Sentences with phrase «closing weak schools»

But closing weak schools is an essential ingredient of the charter model, a point of leverage largely absent in traditional districts.

Not exact matches

Let's take it closer to home... how about the mean girl in high school, the bully who picked on the weak kids, the vindictive businessman?

· Student performance at charter schools is showing signs of improvement over time (mainly because of the closing of weak charter schools).

Including closing weak charter schools or cutting off public funding to private schools of choice if they diminish achievement?

The MPs also raise concerns that some outstanding academies are not providing support for weaker neighbouring schools and the report calls for closer monitoring.

Under the proposal, schools that receive an F for three consecutive years, or a combination of Ds and Fs with weak growth scores for five consecutive years, would be closed or turned over to a private charter management organization.

The Bloomberg administration focused on closing low - performing schools and opening new ones in their place, an approach that followed a system of intensive support for weak schools that did not result in many closures.

Baton Rouge's student outcomes actually got worse largely because students ended up in schools that were weaker than those they closed.

A Sun Sentinel investigation found that several charter school operators exploited Florida's weak laws overseeing charter schools, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money to open charter schools that closed within months.

When public schools close and charters open, teachers unions become weaker.

I should also mention putting sanctions in place to prevent the really squirrely practice of * authorizer hopping, * where schools are closed by one authorizer and then find another authorizer, which has happened quite a bit in places where oversight has been really weak, like Ohio.

Chicago researchers tracked students from closed schools and found that most ended up in academically weak schools and, except for the few students attending high - scoring schools, were no better off academically one year later (de la Torre & Gwynne, 2009).