Sentences with phrase «failing public school if»

«Transparency» appears to be the new political controversy over California's Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to make changes at a chronically failing public school if they pull off a successful petition drive.

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Something I learned in public school that is being confirmed in my adult life: if you color outside the lines you will Fail!

«If you happen to be born in the wrong zip code and go to a failing public school, you can get left behind and never catch up.

According to the governor, the doorman told him, «in my neighborhood the public schools are failing, and if I don't get my son into a charter school I have no options.»

When families inquire about the school, Hecker's assistant asks families to what public school their children would be assigned and then walks them through the voucher application if they're assigned to a failing one.

If we are in a situation where the details of the law end up identifying over half of the public schools as being low - performing or failing, then we've got a problem.

A public statement followed by a series of activities to promote more high - quality schools could drive improvement from the ground up if state leaders continue to fail to act.

The late Appleton, Wisconsin, superintendent Tom Scullen supported charters within his district but cautioned, «Charter schooling will fail if it tries to become a second track of public education.

If schools failed to make adequate progress, officials had to explain themselves to reporters, parents, and the public at large.

So, if this language goes through, to receive Charter School Program funds, states will now need to «provide for intervention, revocation, or closure of the public chartering agencies and charter schools that fail to meet... standards and procedures.»

It allows students living anywhere in Ohio to apply for a voucher to attend private school if they've been slated to a failing public school.

If a voucher proposal is directed toward families with students attending failing schools, 51 % of the public favors the idea; just 35 % is opposed.

Under NCLB, if a school has failed to meet the law's accountability provisions two years in a row, parents have the option of sending their child to a higher - performing public school within the same district.

If a Title I school fails to meet AYP standards for a third year, students from low - income families in the school must be offered the opportunity to receive instruction from a supplemental educational services provider of their choice, in addition to continuing to be offered public school choice options.

There is no need to protect and defend a system of public schools if those schools fail to serve the purpose for which they were conceived and constructed.

If the detractors of school choice suggest shutting down the program because one report found negative one - year results, they would presumably advocate for shutting down the chronic failing public schools in D.C., for the negative results there are far more numerous and long - term.

If a school fails to meet annual state test - score goals for two years, students can transfer to another public school in the district.

What happens if all the high - performing schools in a district are full and can't take the children who were granted public school choice because their own school failed two years in a row?

PN: While many public schools, especially in urban areas, are in dire need of reform, I am concerned that there is a lack of clarity about why past reforms have failed and insufficient understanding about the direction change must take if we are to obtain better results.

The Allentown Morning Call wrote Sunday that «Corbett said he wants vouchers «aimed at failing schools,» where parents, if they choose, «should be able to go the public school next door... or that private school... and take that money and get that opportunity.»

It also would have allowed an unlimited number of «conversion» charters: existing public schools converted to charters if they failed to make adequate progress on test scores...

(Interesting to note that when failing traditional public schools are closed in Philadelphia and Chicago, the teachers unions and their fellow travelers scream, but if a charter school closes — nary a peep from them.)

«If Wisconsin is serious about improving schools, we must stop expanding this failing voucher program and instead invest in public schools that provide opportunity to all students, regardless of their zip codes.»

A + Updates A year after the release of If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great, A + reviewed APS» progress on the report's recommendations.

Alternatively, when Clarksdale Collegiate opens, it will be the result of a rigorous application process and accountable to its public — unlike other Clarksdale public schools, it must close if it fails to deliver on its promises.

When lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarships program back in 2013 to allow children from low - income families the chance to use public dollars at private schools, they included accountability provisions in the law that fail to let the public know if these privately - operated schools are better — or worse — options than public schools.

The expansion does allow students to skip public school entirely if their public school receives a failing grade from the state.

So, if it's OK for them to flee failing public schools, why criticize poor people for doing the same thing?

Unlike public school teachers, if we fail to cut the mustard, we can be laid off.

The nonprofit organization can have its charter revoked if the students fail to measure up to their peers in the public school system for two consecutive years.

If the measure passes, it would allow failing or struggling public schools to be transformed into charter schools.

The school choice rallying cry that suggests the nation's most vulnerable children are trapped by failing schools has ushered in a sentiment that it may be time to try something new, if not abandon some traditional public schools.

When public charter schools fail to meet their goals — whether for academic, financial or operational reasons — they should be closed, even if we have invested federal dollars in them.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

A year after the release of If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great, it is time to reflect on the progress the district has made toward fulfilling the coalition's recommendations.

If anything, there should be a moratorium on failing traditional public schools, he said.

«If Congress does not act now,» he said, «our inaction will transform the U.S. secretary of education into a waiver - granting czar over an unworkable law that has identified what he says may be as many as 80,000 «failing» public schools.»

At the risk of being overly harsh, I have to wonder if the purpose of vouchers is to create «sacrificial lambs» i.e. sending some students off to fail in private schools so those remaining in public schools will do better.

But if we're really concerned about quality — responding to Shelton — Shavar Jeffries, president of Democrats for Education Reform Now (DFER), said we need to call for a «moratorium on the traditional public schools that have been failing [our children] for generations.»

Under «parent trigger,» if a majority of parents at a public school that is supposedly «failing» sign a petition, the school can be converted into a charter school.

Petrilli believes that if parents can be made angry and convinced that public education and public schools are «failing», it will then pave the way for acceptance and a smooth implementation of Common Core.

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If the union boss is successful in his mission, taxpayers will be soaked even more than they are now and many of our most vulnerable children will be forced back into failing public schools.

In 2015, A + Colorado and a coalition of Aurora - based community groups came together to inform the Aurora community and offer recommendations in the report If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great.

She felt as if the public school was forcing her to meet lower expectations, to fail.

When weighing finances with philosophies, if students aren't failing in the traditional schools, most parents believe the public schools are good enough and offer their children socializing experiences that they can't get in schools that are too small.

Charter schools are tuition - free, open enrollment, public schools of choice.1 Unlike traditional public schools, which are governed by local boards of education, charter schools are governed by independent, nonprofit boards and are accountable to an authorizing entity, which may close them if they fail to meet the goals delineated in their charter contract.

If these ballot initiatives fail, budget cuts will force public schools» hands in making more tough decisions, and it may take decades to recover if they do at alIf these ballot initiatives fail, budget cuts will force public schools» hands in making more tough decisions, and it may take decades to recover if they do at alif they do at all.

IDRA's research also shows that vouchers do little if anything to improve local public schools and, for the most part, fail to deliver on promises to provide better quality academic outcomes for students enrolled in lower performing public schools.

Go Jen — of course — and I plan to operate on my neighbor tomorrow — it's only a little heart problem — should be able to do it — and if I fail well so what — then I can run a bank and make millions of dollars even if I fail — but teachers (gods chosen selfless few) care for all of our kids and are the real hero's in this world — I am so thankful that my two daughters attend public schools and have been nurtured by those who have chosen a profession of giving and not one of taking — if you can read this post — thank your teachers — I am grateful for mine everyday — Thanks Ms Weigh K - Ms Brown Gr1 - Ms Shea Gr2 - Ms.