Sentences with phrase «failing public schools through»

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.

Not exact matches

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

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.

«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.»

The court also failed to distinguish the programs from other Arizona policies through which beneficiaries use public funds to attend private and religious schools.

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.»

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

Unfortunately, for every year a child who wants access to a public charter school who is stuck on a waitlist or without a school nearby, we're failing to follow through on the vision lawmakers had twenty years ago.

Well, for a cynical view, look at the political cover it provides: Long - failing public schools are required to be «restructured,» a process Rhee is going through currently with several DCPS schools.

The Republican presidential nominee and founder of Trump University accused Democrats of trapping black and Hispanic youth in failing public schools and offered the postern door of school choice through a proposed block grant, voucher - like program in which per pupil expenditures would follow students to the school of their parents» liking.

Through your advocacy for public education, you can help shift the national narrative from «public schools are failing and choice is the solution» to a counternarrative with broader appeal.

New Orleans public schools have become a national model as it has transformed its failed public school system primarily through an emphasis on high - accountability, open - admission, high - standards charter schools.

8 — length, in years, of study of Milwaukee's school voucher program that found that vouchers did not raise overall academic performance and failed to raise public school achievement through competition, as many conservatives had claimed they would.

Through the identification of low performance defined by a single «F» or «D» and the acceleration of the process to demonstrate improvement or closure - like options, Florida will witness a proliferation of failing schools whose children will need to be served in other educational settings outside of traditional public education.

How best to help 77,000 children at perpetually failing K - 12 public schools sharply divided the Florida House on Thursday, as the chamber's Republican majority pushed through a controversial $ 200 million spending plan to attract specialized, high - performing charter schools to Florida that would offer an alternative to — and potentially supplant the role of — struggling neighborhood schools.

Absolutely, too many vulnerable students are trapped in unsafe and / or low performing schools, through compulsory education laws, that intentionally or unintentionally fail to meet their educational and life needs in many traditional public schools.

In the New York Times, Jennifer Medina writes about a topic that our own Ben Boychuk has chronicled at length: the effort to reform California schools through a trigger mechanism, which allows dissatisfied parents to convert failing public institutions into charter schools.

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson plans to essentially re-write the Parent Trigger law, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing school through a petition drive.

When schools fail to consider and provide for needed behavioral supports through the Individualized Education Program (IEP), it is likely to result in children not receiving the free appropriate public education to which they are entitled under federal law.

Parent Trigger is a new law, barely passed through the state Legislature under former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in January, that allows 51 percent of any failing public school's parents to take over the school in one of four ways.

After failing third grade twice in a public school, Denisha was able to get into a non-public school through Florida's scholarship tax credit program.

The Mind Trust supports the launch of fully autonomous Innovation Network Schools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools through the Innovation School Fellowship, a fellowship for individuals seeking to open new schools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools or restart chronically failing schools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sSchools (IPS), and Educator Empowerment Awards to help high - performing IPS schools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their sschools convert to Innovation Network School status to give them full autonomy to lead their schoolsschools.

Knowing that Malloy and his administration have the propensity to duck the truth, it will not be surprising to many people that Malloy failed to inform the media, the public or the legislature that the State Board of Education's newest member, Erik Clemons, has an extensive and long - standing relationship with the charter school industry and is the President and CEO of a company that directly benefits from a large state contract that is funded through the State Department of Education.

And yet, the vast majority of urban public schools in the United States fail to provide students with the expectations, academic preparation, or social support necessary to make it to and through college.