Sentences with phrase «failing district schools»

Yet in most urban communities the number of available «choice» seats is very small when stacked up against the number of kids in failing district schools.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

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

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

Nelson Smith explains why, if failing district schools are to reopen and become successful charter schools, they need first to close.

The idea that Black families who live in the catchment area of a perpetually failing district school system would be denied choice is unfathomable.

The head of Parent Revolution said today that LA Unified has reversed course, lifting the ban on using the «Parent Trigger» law this year to overhaul failing district schools.

Massachusetts charter schools bill themselves in television ads as golden opportunities for disadvantaged students trapped in failing district schools, but charters often leave behind one of the most challenging student populations to teach: those who lack fluency in English.

The result is more students in New York City are out of failing district schools and in good public charter schools.

Capping charters in a certain neighborhood, for instance, is a shot aimed directly at parents in Harlem — where a proliferation of charters is starting to offer real alternatives to failing district schools.

But if an RSD - like body takes over failing district schools and converts them to charters (like in New Orleans), or if a non-district authorizer creates a substantial charter sector (like in D.C.), many public schools will forever exist outside of the locally elected board's influence.

In a stinging rebuke, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's «disingenuous» attempt to use a decades - old desegregation lawsuit to curb or control Louisiana's voucher program for low - income students assigned to failing district schools.

The reason shutting down a failing district school is all but impossible is because the school exists for the purposes of the school district which has many more purposes then educating kids.

So the state doesn't close down failing district schools.

We are pleased to share that the Fillmore Unified School District (Fillmore) refused to challenge the ruling which found in favor of the teachers the district retaliated against for their efforts to convert a failing district school to a charter - giving finality to the decision.

The Bloomberg administration wanted to «flood the zone» in Harlem with alternatives to failing district schools.

With no space available in charter schools, the vast majority of these waitlisted students are forced to remain in failing district schools, which provide no hope of an effective education.