Sentences with phrase «called school closures»

He called school closures «a violation of our human rights,» since many communities are left without neighborhood schools after districts shut them down.

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Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

Bloomberg has closed 140 struggling schools since taking charge of the education system in 2003, drawing the ire of critics including mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former City Comptroller, who called for a legal moratorium on closures this year.

Quinn, a close ally of the mayor, stood out this week as the only major Democratic contender who did not joint the teachers union on the steps of City Hall to call for a moratorium on school closures and co-locations.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer called for the U.S. Department of Education to implement a warning system for students at financially troubled schools in the wake of Dowling College's possible closure.

De Blasio has said he expects substantial improvement at the 94 so - called «Renewal Schools» within the next three years before struggling schools can be considered for cSchools» within the next three years before struggling schools can be considered for cschools can be considered for closure.

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

Morpurgo has called for parents to read to their children every night; a half hour «story time» at the end of the school day; and a halt to library closures.

After nearly two weeks out of school, the teachers called off their walkout and returned to work — with no concessions beyond their initial 16 - percent raise, and with much of the initial goodwill rubbed off by a school closure that looked increasingly gratuitous.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

Except, unlike other charter schools, traditional public school advocates like those supporting Nixon are not calling for its closure.

The program called for rewarding schools with high and improving scores and imposing sanctions, including school closure, on low - performing schools.

This month, the CCSA is calling for the closure of six schools across the state because of poor academic performance, including one in Los Angeles.

That law places emphasis on the schools reducing the so - called «achievement gap,» and contains sanctions for schools that fail to do so, up to and including closure.

In December 2013, CCSA publicly called for the closure of 6 charter schools as a result of academic underperformance.

More than 20 counties have announced school closures — many citing an inability to cover teacher absences — as teachers and supporters called for all 120 counties to close their doors.

The previous Differentiated Accountability (DA) statute called for four Intervene turnaround models for the lowest performing schools: district managed turnaround, closure, operation through a private management company, or conversion to a charter school.

The plan also includes four school closures this summer; Roberts has rejected earlier proposals that called for closing 28 schools over the next five years.

We participate in a call with local area Superintendents who share their thinking and decision - making regarding school closures and delays.

The biggest issue in the election was the so - called education reform — disinvestment, school closures, exclusive charters — that has wreaked havoc on families in that city.

SACRAMENTO, California - The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has called for the closure of six (6) charter schools from across California that are below CCSA's Minimum Criteria for RSchools Association (CCSA) has called for the closure of six (6) charter schools from across California that are below CCSA's Minimum Criteria for Rschools from across California that are below CCSA's Minimum Criteria for Renewal.

Parentlink allows parents to be notified with a phone call, text message, or email about events ranging from weather - related school closures and lock downs, to an unexcused absence.

She repeated called for Abramson's closure because of the revelation that the school's officials tried to bribe someone from LDOE.

«We're not the first to call for a moratorium [on charter schools and school closures].

«The moratorium calls for a halt in expansion, not closure, until assessment can be done of the entire school system.

The Center for Education Reform, a pro-charter advocacy group, traced charter - school closures since 1992 in what it called the «first - ever national analysis» of its kind.

A separate but parallel fiscal measure calls for the closure of 300 public schools across the island.

But calling for the closure of 10 out of almost 1,000 charter schools seems like a pittance to Gary Miron, a Western Michigan University professor who has evaluated charter schools for several states.

CCSA has several years of experience designing and launching an academic accountability framework to guide advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating schools, including calling for the closure of underperforming schools.

The Campaign for the Book has called for a moratorium on all school library closures following the news that some 12 school libraries have been...

If you're no longer required to make payments on your loans due to other circumstances, such as a total and permanent disability or the closure of the school where you received your loans, this is generally called discharge.

Also launched with a boost from the Obama administration: A campaign spearheaded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School's Program in Criminal Justice is calling for closure of all the remaining youth prisons in the United States, meaning large - scale, high - security incarceration facilities.

An MP who ignored calls by Fathers4Justice and other parent groups to support the closure of a Hampshire school at the centre of sex abuse allegations, has today been implicated in a cover up surrounding the scandal.