Sentences with phrase «failing public schools use»

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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.

Charter schools in Michigan are failing to use their freedom from state and local regulations to forge new directions in public education, according to a report released last week by Michigan State University.

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

Earlier this week, Stephanie Saul of the New York Times launched a full frontal assault on scholarship tax credit (STC) programs, accusing them of failing to help low - income students, draining public schools of needed funding, and of using public money for private purposes.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

For sure, some of the author's analysis rings true: K — 12 education reformers sometimes try to scare the public and policymakers into action (think «A Nation at Risk»), and the Right may use the language of a «strict father» when arguing for testing, standards, and sanctions for failing schools.

Cleveland's Saint Martin de Porres High School accepts students who use state - issued vouchers to escape failing public schools.

«Far too often, school leaders fail to consider how technology might dramatically improve teaching and learning,» writes Ulrich Boser, the author of a Center for American Progress report on the use of digital technology in public schools.

Why have public schools failed so far to put all this fancy new technology to good use?

Q: Will private voucher and independent charter schools be graded using the same report cards as public schools, and what will be the consequences for a failing grade?

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

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 program's original intention was to award vouchers to students attending failing schools, but data shows the number students using the vouchers who never attended a public school grew.

Only when that has failed, should alternative measures be invoked, including state takeover and expanded use of public charter schools with consideration provided to hiring a qualified private contractor.

«It's not about public schools failing, it's about the idea that people are meddling and public schools aren't allowed to use and do the things we're supposed to do,» he said.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

Wendy Lecker puts her finger on two things of great importance: first, certain of the power brokers in public education in Connecticut are determined to increase the number of privately managed charter schools, and they are using every opportunity that presents itself — from the Sheff settlement to the Turnaround option in Obama's Race to the Top — to pursue just this goal; and second, a key factor in the advance of school privatization is «the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative... that our public education system is failing.»

Although these schools failed very the metric used to judge public schools, these charters were branded as «successes» and reauthorized.

Not to put too fine a point on it, the Louisiana Scholarship Program is a way to use state money to support failing, mainly Catholic, private schools, while reducing support for public education.

Such sentiments by Trump and DeVos, consistently expressed publicly, reinforce the myth that traditional public education is broadly failing students and that the answer is using public money for privately run and / or owned schools.

«So long as districts continue to ignore the crushing reality of the looming financial crisis at the hands of unfunded retiree liabilities, and so long as the Legislature fails to fundamentally overhaul the authorizing structure in California, we anticipate that powerful special interests will continue to use charter public schools as a red herring to avoid the hard decisions that lie ahead,» continued Marquez.

The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use the funds to build a database on public school teachers, as it had promised.

«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.»

Although this bill does require participating schools to submit student test results to the SGOs, it fails to require private schools to use the same tests as public schools.

But he acknowledges inconsistency on his own side among those who use test results to claim that public schools are failing.

Because the city's public schools have, over many years, failed to invest in proactive, positive approaches to discipline, they continue to use suspensions to deal with minor infractions.

While Connecticut's privately owned charter schools left the legislative session with a higher reimbursement rate for each student, more money for school equipment, and funds to expand the number of charter schools, Governor Malloy and the legislature failed to come up with the money need to maintain existing services at Connecticut's public magnet schools, let alone fill the extra magnet school classrooms that have been built and are ready to be used this coming September.

FUSE was created in 2012 as a management company that used public and private money to take over failing, inner - city public schools and operate them as public charter schools.

(Apart from cronyism, nepotism, failing free schools, fraudulent use of public funds, headteachers punishing children for their parents» failure to pay dinner money.....)

A voucher would give a kid a chance to opt out of a failing public school and use his education dollars to pay for a private school of his choice.

Now Perry and his private company have been granted two lucrative «charters,» both of them to be paid using tens of millions in public funds, even though Perry's school has consistently failed to educate its fair share of Latinos, those with English Language challenges and those with special education needs.

It's ironic that many Florida parents who use the Corporate Tax Credit Voucher, to leave their failing D or F schools, are not aware that private school they choose is not any better than the public school they are leaving.