Sentences with phrase «converting failed district»

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

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The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

It would also allow school districts to convert an unlimited number of failing public schools into charter schools or — in cases of severely failing schools — authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to force public schools to convert.

The legislation also allows school districts to convert failing public schools into charter schools and for schools that are consistently failing to be forced by the state superintendent of public instruction to be converted to charter schools.

State superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz, a former superintendent of Whitnall and Beloit school districts, said he is «adamantly opposed» to immediately converting «failing schools» into charter or private voucher schools or closing them.

Gov. Nathan Deal is proposing a new state school district that would take over failing schools and, possibly, convert them into charter schools.

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 organDistrict 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 organdistrict school to one operated by a charter management organization.