Sentences with phrase «concerns about failing schools»

Pardon my skepticism, but it feels like we have been here before with earlier programs designed to address concerns about failing schools, like A Nation at Risk and No Child Left Behind.

Not exact matches

Failed to address homophobia through Safe Schools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force: In 2003, then Education Minister Christy Clark convened a «Safe Schools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resiSchools Task Force» — their report acknowledged that concerns about homophobia figured prominently in submissions and that attempts to raise the issue of homophobia in schools often met with resischools often met with resistance.

This adds to the concern that Chartwells, whose parent company recently settled a $ 18 million court case for its failing to pass on rebates to NYC schools, is more concerned about earning a large profit margin than about the quality of the food it serves.

NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of EduSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Eduschools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efschools amid a diversification effort...

In several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupil.

March 17, 2016 Commissioner MaryEllen Elia New York State Education Department Education Building Room 111 89 Washington Avenue Albany, New York 12234 Dear Commissioner Elia: We are very concerned about the State Education Department's (SED) recent action that removed about half of the schools — 70 schools — from the state's failing schools transformation program.

«She is right to raise concerns about own - admission authority schools failing to meet the requirement of the code and about so - called fair banding.

One of my biggest concerns about ESSA has been its lack of a meaningful «safety valve» for kids in failing schools.

PN: While many public schools, especially in urban areas, are in dire need of reform, I am concerned that there is a lack of clarity about why past reforms have failed and insufficient understanding about the direction change must take if we are to obtain better results.

Brooks says he knows skipping state tests doesn't address broader concerns about labeling schools as «failing» and increasing influence of private companies in public education.

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

Objections range from the basic «it's too long» and «it's too stressful» side of the spectrum to weightier concerns about teachers being forced to teach to the test, racial and socioeconomic inequities, and private corporations taking over schools that, according to test results, are failing.

Beyond primary maths, he also has concerns about the reformed GCSE, which is not only more rigorous in content, but the level at which pupils must perform to get a «good pass» is being increased — meaning proportionally more children will «fail» the qualification this summer (an analysis by Schools Week suggests that about one in four pupils who currently pass their GCSE maths will «fail» under the new system).

A final element that should cause concern about cyber charter schools is that not only do massive cyber schools fail to provide effective services found in quality local public schools, but they also cripple efforts of local public schools to improve.

Nash - Rocky Mount Public Schools may be shrinking — at the startling rate of about 250 students per year since 2011 — but the myriad concerns about failing heating and air conditioning systems and ventilation have gone nowhere.

Last year, the schools minister Nick Gibb was criticised for failing to act to address concerns about the «postcode lottery» of summer - born admissions.

Yet, while these perpetual policies are forever meant to improve and reform America's «failing» public schools, we still have the same concerns about the same «failing» public schools despite 30 years of the same / similar attempts to reform them.

But if we're really concerned about quality — responding to Shelton — Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform Now (DFER), said we need to call for a «moratorium on the traditional public schools that have been failing [our children] for generations.»

«People concerned about Michigan's failing schools should be concerned about conventional schools,» said Audrey Spalding, education policy director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

The government is planning to increase their powers to intervene in failing and «coasting» local authority maintained schools, as well as academies, but concerns about their different approaches have been raised by organisations such as United Learning, an academy trust that runs schools in all eight regions.

Marano, even when she fails to persuade, makes us think hard about what parents should expect from their children and what kids need to become strong, happy, and healthy young adults... The saddest sections of the book are also the most persuasive and concern the exuberant, brave, elastic and exploratory ways children learn, and the increasingly rigorous and unforgiving expectations that burden school - age children.