Sentences with phrase «failing school districts across»

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is angry, claiming that 27 failing school districts across the state continue to under - perform despite receiving over $ 100 billion in funding since 1985.

Not exact matches

Cafeteria managers across the state had complained for a year about food that reeked of ammonia, but state and federal regulators failed to alert school districts.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

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.

Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.

The dramatic variation in student performance across states raises the concern that many children will suffer in coming years as states and districts assume greater responsibility for monitoring and intervening in failing schools.

While hardware and software vary across classrooms, schools, and districts, one thing can be guaranteed across the board: technology, no matter what kind it is, will fail.

The school districts suing the state — Kansas City, Kan., Wichita, Hutchinson and Dodge City — allege that Kansas has failed to meet its constitutional duty to adequately fund schools across the state.

In contrast, a middle school in a small, high - poverty district in one of our southern states also failed to meet AYP targets (the district had a history of adequate, albeit not high performance, across its schools on state proficiency tests).

While school accountability systems across the country identify failing schools, districts and states still wrestle with how to fix them.

While hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on technology solutions across the nation's schools, sadly, too many districts have failed to see those investments deliver on the desired outcomes.

But despite their failure, the Governor and the state department of education is taking its failed model to school districts across the state and have recently passed a ill fated voucher program that will take put more state funds in the private sector and fail more children.

Across the District's high schools, 18 percent of seniors accrued more than 10 absences in a single course during the second quarter, earning them failing grades.

«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.»

But throughout these turbulent changes across the district, Lubelfeld said what he has valued the most is the establishment of an organizational culture that can sustain what is working and repair what is failing in the school system.

It found that voucher programs harmed students with disabilities by denying them their rights under IDEA, by failing to provide equitable services, and by providing IDEA services inconsistently across school districts.

District and state interventions mandated uniformly across all low - performing schools often miss the mark because they fail to account for contextual factors that vary from school to school.

Finally, the state has created an innovative alternative governance structure to turn around failing schools through the Recovery School District, which serves as a model for governance intervention across the nation.»

But with teachers unions leading the charge, many school districts across the state still fail to allocate space equitably to charters.

We believe that we can engage our community, school board and new Superintendent to understand and acknowledge the district's failed financial practices and to adopt nationally recognized best practices and standards for financial operation that will ultimately help the district prioritize its resources, narrows its focus and improve outcomes for students across the city.

At some point, you have to ask yourself: if this has been proven across the nation as a model that brings more success whereas school district privatization has failed repeatedly, what is the motivation to implement the failing model??

Furthermore, I discuss one past solution, busing across district lines, that I argue has failed to rectify segregation in schools.

States and districts across the country have begun expanding the list of mandated reporters — those who can be penalized under the law for knowingly failing to report the abuse or neglect of a child — to include teachers and other employees of school campuses.

«UIC can continue to have a strong hand in bringing these crucial, reliable social and emotional learning programs and methods to schools and districts across the U.S., enriching the educational experiences of children at a time when so many American schools are failing kids.