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Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

In a new article for Education Next, Boston College professor Shep Melnick says OCR is on shaky legal ground, since its «Letter» fails to take into account the landmark Rodriguez v. San Antonio Board of Education (1973), which ruled that neither the Constitution nor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 require equal distribution of school resources across school districts.

Or the state could simply require that districts that fail to reduce costs responsibly get out of the property - ownership business, either by having the state assume ownership, by placing the buildings into a third - party trust, or by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rights.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

Andy Smarick makes a compelling argument that we would be better off closing failing schools, but he doesn't take into account the stark reality that often urban districts simply have too many «failing schools» to close them all.

We are failing to leverage the immense knowledge of our content experts in schools, districts and state initiatives, and at the same time, failing to continuously develop those content experts so they may move into meaningful leadership roles in which they expand the scope of their impact by supporting and developing others.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

What the AFT fails to acknowledge is that charter schools are more likely than district schools to promote integration, since in most charter schools white and minority kids take the same courses, while in many district schools minority kids are placed into nonacademic tracks.

Some have begun to ask, «What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools into the failing districts?»

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

Atlanta District Rolls Out New Grade - Changing Rules District Dossier: Superintendent Meria Carstarphen launched an investigation into grade changing after an internal investigation found that one high school principal changed more than 100 student grades from failing to passing.

It would also allow school districts to convert an unlimited number of failing public schools into charter schools or — in cases of severely failing schools — authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to force public schools to convert.

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.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

The Illinois State Board of Education has launched an investigation into why so many kids in certain districts skipped state exams last year — which may include questioning parents and even students after several hundred schools failed test participation requirements.

Sometimes, children are forced into a failing school simply because their parents live in a certain district and that school is the only option.

So why is it that so few schools and districts fail to translate this acknowledgment into a vigorous, systematic, and unapologetic effort to recruit people to our profession?

«I just don't know what the appetite will be for increasing the flow of failing schools into the [state - run] district,» Mr. Pianta said.

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.

I think we should speed up the failing school timeline and I think incorporated into that should be a discussion about district accountability...

The chamber's top education budget writer, Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr., said the legislation could ultimately create a scenario where a district is able to turn a failing school into a charter but maintain control over it rather than turning it over a private operator.

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.

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

The defendants also argue that the plaintiffs failed to prove they are members of a «suspect class,» which basically means plaintiffs didn't prove that school districts harmed a specific group — in this case, minority kids from low - income families — by moving ineffective teachers into schools populated by members of the group.

Palm Lane parents, disheartened by the school's abysmal academic record [1] and the governing district's resistance to change, sought relief by attempting to exercise the Parent Trigger Law, an option that enables them to petition the school district to transform the failing institution into a newly created public charter school.

If made into law, the bill would return schools that were placed in the Recovery School District after Hurricane Katrina to the Orleans Parish School Board, provided the schools are no longer failing.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

State superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz, a former superintendent of Whitnall and Beloit school districts, said he is «adamantly opposed» to immediately converting «failing schools» into charter or private voucher schools or closing them.

«During the first decade of the 21st century, Chancellor Joel Klein and Mayor Michael Bloomberg oversaw a radical transformation of the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) into a portfolio management district in which the primary responsibility of the NYCDOE was not to develop the capacity of school leaders or teachers, but instead to create a marketplace through which strong schools could be created and failing schools could be closed.»

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What looks good on paper often fails when the mix of variables from school to school, group to group, district to district comes into play.

When states fail to account for these realities, they can drive school districts into bankruptcy.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

In 1999 charter schools were given the OK to open in the St. Louis and Kansas City Public School Districts; since then Missouri tax payers have sunk more than $ 620 million into twenty - one charter schools that failed.

Gov. Nathan Deal is proposing a new state school district that would take over failing schools and, possibly, convert them into charter schools.

Over the years, it drew criticism for its rush to invite charter school operators into the district, for its closing of dozens of schools, and for repeatedly failing to sign a contract with Philadelphia teachers.

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