Sentences with phrase «failing elementary schools in»

This year, Baltimore City Public Schools asked Commodore to give hands - on guidance to three failing elementary schools in the district.

I immediately found a job teaching breathtakingly underprivileged students in a persistently failing elementary school in Prince George's County, Md..

After Los Angeles Unified School District board members approved a Parent Trigger earlier this week, mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel refused to comment on the historic vote, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing elementary school in West Adams.

LA Unified has rejected a parent petition to take over a failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, reversing district policy and essentially asserting that no California school qualifies under the state «parent trigger» law.

The lack of data also played a notable role in the drama over 20th Street Elementary School, when LA Unified rejected a parent petition to take over the failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, asserting that no California school qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be failing.

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A Democratic - controlled Congress back in 2010 didn't have the political capital to pass gun laws (some Democrats have since said that was a mistake), and Congress failed to expand background checks in 2013 after the 2012 Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting.

I began to look beyond the cursing, and hear the substance of their hearts: an ego hurt by a son failing in elementary school, finances were so low they felt threatened of losing their car, anger that they hoped to change the world but only worked in a taxi, and so forth.

Some who appear «gifted» in elementary school (according to the best criteria) fail to manifest that in any significant way once they get to high school.

The elementary school in Oregon's Willamina district set out last year to pick apart a complicated problem that would ultimately require an equally complicated solution: Many of its Native American students failed to show up on a regular basis.

An article in Science magazine last fall predicted that nearly 100 percent of all elementary schools in California would be failing schools by 2014.

They had failed one or more grades in elementary or middle school and were way behind in accumulating the 44 high school credits they needed to graduate.»

After her talk, an elementary school principal sought her out and complained that faculty members in Kentucky's colleges of education were bashing the state's reform effort and failing to train teachers to understand the new way of thinking.

... poor academic performance in middle school and even elementary school can decrease a student's motivation in high school, which can lead to failing courses and skipping school,... [and] dropping out.

Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Florida Fails Children of Miami - Dade County «Our anticipated gains in the number of foreign - born students alone will require us to build one elementary school a month just to keep up,» Roger C. Cuevas, Miami - Dade County school superintendent, told Education World.

I learned recently that when the top - flight principal left my childhood elementary school within 2 years all the good teachers quit, turning the school from excellent when my parents bought their house to failing by the time I was in second grade.

That grant helped establish the STEM center, but also led to a longer school day for at - risk students in four elementary schools and an intervention program designed to help middle school students in danger of failing math.

After NCLB's first year, most elementary schools in the famously troubled Flint failed to meet the standard.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Examining the days forfeited to snow and other «unscheduled closings» in Maryland in 2002 - 2003, he concluded that two - thirds of the elementary schools that failed to make «adequate yearly progress» (the federal benchmark under «No Child Left Behind») in math that year would have done so «if they had been open during all scheduled school days.»

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Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

This means that elementary and middle schools across the state will either fail to follow the legal reporting standards or will be required to distribute final report cards twice in one month.

The district fared no better in its case against elementary school special education teacher Gloria Hsi, despite allegations that included poor judgment, failing to report child abuse, yelling at and insulting children, planning lessons inadequately and failing to supervise her class.

As principal, he rallied his team to transform a failing elementary school into a B - rated school in just one year.

When her dyslexic second - grader landed in a failing public elementary school in Pittsburgh, single mother Jamie Fitzpatrick spotted trouble right away.

Two elementary school principals involved in a failed bid this spring to convert New Orleans» remaining traditional schools to charters have filed paperwork saying they want to take over their schools.

On the English and reading side, the root cause of the gap in scores is the relative lack of exposure low - income students have to knowledge and vocabulary, starting from birth — a deficit elementary schools usually reinforce by failing to focus on building students» knowledge.

Thirty - seven California school districts — which together educate more than 1 in 5 elementary students in the state — agreed to a settlement in April in a lawsuit that alleged the districts failed to provide elementary students with the minimum number of physical education minutes required by the California Education Code.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

Since it is known that receiving low grades in elementary school is a predictive factor for dropping out during middle school and that receiving more than one failing grade in a core academic course during ninth grade is a predictive factor for dropping out during high school, tutoring can make a difference.29 Providing access to tutoring to improve students» grades before they are at risk for dropping out could help them to complete further schooling, which, in turn, increases their likelihood of finding employment and earning a family - sustaining salary in adulthood.