Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional school»

This strategy has protected the status quo in dysfunctional schools.

Third, the state needs an actionable plan to turn around its most dysfunctional schools: the bottom 5 percent.

And how do we «fix» our endlessly dysfunctional school accountability system?

And instead, we poured the money into dysfunctional schools that, in all likelihood, look the same today as similar high - poverty, low - performing schools that didn't get the money.

De Blasio's expensive Renewal program to fix dysfunctional schools has utterly failed to turn them around.

«People will not like, necessarily, what I have to say, but I'm a person who is trying to get my arms around a totally dysfunctional school district which is not performing,» Paladino said.

«That laissez - faire attitude left Michigan families with a deeply dysfunctional school system that continues to fail kids.

Can NCLB's accountability mechanisms be made more precise, so that they would compel significant reconstitution in chronically dysfunctional schools without catching in the net schools that, while in need of improvement, do not require dramatic reconstitution?

If states didn't insist on helping all schools equally, they could afford the Cadillac versions that high - poverty dysfunctional schools need.

Third, a fascinating twist to all of this may be that Rhee's defeat — and the defeat of three like - minded reformers running for the New York legislature — may start to convince a larger number of would - be reformers that no one can really change dysfunctional school systems as they exist.

To be sure, it's because dysfunctional schools and systems are implementing discipline reform poorly, just like they implement so many other initiatives poorly.

When bad schools get off, their students are denied opportunities (what we unfortunately now call «sanctions») that might lead to a better education, including the chance to attend a different school, or receive supplemental services, or simply obtain assurance that the workings of a perennially dysfunctional school will be addressed and corrected.

At SIG's onset, I went on the record predicting it would end as a monumental, possibly historic, waste of precious resources — investing billions of dollars in dysfunctional schools embedded in dysfunctional districts against the clear lessons of decades of research and experience.

Mr. Guggenheim calls dysfunctional schools «dropout factories.»

For school reformers and defenders of traditional public education these days, the Atlanta metropolitan area is better - known for the testing scandal that has engulfed Atlanta Public Schools, revealed the district's dysfunctional school governance, and led to Superintendent Beverly Hall's fall from grace.

The battle is furious and your support is needed now so students can quickly transfer from dysfunctional schools to ones that will put them on track to a successful future in college and the world of work.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

But public education will never fully succeed until we stop wringing our hands about how to get more great teachers into dysfunctional schools and start treating schools as organizations whose job it is to recruit, develop, and maintain high - performing teams.

states that get waivers still must adopt rigorous standards, fix dysfunctional schools, close the achievement gap between low and high performing students, and do a better job training and evaluating teachers..

Mentoring also is most likely to be mishandled and work least effectively in the most dysfunctional schools, the schools that have the hardest time holding on to new teachers.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

Before joining the board Carl Paladino had been railing for years against what he termed a dysfunctional school board, which at the time had a board majority of black women he labeled «the sisterhood.»

The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

Comer writes that when they begin with a dysfunctional school they might expect improvement in five years.

All those dysfunctional schools, «needing improvement» for years, all prior remedies exhausted — where else would parents turn but to charter schools?

Dysfunctional schools are generally a function of dysfunctional districts.

The motivation behind New Leaders was to supply new blood to cities that were reportedly facing shortages of qualified principals ready to turn around dysfunctional schools.

The proposed closure of 19 of the dysfunctional schools was attacked so relentlessly at public hearings — the teachers union supplied 50 buses to haul its supporters to the events — that an elected state court judge ruled in favor of the union and blocked the school closures on the flimsy grounds that the school district had not followed requisite procedures for assessing the educational impact of their closure.

Although it's hard to remember now, Boston public schools were in free fall a decade ago, with a dysfunctional school committee, a series of short - term superintendents, and a -LSB-...]

Although it's hard to remember now, Boston public schools were in free fall a decade ago, with a dysfunctional school committee, a series of short - term superintendents, and a rudderless education program.

In the late 1980s, he was principal of one of New York's most dysfunctional schools: P.S. 67, in the South Bronx.

Chenoweth suspects the high scores of the dysfunctional school she presents in contrast to her other successful schools «had not been attained in a legitimate way.»

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.»

I am not going to seal his future and no parent should be forced to take their child to a dysfunctional school.

Over time, I came to think of this as technology's Law of Amplification: While technology helps education where it's already doing well, technology does little for mediocre educational systems; and in dysfunctional schools, it can cause outright harm.

«If somebody has the power to take over that dysfunctional school board I will not stand in their way,» Hooks vowed.