Sentences with phrase «failing districts»

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.

We have talked with families who are in failing districts but simply can not move.

As a result, large numbers of failing district and charter schools continue to operate.

«I feel it should be in chronically failing districts where families have no choices and where children are prisoners of their own poverty,» he said.

Several states have struggled to improve failing districts even after decades of control.

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

In its long - awaited, 600 - page report, the Fiscal Crisis Management and Assistance Team — the state's troubleshooters for failing districts — found the 53,000 - student system «in need of immediate and dramatic management assistance.»

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.

Addressing the press at the district capital, Apam, the NPP constituency chairman, Bismark Nkum said «the ruling NDC has woefully failed the district in all the six indicators used for the survey.»

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

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.

This «award» has been feting failed districts for more than a decade now, and it shamefully crowned as this year's winner Houston, where about one in ten African American eighth graders can read proficiently.

The problems in Detroit are entirely predictable when choice is left largely untended and then layered onto an already failing district and a distressed parent population.

Failing districts often use resources in a manner that runs counter to the evidence about the practices that most improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning in the classroom.

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.

So let's celebrate school choice, but let's also be as outraged about its shortcomings as we are about failing districts.

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.

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.

Therefore, the Parental Choice in Education Act will support important alternatives for parents across the state — especially important for low - income families and families living in overcrowded or failing districts.

Despite their importance as alternative options for parents and students in failing districts, many parochial schools in New York State are experiencing financial hardship, and parents can face steep costs to enroll their children in such 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.

That's because they've all kept in place the failed district structure.

A good example relates to local protests when a state takes over a failing district.

Some have begun to ask, «What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools into the failing districts?»

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.

For example, in Alaska, the court ruled that state funding was adequate, but ordered the state to improve its monitoring of failing districts.

Instead, the failed district continues to dominate the landscape, serving as tragically low - performing operator and sole (and inept) charter authorizer.

«But to single us out in legislation and say, «We're uniquely a failing district and, therefore, we need to legislate,» is really an excuse to hide political motive.»

It's true that teaching kids who live in poverty, running a highly effective school, and turning around a failing district are incredibly tough jobs.

The emergence of SEA support of districts is linked to the new concept of districts in distress, arising from the NCLB requirement for school improvement plans for «failing districts.»

There are 115,000 Mississippi students trapped in failing districts that desperately need a way out.

It would provide opportunity scholarships to low - income children in a failing district to attend a better school, including some here in Harrisburg.

Across the country, more than half of all states have laws that allow the state to take over failing districts.

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.

Proposition 39, charter renewal and revocation regulations, the high school exit exam, statewide benefit charters and the state's response to failing districts and schools in the wake of No Child Left Behind - these are just a few of the issues the California State Board of Education (SBE) took on during Dr. Yvonne Chan's seven - year tenure on the board.