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.
Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far
more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the
failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's
public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
Over the next three years the demographics of the 700 - student
school changed dramatically according to administrators, from roughly 2 % African - American to
more than 30 %, many of them from
failing public schools.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a
more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high
school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising
public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that
fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
With
more rigorous assessment tests this year creating concerns that the number of
failing students could rise, Chicago
Public Schools plans to revamp its promotion policy for third -, sixth - and eighth - graders.
«It's a shame that Congress seems
more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and
failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the
school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the
Public Interest in a press release
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.
Cuomo should invite him to tag along — and then drop by a few of the 371 New York City
public schools where 90 % or
more of the pupils
fail to meet minimal state standards in reading and math.
Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City
public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a
more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd
failed, according to the paper.
«
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.»
July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark
Public Schools spent
more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but
failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.
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.
It alleges that a review of the research on charter
schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter
schools: 1)
fail to raise student achievement
more than traditional district
schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to district
schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than district
schools; and 5) spend
more on administration and less on instruction than
public schools.
Of its 500 - plus students,
more than 400 were slated to attend a
failing Youngstown
public school, making them eligible for the EdChoice program.
Blaine ultimately
failed in his effort to amend the U.S. Constitution to bar
public aid to «sectarian»
schools, but most states adopted a version of his proposed amendment, and
more than two - thirds of the 50 states have a Blaine amendment on the books today.
Currently, about one - third of all
public schools in the nation —
more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as
failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»
-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty
School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage
Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014
Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County
Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014
Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte
schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools pay
more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter
schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y.,
schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?
Pay Teachers
More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers
More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and
More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach
More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012
Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from
Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find
More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing
Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter
School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter
School Research from
Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010
Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving
Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix
Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Design a
school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school that pays
more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013
Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing
failing charter
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays
more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter
school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
school study shows the steps to great
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — No
schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now
School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?
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.
A ruling against the tax credits would jeopardize not only the hopes children desperate to escape
failing public schools, but also educational support for
more than 15,000 other students.
More than half of the Washoe County
public schools had been labeled «in need of improvement» for
failing to get enough students to proficiency on the state standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind Law.
When a state judge scolded the governor in 2011 for underfunding
public schools by $ 1.6 billion, Christie's spokesman scoffed at «the
failed assumption of the last three decades that
more money equals better education.»
More recently, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dedicated its considerable energies to persuading the
public and policy makers that the nation's
public schools are
failing.
Fewer than one percent of voucher students now come from
failing public schools, and
more than half never attended
public school at all.
In any case, says Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing
Public Education at the University of Washington, it takes
more than a few vouchers or mayoral control to turn around a
failing school system.
Her trenchant observation gets at the heart of one major failure of federal and state education policy: the unwillingness or inability of
public officials to invest
more resources (fiscal, political, and entrepreneurial) into
failing schools.
More than a third of Washington students who entered
public high
school as freshmen in the class of 2003
failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002.
More than a third of the Washington state students who entered
public high
school as freshmen in the class of 2003
failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002, a state education official said yesterday.
More than one out of every five charter campuses (21.1 percent)
failed to achieve the «met standard» or the «alternative standard,» or were «not rated» compared to fewer than one out of every 10
public school campuses (9.6 percent).
It provided fairer funding for existing
public charter
school students, cleared the way for
more new
public charter
schools to open across the state and created a Commissioner's Network to turn around chronically
failing public schools.
In spite of the sincere efforts that have been made to date to spur innovation in teaching and learning in the traditional
public school sector, the data show that just infusing
more per - pupil
public school spending in the past has
failed to propel the U.S. beyond its peer countries on international rankings of student achievement.
But we know a lot
more about these innovative
public schools since the last
failed measure in 2004.
Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer
more parents the opportunity to opt out of
failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of
public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter
schools.
The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for
more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in
failing public schools.
Ten years of good intentions — with
more rules and greater resources — have
failed to dramatically improve our
public school system.»
Or
more accurately, she happened upon a raucous protest outside of a
failing public school in which Harlem Success, already filled to capacity, had requested space.
The
public school system has mostly
failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter
school concept:
public schools that would be independent from
school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and
more accountable for results.
A city study — undertaken after media reports revealed the situation — found that
more than 900 of 2,758 students who graduated from a D.C.
public school last year either
failed to attend enough classes or improperly took makeup classes.
Each would significantly scale back the federal role in
public education, giving states far
more latitude to determine which
schools are
failing to serve students and what should be done about them.
The state, which took over the McDowell
public schools nearly a decade ago, has
failed to make much of a dent in the county's abysmal test scores and a dropout rate
more than three times the national average.
But despite
more than 50,000 certified teachers and administrators, Governor Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor chose to put Connecticut's «Alliance Districts» in the hands of an individual who has consistently
failed to do what is legally required of Connecticut's real
public school teachers and administrators.
With
more than 5,000
failing public schools in the United States, there is a tremendous need for strong alternatives for parents and students.
NCLB has brought needed attention to equity in education and
more scrutiny to
failing public schools.
And without major changes in how the state and federal government fund these needs,
public schools in the state and nationwide are likely to become increasingly
more stratified, with older,
failing facilities chockablock in low - income and fast - growing
school districts.
As Texas Aspires Chairman and former Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams said, «It saddens me to see the representatives of a civil rights group become so embattled in the national politics of education that they
fail to see the promise of
more funding for all
public schools or the great work so many charters are doing with students of color».
Unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory because the Common Core SBAC test
fails to measure what has actually been taught in the classroom, that the SBAC test is based on materials that is
more than two to three levels above grade level, that the SBAC test pass /
fail score is calibrated to
fail the majority of
public schools students and that the SBAC test is particularly unfair because it discriminates against those who face English Language barriers or need special education services.
Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «
school system» to a «system of
schools», with comprehensive traditional
public school choice, expanded charter
school capability, access to
more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in
failing schools.
Finally, Ravitch suggests the narrative that our
schools have
failed and need reform is
more harmful to students and the country than any of the reformers» perceived ills in
public education.
Now the Mississippi outreach coordinator for the Washington D.C. - based Black Alliance for Educational Options, Powell crisscrosses the state talking to parent groups and Jackson lawmakers advocating to give parents
more options when the
public schools — no matter how good they are —
fail their child.