Sentences with phrase «city school systems struggling»

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

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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.

The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

Struggling schools are all initially under the supervision of their school system leaders — in New York City, the chancellor — in the receivership program.

Neal's most steadfast partner in the turnaround proved to be the city itself, which — like the school system — has struggled to keep existing residents and attract new ones.

The New York City school system as a whole has shown improvement in some areas, yet students continue to struggle.

About 75 of them came from the struggling Memphis city school system, including the children of Denita Alhammadi.

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

The emergence of a thriving charter system has altered the dynamics of education in a city struggling to repair its reputation as one of the country's most troubled school districts.

Research we've recently conducted in «high - choice» cities suggests that many parents, including those from very disadvantaged backgrounds, are actively choosing a school for their child, but too often these same parents are struggling to navigate an increasingly complicated system of public school options.

Chicago's current landscape — a starkly segregated city, high rates of poverty and violence, and an underfunded and struggling school system — expose far too many of our students to deeply distressing experiences every day.

More than 20 percent of teachers at the 94 struggling schools that are part of the city's ambitious «School Renewal» program received the two lowest ratings on the state - mandated evaluation system last year, compared to less than 10 percent of teachers citywide who received those ratings — «developing» or «ineffective.»

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

She described the city's school system to me recently this way: In the ideological struggle over choice and charter schools «we're actually in the middle.

But too many students and families — especially those who live in large cities, who are Black or Latino, or who struggle with poverty — need better public schools and school systems.

The New York City school system, under Mayor Bill de Blasio's leadership, is reneging on its responsibility to ensure that students, especially those in struggling schools, are taught by truly effective teachers.

PHILADELPHIA (AP / WTXF)-- Philadelphia has moved another step closer to gaining control of the city's struggling public school system after 16 years of state oversight.

Charter supporters say the system meets demand for high - quality education that regularly arises in economically distressed parts of the city, paving the way for innovation in a struggling urban school system.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.