Sentences with phrase «failing recovery school»

In 2013, Einstein took over a failing Recovery School District charter, Intercultural Charter School.

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In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

But some teachers and parents attribute that to a new «credit recovery» program that lets failing students retake courses after school.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

Just weeks after the storm, officials turned the city's failing schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

The 2005 legislation that designated New Orleans a district in crisis and placed more of its failing schools under state control gave the RSD five years to achieve recovery.

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

Well - known blogger Joanne Jacobs, for one, is skeptical that credit recovery can motivate students who've failed before: «I see potential for a game of let's pretend: Students pretend they've learned, online providers pretend they've taught and schools pretend all their graduates have a high school education.»

That's what critics call «credit recovery» education programs, which are increasingly used at high schools across New York as a way for struggling students to complete coursework online or using workbooks in subjects they've previously failed or in which they've fallen behind.

This might include early intervention for students who are at risk of failing Algebra I or any 9th - grade math class, credit recovery or targeting students with attention from graduation coaches in high school.

The education news site GothamSchools (now Chalkbeat New York) reported on a guidance counselor at New York's A. Philip Randolph High School, for example, who said she was instructed to enroll dozens of failing students in credit - recovery classes solely so they could earn their diplomas.

Recovery, Achievement, Opportunity, Transformation: these are the titles and aspirations of statewide «turnaround» school districts whose mission is to take over failing public schools and move them quickly to an acceptable range of performance.

Credit recovery is not a new phenomenon: long before the advent of the Internet, many districts offered afterschool, summer school, or paper - and - pencil correspondence classes to students who needed to make up a failed course.

The Recovery School District is infinitely superior to the failed urban district and, though the Achievement School District is still the understudy, we may soon see its name in lights.

LA Unified is wasting no time in getting students with poor or failing marks into its online credit recovery program at the start of the new school year.

In January, LA School Report reported that 42 percent of the graduating Class of 2016 took part in credit recovery either through re-taking courses they've failed or by using online credit recovery, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time.

In 2003, Louisiana created a different mechanism, linked to its school accountability system, to address chronically failing schools: the Recovery School District, oschool accountability system, to address chronically failing schools: the Recovery School District, oSchool District, or RSD.

School accountability legislation that placed failing schools under the control of a separate, state - level governing entity, the Recovery School District;

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New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

In addition, while the school system has an official credit - recovery program for students looking to make up for failed classes, some schools were found to have their own «unofficial» programs.

Modeled after failed attempts in other cities to create «Recovery» districts, the Takeover plan gives Means the authority to strip control of our schools from the publicly elected School Board.

Credit recovery courses (online)-- Online courses that allow students to make up failed credits needed for high school graduation or be on track to enter high school prepared to meet the demands of a college - preparatory curriculum.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

The new estimate does not reflect progress by a $ 15 - million credit recovery program begun last fall that puts students in specials classes after school and during breaks to help them pass classes they previously failed.

Currently, the Recovery district can take control of a failing school after four years without consulting families at all.

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After Katrina, the state Recovery School District took control of the city's schools, many of which were failing.

They say the state - run Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board are violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and «have failed to make a lawful determination as to whether your waste is hazardous...»

If made into law, the bill would return schools that were placed in the Recovery School District after Hurricane Katrina to the Orleans Parish School Board, provided the schools are no longer failing.

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The local school board fought to regain oversight of the recovery charters — actually making a legal bid to attempt to regain control of recovery schools no longer considered failing.

But there is a continuing debate over which of the two entities should provide broad oversight to the autonomous charters — the state - run Recovery School District or the Orleans Parish School Board, which had to surrender oversight of the failing schools.

If the initial goal of the recovery district was to swoop in, turn around failing schools and hand them back to the publicly elected school board in better shape, it hasn't gotten there yet.

Credit recovery (CR) refers to online courses that students take after previously failing a traditional version of the course, representing a shift from students repeating courses the following school year or earning course credit in an after school or summer school program.

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Schools with special - ed student populations of more than 50 percent and so - called credit recovery schools, where high - school students get a second chance at coursework they failed or didn't complete the first time around, would be Schools with special - ed student populations of more than 50 percent and so - called credit recovery schools, where high - school students get a second chance at coursework they failed or didn't complete the first time around, would be schools, where high - school students get a second chance at coursework they failed or didn't complete the first time around, would be exempt.

In Weber School District, students go through a process of credit recovery where students first work with the teacher of the class they failed.

But school employees in Atlanta have also reported pressure to inflate grades, particularly for students enrolled in online «credit recovery,» which allows students to make up failed courses.

Based on 2013 test scores, are the students who left the Recovery School District's four failing schools in better academic environments than before?

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California leaders, however, have failed to follow that leadership and enact a Golden State version of the Recovery School District to rescue thousands of California schools figuratively underwater.

At the high - school level, recent years have seen the spread of a dubious practice known as «credit recovery,» whereby young people who fail to complete required courses may retrieve the missing credits by taking online courses and kindred options that may or may not be equivalent in rigor and content to the ordinary courses that they finessed or flunked.

In January, LA School Report reported that 42 percent of the graduating Class of 2016 took part in credit recovery either through retaking courses they've failed or by using online credit recovery, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time.

In the online credit recovery program, students who failed or received a D in a course can take an accelerated online version of the course during free periods, after school, on Saturdays, at summer school or during vacation breaks.

Louisiana created the state - run Recovery School District to take over failing schools shortly before Katrina.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application failed to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.

Finally, the state has created an innovative alternative governance structure to turn around failing schools through the Recovery School District, which serves as a model for governance intervention across the nation.»

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application fails to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.