Sentences with phrase «failing schools crisis»

«Facing increased pressure from parents and reform advocates to improve struggling schools, Chancellor Farina responded with a disappointing, over-hyped, political stunt that won't address the failing schools crisis,» Sedlis said.

Facing increased pressure from parents and reform advocates to improve struggling schools, Chancellor Farina responded with a disappointing, over-hyped, political stunt that won't address the failing schools crisis.

The roughly 9,000 students and many of their parents will participate in a rally organized by pro-charter group Families for Excellent Schools, which will push for an «end to New York's failing schools crisis.»

The students, many of them from Eva Moskowitz's NYC - based Success Academy Network, got a day off school to take part in the huge rally on the steps of the Capitol that called for an end to the «failing schools crisis» and featured the hip - hop singer and WNBA star Lisa Leslie.

Another release followed a few weeks later, saying «the city's failing schools crisis has an immediate, heartbreaking impact on children.»

The real crime is the Mayor's neglect of our failing schools crisis,» Joe Herrera, a parent organizer with the group, said.

Thousands of city charter school kids got a day off school to take part in a huge rally on the steps of the Capitol that called for an end to the «failing schools crisis.»

The rally was ostensibly held to call for an end to what organizers are calling New York's «failing schools crisis.»

«It's pretty shocking that the Mayor did not include a single real solution to New York City's failing schools crisis in his budget presentation.

Bureaucratic tweaks don't fix a failing schools crisis.»

Thousands of parents, teachers, children and supporters of New York City charter schools gathered at Foley Square on Oct. 2nd to call on city and state leaders to address what they call a «failing school crisis.»

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Recently, F.E.S. has been advocating for a state takeover of failing schools as a key part of the solution to the failing schools «crisis.»

The next government may have a teachers» strike on its hands within months if it fails to address what unions have called a schools funding crisis.

She appeared on NY1's Inside City Hall on Thursday night and spoke, as she often does, about what she and her allies call New York's «failing school» crisis.

There were familiar proclamations about failing schools: «This is a massive crisis!»

«I am ready to go head - to - head with Mayor de Blasio and hold him accountable for his lack of leadership and mismanagement of the subway crisis, traffic nightmares, rise in homelessness and failing schools,» Malliotakis said of the news that her opponent dropped out.

«We've got record homelessness, failing schools, a housing crisis and we're creating no jobs.»

Malliotakis» campaign has argued that she can manage the city better than de Blasio has — she regularly criticizes the mayor for failing schools, the homelessness crisis, crumbling subways, and other quality of life issues.

When the World Bank issued a report last fall that found that 60 percent of primary school children in developing countries were failing to achieve a basic proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics, it exposed a so - called «learning crisis» in global education, one in which children attend school for years but fail to learn.

The 2005 legislation that designated New Orleans a district in crisis and placed more of its failing schools under state control gave the RSD five years to achieve recovery.

Instead of applying only to «failing» schools, the new powers would now pertain to all schools in districts «in academic crisis» that had performance scores below the state average.

The gap is becoming a crisis in schools where leadership has supported or initiated purchasing initiatives (especially such high - profile technologies as tablets, laptops, Internet - connected handhelds and such high - volume technologies as handhelds and AlphaSmart) that create expectations within the school community, and then has failed to articulate or energize a vision for using those technologies.

Now, the Motor City is taking aim at a crisis of equal proportions — its failing schools — with an unprecedented gamble on school leadership.

The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop - outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future.

Yet those charged with preventing a similar fiasco — a state - appointed fiscal trustee, the county superintendent, the school board and district leadership — have failed to stave off crisis.

While the OSA is not the «magic pill» that will solve New Jersey's education crisis in areas of concentrated poverty, it allows students to escape failing schools and implicitly asserts that more money alone will not help those students currently attending the state's worst performing schools.

I learned that school officials are often blind to these issues; I'll add my name to the list of school leaders who failed to recognize the problem and act until the crisis boiled over.

She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher shortages, the widening attainment gap, the school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.

We have no idea that there is a real crisis, let alone that schools are failing!

For years, most in education circles have been acutely aware of a «boy crisis» in education — though around the world, girls are less likely to enter school, boys are significantly more likely to be held back, suspended, fail or drop out than their female counterparts and are more likely to be labeled as special needs — a truth that has remained for decades.

In a special session of the Louisiana Legislature less than two months after the storm, with much of the population still displaced, lawmakers significantly changed the threshold for «failing» and allowed for the takeover of a failing district — a clear response to a school system in crisis that couldn't even open its doors.

But he is facing criticism for failing to address the growing warnings from head teachers about a funding crisis in existing 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.

Before Deb discovered Achieve3000, she found herself in the middle of a budget crisis, and with a school that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP.

In the following weeks, FES CEO Jeremiah Kittredge repeatedly pointed to a «safety crisis» in the city's schools, and the group even filed a lawsuit against the DOE claiming the department has failed to prevent bullying and violence.

Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of a «hidden crisis» of «coasting schools» in well - off areas that fail to push pupils to their full potential.

- I'll repeat... Most homebuyers can qualify easily with a 25 year amortization, but choose to extend that to a 30 year amortization as a fail safe or preventative measure, just in case their incomes are affected in the future... job loss, family illness, child school fees, other financial crisis.