Sentences with phrase «chronically failing public schools»

E3, and others, are pushing for passage of the New Jersey Opportunity Scholarship Act, a pilot corporate tax credit bill designed to fund scholarships for low - income students attending the state's lowest performing and chronically failing public schools.

Florida lawmakers appear to be moving forward with a House priority bill boosting funding to charter schools that set up near chronically failing public schools.

The new mandates recess for some elementary school students, pares down on a few standardized tests and seeks to incentivize charter school companies to set up near chronically failing public schools.

It provided fairer funding for existing public charter school students, cleared the way for more new public charter schools to open across the state and created a Commissioner's Network to turn around chronically failing public schools.

(Its carefully wrought wording should help its chances of passage: «Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?»)

Also likely to fall would be the Florida A + program, which provides up to $ 3,472 for children who attend chronically failing public schools.

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

«Transparency» appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive.

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In 2004, Chicago announced the Renaissance 2010 project, which is built around closing chronically failing schools and opening 100 new public schools by the end of the decade.

The education reform bill, passed last year by the state legislature with overwhelming support and signed by Governor Dannel P. Malloy, grows high - performing public school options, provides fairer funding for public charter school students, and creates a Commissioner's Network to turnaround our state's chronically failing schools.

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson plans to essentially re-write the Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing school through a petition drive.

Since they're starting the process of turning around a public school — and got stuck with a chronically failing one for years — it seems only smart to ask parents who are on the front lines about their thoughts and experiences, don't you think?

The Mind Trust supports the launch of fully autonomous Innovation Network Schools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their schoolsschools.

In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include «takeover districts» in which schools that are deemed «chronically failing» are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure that is far less transpar - ent and accountable to the public.

In Expanding District Capacity to Turn Around Failing Schools: An Evaluation of the Cameron Middle School Charter Conversion, Public Impact's Daniela Doyle looks at Metropolitan Nashville's first attempt at gradually converting a chronically low - performing district school to one operated by a charter management organizSchool Charter Conversion, Public Impact's Daniela Doyle looks at Metropolitan Nashville's first attempt at gradually converting a chronically low - performing district school to one operated by a charter management organizschool to one operated by a charter management organization.

Rep. Cecil Brockman, a High Point Democrat who co-sponsored last year's bill to legalize the reform model, says chronically lagging public schools, particularly those that serve African - American children, have failed parents.