Sentences with phrase «failing public schools»

She wants to let parents seize control of failing public schools and push out most of the staff.

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

The findings are likely to bolster critics of policies supporting charter schools and vouchers as the solution for failing public schools.

Another remedy may be expanding charter schools so that parents of children in failing public schools who can't afford private school have other options for their children.

Never mind that the body of empirical evidence suggests that choice helps not only the children who leave failing public schools but also those left behind.

This is particularly true for parents who are disadvantaged or trapped in failing public schools, for they have the most to gain from new opportunities.

Vouchers are necessary, it is asserted, to provide parents with the means of escape from failing public schools and, in so doing, stimulate government - run schools to improve.

That so many minority students could escape failing public schools did not deter Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, but it did engage the passions of black parents.

(Its carefully wrought wording should help its chances of passage: «Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended to allow the state to intervene in chronically failing public schools in order to improve student performance?»)

«I give this budget an «F» grade for failing public school students in California and across the nation,» Torlakson said in the statement.

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

The legislation also allows school districts to convert failing public schools into charter schools and for schools that are consistently failing to be forced by the state superintendent of public instruction to be converted to charter schools.

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

That's in direct conflict with the opinion of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R - Rochester, and the bill he backs that would force failing public schools to close and private schools to stop accepting voucher students.

De Blasio said the costs will make it difficult to fund current and future initiatives such as adding more police and fixing failing public schools.

Reforming failing public schools in poor neighborhoods is the first preventative step to future incarceration, Cuomo said.

In the chaos after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana opted to completely overhaul the city's failing public schools by putting them on the open market.

When the data is analyzed, the Vallas Turnaround Model is not a tribute to improving public education, but a lesson in privatization by replacing failing public schools with failing charter schools and creating a two - tiered education system where certain students get access to higher performing institutions, while leaving all the other students behind.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

New York's controversial receivership law that allows for the takeover of failing public schools withstood a court challenge by the teachers union, with a state Supreme Court judge this week rejecting a number of arguments aimed at deeming the statute unconstitutional.

In Buffalo last month, Cuomo said failing public schools should get the «death penalty.»

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.

In his 2015 State of the State address, Deal proposed an «Opportunity School District» (OSD) to help rejuvenate failing public schools and rescue children languishing in them.

Failing public schools affect all Americans.

When the General Assembly created a voucher program in 2011, the intention was to give low - income students «stuck» at failing public schools more choices when picking a school, by subsidizing private school tuition.

With a judge's ruling last week in Southern California, a group of parents has become the first in the country to take over their children's failing public school after pulling a «parent trigger.»

Hall County has been quietly transforming its schools into district - run charters, but not in the headline - catching fashion of places like New Orleans, where charters often grew atop failing public schools and came with wholesale staffing changes.

The Times» op - ed page followed up a day later with a chin - pulling editorial about a «devastating setback» to the Bush administration's plan to turn failing public schools into charters.

The teacher unions are running Tustin Councilmember Rebecca Gomez and Irvine School Board member Michael Parham against Hammond and Williams to replace the current majority with a board majority that will bring the OC Board back to the days when charter school application appeals are routinely denied no matter the quality and demand by parents for a viable alternative to sometimes failing public schools their children are enrolled in.

NYS can do better than Common Core which is tied to testing & failing public schools myth.

It means that the numbers of impoverished and disadvantaged students grow in numbers in those public schools and for some reason, «brilliant» businessmen like Bill Gates equates this scenario to continually failing public schools because of «bad» teachers.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government - funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice.

The Parent Trigger Law, a bipartisan effort passed in 2010, allows failing public schools, hobbled by union rules that include controls over teacher performance, work schedule, curriculum, administrative duties and requirements, to be transformed into independent public charter schools.

«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.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

It'll likewise set a precedent for all future Parent Trigger petitions filed at failing public schools across California.

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

But Indiana State Teachers Association president Nate Schnellenberger says he fears giving charters access to state money will create more entities dependent on government support, meaning the state will shortchange failing public schools serving the same low - income populations.

NASHVILLE — After clearing two legislative panels last week, a bill that would let low - income parents with children in failing public schools use taxpayer dollars to attend private institutions faces its next test this week.

«One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me «Superman» did not exist,» the educational reformer Geoffrey Canada recalls in the opening moments of «Waiting for «Superman,»» a powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system.

Taxpayer - funded vouchers have helped thousands of families escape failing public schools, but their structure limits their ability to create the kind of education market system that Milton Friedman advocated at the birth of the school - choice movement.

Also likely to fall would be the Florida A + program, which provides up to $ 3,472 for children who attend chronically failing public schools.