders were allowed to ignore the needs of poor and minority children with impunity.