Sentences with phrase «failing schools debate»

As the Buffalo Public School District works to improve its failing schools debate is growing over the strength of charter schools.

Not exact matches

Holland's eager yet awkward Parker delivers big laughs as he navigates the many offerings in his high - tech suit from Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), tries (and fails) to make a meaningful connection with Stark's assistant Happy (Jon Favreau) by calling and texting at all hours, and debates a high school crush with his virtual assistant, Karen.

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

We look forward to meeting Michael Grimm in our scheduled future debates, where Domenic will proudly match his record of fighting for middle class families to improve our schools and protect our city against Michael Grimm's embarrassing and failed leadership,» Weinstein wrote.

Hawkins added during the debate that the state public schools fail because they are the most segregated state in the U.S.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

The debate comes on the same day as a former advisor to Tony Blair and Charles Clarke said that the way to lift failing schools in Britain is to partner them with schools that are reaching high standards.

After losing most of its steam, the film regains some clever cred in the climactic testing clinch (here, Ferrell earns his paycheck by schooling James Carville in a debate competition and utterly failing — while dressed in a tiger suit — to clear a ring of fire).

The fierce debate about student privacy often risks failing to ensure that all students benefit from the enormous breakthroughs that technology makes possible in 21st century schools.

In an engaging forum, MacInnes explained that for 15 years the failing schools of the Abbott Districts were the most debated educational issue in the state.

Read «Gender Gap,» in which Richard Whitmire, author of Why Boys Fail, and Susan McGee Bailey, principal author of the 1992 report How Schools Shortchange Girls debate whether schools are now shortchanginSchools Shortchange Girls debate whether schools are now shortchanginschools are now shortchanging boys.

One debate never fails to come up in our workshop discussions: should lighting and equipment within schools be automatically controlled through movement and light sensors, or should the users of these building be responsible for turning things off when they leave a room?

Others offer interdistrict choice, such as the controversial busing plan currently under debate in St. Louis, which allows students to attend schools in neighboring districts to alleviate segregation concerns or to offer students an escape hatch from failing schools.

But it is clear that the typical arguments that drive charter - related controversies and public debate fail to capture the ways in which district and charter schools affect one another.

Charter schools were vindicated by these new findings, but the debate about both reports failed to include the most important issue facing charter schools: an inability to effectively serve students with special needs due to excessive delays and insufficient staffing in the NYC Department of Education's Committees for Special Education.

Twelve years, two failed appeals to Washington voters and one vicious national debate separate the opening of the first charter school in Minnesota and the arrival of charter - school legislation in Washington state.

The teachers» push on testing comes as Congress is debating how to revise the 2001 No Child Left Behind law, which requires that schools demonstrate annual progress on test scores and prescribed measures for schools deemed failing, from mandatory tutoring to closing.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

Tennesseans are debating the efficacy of a K - 12 school voucher bill that would allow 5,000 children attending failing schools (most of which are located in and around Nashville and Memphis) to choose a private school.

Across the nation, the debate rages on among policymakers, teachers and education advocates: Do parent - trigger - type laws have the potential to turn around underperforming schools when bureaucrats fail to act?

The debate about which schools are subject to intervention, or to receive extra support, has always been in terms of how many are failing, or coasting — defined in terms of not hitting a certain standard.

But so much of this debate is about the rhetoric rather than the reality - and head teachers have been bristling at the language of threats to send in teams of new leaders to «failing and coasting schools».

Sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but the SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to JulSchools) March on Washington — an attempt to con the public by diverting the debate away from real education reform issues like failing schools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to Julschools, irresponsible spending, retaining bad teachers, etc. — will be setting up their Big Top in Washington D.C. from July 28th to July 31st.

In similar ways, Duncan has stepped into legislative debates in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Massachusetts to advance or defend charter schools, though he points out that he wants to shut failing charter schools as much as he wants to open new ones.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

Timpson was speaking during a debate on the government's children and social work bill, which campaigners criticised for failing to include laws compelling the teaching of sex and relationships education in all schools.

But there is a continuing debate over which of the two entities should provide broad oversight to the autonomous charters — the state - run Recovery School District or the Orleans Parish School Board, which had to surrender oversight of the failing schools.

When 93 teachers and staffers were fired from Rhode Island's Central Falls High School in 2010, it fueled a nationwide debate over how failing schools might be resurrected.

In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include «takeover districts» in which schools that are deemed «chronically failing» are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure that is far less transpar - ent and accountable to the public.

The documentary is not a discussion or debate over how to meet the challenge of a failing public school system.

«Everyone knew this day was coming, and now it is upon us, and we need to have an open, honest debate about the consequences of a law that will label a majority of our schools as failing,» Justin Hamilton, press secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, said in an email.

Currently, education - policy debates in the United States are divided between two warring camps: On one side are «school reformers,» who argue that efforts to improve equity for low - income youngsters must focus on fixing failing schools.

As a national debate continues to simmer over the best methods for protecting students from gun violence, a state senator from Southern California points out that a large number of school districts are failing to develop or update school safety plans — as required by law.