Sentences with phrase «failing school systems»

They question the purpose of charter schools, contending that charters should be confined to failing school systems.

«To me, being a warrior for social justice means doing whatever it takes to change the odds for kids who are stuck in failing school systems,» she says.

Charters are a great alternative for parents to the failing school system in NYC.

We have watched as politics that have decimated the black family, perpetuated poverty and created failing schools systems that we no longer want to send our children to.

Tony Kaye's film about America's failing school system isn't subtle, but it has a fierce emotional punch and he draws knockout performances from his eclectic cast.

In this atmosphere, it mattered less that the billionaire mayor had made good on his promise to fix a failing school system than that he was a billionaire.

In most cities with a failing school system the mayor faces a great dilemma: Do nothing, which is often all a mayor is legally empowered to do, or do everything, meaning mayoral takeover.

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.

This organization has been one of the most effective groups in the country at expanding these options and giving children trapped in a failing school system a new chance at success in life.

These families deserve a mayor who will put their children first, and do the hard work to turn around our failing school system.

In 2009, then chancellor of DC public schools, Michelle Rhee, implemented the «impact» system in a drastic move to save a failing school system.

Boulos concludes that the contract's job protections — including seniority, job definitions, tenure, and others — «collectively contribute to poor student achievement and a failing school system.

Based on her participation in an intensive four - year school reform project in the Newark, New Jersey public schools, the author vividly captures the anguish and anger of students and teachers caught in the tangle of a failing school system.

Not exact matches

The system that failed to protect the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School from mass shooter Nikolas Cruz can not afford to make the same mistake with his brother, a Broward prosecutor argued Tuesday.

And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

The security system at the school failed Schools need to spend less on sports and each school needs a full - time ARMED guard on location.

Do you have a source to cite for «millions of Christians fleeing the failing public school system» because of acceptance of gays being taught?

Or did you just fail English as a fifth language in the Pakastani Public School and Gulag System back in the 90's?

Unfortunate that the school system failed you so miserably.

Both your school system and your parents have failed you.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

hundreds of thousands of school children are being failed by our current system every day.

They may have recently broken up with a girlfriend or boyfriend; failed an exam or had a decline in school performance; shown signs of an eating disorder; or have become involved somehow with the justice system.

What we're seeing in Birmingham is part of the systematic failings in the current school system.

But no - one could point directly to the good that Google was failing to do by avoiding tax — no - one could say «look, Starbucks gave money that helped build ten schools and five hospitals, and you contributed nothing», partly because Starbucks didn't give any more money (and nor did many other corporations), and partly because connecting tax contributions directly to outcomes just isn't possible with our tax system.

But an alternative barometer of KC liberalism would by the city's failed state school system, which recently lost its state accreditation.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester City School District held a press conference detailing their system's issues that they say failed Trevyan and his family.

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

BTW; the city school system is not failing.

If the NYC school system is «failing» (it isn't) the for profit schools taking money, space and the most motivated parents and pupils will just make it worse.

They offer a good alternative to the failing NYC school system.

«The key education reforms are dealing with the epidemic of failing schools, improvement to the teacher evaluation system, tenure reform, teacher performance bonuses and scholarships to attract new teachers.

This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

That strategy pins the blame for failing schools solely on the de Blasio administration, the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers, who are caught in a bind of defending a public school system that objectively contains many low - performing schools, most of which have been struggling for decades.

Critics have carped that the Bloomberg - led system fails to give parents sufficient voice — whatever that means — but the current arrangement is a night - and - day improvement over the old Board of Education, which was not only less accountable to the public, but failed at its most basic mission: improving our schools and teaching our kids.

AUSTIN — Attorneys for hundreds of school districts urged a state judge Tuesday to again overturn Texas» school finance system, arguing that the Legislature failed last year to fix problems that have plagued the system.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

New Yorkers for Students» Educational Rights, an education advocacy group, is suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Board of Regents and state Education Commissioner John King, claiming the state has systematically shortgaged the public school system by failing failing to comply with an agreement that followed the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity Ruling of 2006.

A new report says the NYC Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

Failing schools in the inner city are a major problem and frankly, I'd quite like someone who had direct experience of the issues in the system developing policy.

He has argued that the current system is not accurate since the vast majority of teachers have been rated «effective» or «highly effective,» while most elementary and middle schools students have failed state - administered math and English exams.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

Even Mayor de Blasio's Republican opponent Paul Massey says Albany should extend mayoral control of city schools — though he charged Hizzoner has «utterly failed» at leading the public school system.

«Our city school system in Syracuse is failing,» she said.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

«These schools have been failing for 50 years,» said Shamona Kirkland, referring to a system that she said had failed three generations of her family.