Sentences with phrase «destabilizing schools»

«The superintendent has taken a method that was supposed to deal with the very few teachers that may be causing really significant problems and turned that method into a broad way of creating a climate of fear among teachers and destabilizing schools.»

The evidence demonstrates that turnarounds produce at best temporary small increases in test scores, but at the high cost of destabilizing schools and communities in the long run.

But UTLA chief Warren Fletcher, no fan of the law, warned that the union was «watching what happens at 24th Street and other schools — watching to see if it destabilizes the schools.»

But UTLA chief Warren Fletcher stepped in it by saying in April that the union was «watching what happens at 24th Street and other schools — watching to see if it destabilizes the schools.»

«Turnaround» strategies hurt school performance by destabilizing the school community.

School restructuring: Should we use a re-opener to put guardrails on the District's ability to reconstitute and destabilize schools?

Not exact matches

A study led by researchers from the Ivey Business School, University of Oxford, and Claremont Graduate University for the first time has shown that testosterone directly impacts financial decisions that drive prices up and destabilize markets.

In April, 1967 pesticide waste injected by a chemical plant at Denver's Rocky Mountain Arsenal destabilized a seismic fault, causing a magnitude 5.0 earthquake — strong enough to shatter windows and close schools — and jolting scientists with newfound risks of injection, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

State officials and courts have already grappled with many of these issues, and creating a federal right to education would destabilize policies and decisions that have shaped local school systems for generations,» they say, noting that unlike the federal Constitution, all 50 state constitutions contain provisions that explicitly address education.

While consumer choice would drive improvement, it is likely that, absent government oversight, data - cooking and exclusion of hard - to - educate students by a subset of schools would destabilize the entire arrangement.

Democratic honchos qualify their support for charter schools by asserting that they «should not replace or destabilize traditional public schools» — not a good sign since it is impossible for charters to enroll more students without contraction elsewhere.

Much of that conversation is familiar, but one assertion made by critics, namely that school closures destabilize entire neighborhoods, raises a question that hasn't been discussed nearly enough.

This pattern contributes to high retraining costs for school districts and to destabilizing and costly turnover rates.

Opponents feel, however, that since charter schools can only serve a small segment of students, they only reinforce economic and racial segregation, and actually destabilize the communities they claim to want to help.

Instead, the privatization movement nonchalantly closes the schools attended by poor children and destabilizes their lives.

In a raucous meeting, parents, community organizers and students from as far away as California detailed how school closings are disrupting lives and destabilizing neighborhoods.

We believe that high quality public charter schools should provide options for parents, but should not replace or destabilize traditional public schools.

But when they grow to the point of drawing away significant funding from school districts, some opponents say they destabilize those districts and cause important educational services to be cut.

DeVos» involvement in education has been to bankroll efforts to destabilize, defund and privatize public schools.

Vouchers have been a destabilizing force for families and public schools in this city for decades.

violating the rights of those teachers and destabilizing those other schools.

While the bill isn't all that we had hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coschool closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the country.

Public schooling is «in a crisis only so far as society is and only so far as this new narrative of crisis has destabilized it,» she adds.

Because they invariably have a high percentage of new hires, the lowest performing schools usually take the brunt of the layoffs under this system, destabilizing them further by requiring a revolving door of substitutes.

School closures have a destabilizing effect on the entire community, as the schools closed were often anchors of the neighborhood.

While the new law isn't all we hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coschool closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the country.

When a classmate misses school or behaves unusually due to fears about immigration enforcement, it can destabilize a classroom and interrupt learning for all students.

Even in suburban areas, vouchers could destabilize public schools.

The education space was (and still is) experiencing high turnover of educational leaders in struggling schools, which creates a profoundly destabilizing effect on the teachers and students who are most at risk.

Their area of expertise is restructuring school district budgets so dollars follow students, which potentially destabilizes smaller schools and schools with declining enrollment.

Newark closed a half - dozen schools last year Anderson's first and activists filed a federal civil rights complaint that the closures were destabilizing neighborhoods and targeting minority and especially low - income populations.

This plan undermines Milwaukee Public Schools and destabilizes our community.

Underfunding and the rise of charter schools and standardized testing have worked to destabilize and disenfranchise low - income communities of color across the country.

The organizers rallied outside Pittsburgh Public School Headquarters in support of community schools as an alternative to the status quo of «poor education policies that destabilize our communities,» said parent Pamela Harbin.

Third Way laments that school choice could «destabilize district financial planning.»

The conference will also include «core training,» which, according to the program's introductory letter, will «offer concrete guidance on three pressing issues: countering the destabilizing threat of Parent Trigger, understanding teacher evaluation, and building better schools through community and political organizing.»

Reformers have been less concerned about school closures in communities of color; more willing «to destabilize the democratic institutions»; more concerned about cutting costs; more willing to subject poor children of color to unproven experiments; less concerned about ensuring the presence of experienced, well - qualified teachers and small classes; more willing to impose test - driven curricula; less concerned about kids pushed out of school; and more willing to privatize education.

«The Tea Party is using the frustration with the implementation as the guise to eliminate standards in schools and to destabilize public education,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second - largest teachers union.

High rates of teacher turnover can destabilize the learning environment in schools, disrupting instructional continuity in classrooms and jeopardizing the educational experience of students, many of whom are already at a disadvantage (Shields et al., 1999; Loeb et al., 2005).

He shows his usual obeisance to the idea of making public education a market rather than a public trust, to blaming rather than respecting educators, and to ideas that have failed to help children everywhere they've been tried but instead, in their wake, have hurt kids by leaving public schools destabilized and their budgets drained.»

Standardized tests are being used to measure things they can not measure, like school quality and teacher effectiveness, with deleterious results; such as massive school closures, which destabilize children and communities, and the current troubling shortage of students willing to enter the teaching profession.

While the DeVos were unsuccessful in pushing school vouchers in Michigan, they were successful in creating an unregulated, wild - west charter sector in Michigan that has destabilized predominately minority school districts in the state.

Instead, the spread of charter schools has drained the neighborhoods and destabilized the infrastructure, the soul of the system.

The group alleges that some of the measures, particularly closing neighborhood schools, have «sabotaged and destabilized» education for many children.

I think, however, as they are constituted right now, they are for - profit centers that can turn away any child at random, and in some cases are used as a way to destabilize the public schools.

This will have a destabilizing effect on both schools.

The amped - up rhetoric of crisis and failure everywhere is being used to promote business - model reforms that are destabilizing even in successful schools and districts.

When vacancies like these happen en masse, a school becomes destabilized because a revolving door of substitutes is called to fill the vacated classrooms.

Uncontrollable rage destabilized the withdrawer (Richard) and rippled down to the three home - schooled children.