Sentences with phrase «failing schools fired»

In Rhode Island, a school board seeking to follow administration policies on failing schools fired all 87 teachers at its high school, provoking protests.

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The school district failed to give Anderson formal notice of inefficiency or 90 days to correct his failings before firing him.

The police officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday, under investigation for failing to enter the building as a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people.

Buffalo School Board member Carl Paladino's resolution to fire interim Superintendent Donald A. Ogilvie on Wednesday is not only likely to fail, but it also appears that no members of Paladino's own majority on the board will support it.

The state education department recently alleged that Ramapo's fire inspector, Adam Peltz, failed to report serious safety violations at multiple private schools.

Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

The eight - person panel that will evaluate whether Black is qualified to receive a waived and serve as the next NYC schools chancellor is meeting today, just as the state is coming under fire for failing to vet whether members had ties to Bloomberg.

Speaking of fire, a fire standpipe at a Mott Haven school complex recently failed a safety test.

The chancellor also blasted Mr. Cuomo's call for the firing of any teacher whose students fail to meet test standards after two years as an intrusion on the internal workings of schools.

Bloomberg heaped praise on UFT President Mike Mulgrew, whose union is under fire from charter school advocates who believe it blocked efforts to raise the cap in Albany in advance of the state's «Race to the Top» application (which failed).

The DOE's school closure policy has come under intense fire from education advocates and elected officials who believe the city should be investing more to turn failing schools around instead of shutting them down.

Gov. Cuomo has fired back at critics by pointing out that there are 91 failing schools in the city.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial pick has drawn serious fire from critics who have blasted him for failing to pick someone with experience running schools.

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).

But the film failed to catch fire with audiences of the period, although it is now routinely recognised as a masterpiece, and, along with Jean Renoir's Toni (1935), as a forerunner of the neo-realist school of filmmaking.

If they fail to measure up, district officials have options ranging from firing staff members to shutting down schools.

In this telling, valor is awarded to those willing to make «hard» decisions: these people support merit pay, firing bad teachers, holding schools accountable, and closing failing schools.

And, because the Archdiocese retains governance control of our schools, they can fire us if we fail to live up to the expectations we've set.

Much of the blame has been placed on education schools, which have come under fire for failing to produce enough high - performing teachers.

«I will be more than happy if the results of these tests light some fires under some people and help turn around failing schools,» Riley adds.

The real political test will come when students begin to fail the graduation exam, or when schools face dramatic interventions like faculty firings or reconstitutions.

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Inadequate passive fire protection was among the failings identified in the Edinburgh Schools inquiry, which saw 17 schools close last year due to construction Schools inquiry, which saw 17 schools close last year due to construction schools close last year due to construction defects

If the state instead threatened to fire or reassign the principals and teachers at failing schools, the results would likely be the same.

If the legislature fails to meet that deadline, education groups say, all schools in the state technically would be required to fire by April 15...

After our last Harvard Business Review article looking at the one type of leader who can turn around a failing school, we received emails from several Head Teachers saying,» I'm making the long - term changes you suggest, but I'm about to be fired!

So, we went back to our study of the beliefs, actions and impacts of 411 Head Teachers after taking over a failing school and, found that 90 % of the best long - term Heads, who we call Architects, were almost fired at the end of their second year.

«Nobody has a sure - fire plan for saving failing schools, especially high schools, and especially high schools like Dunbar.»

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.

Eventually, if the school kept failing, it was at risk of having its staff fired or having the school closed, handed over to state control or private management, or turned into a charter school or «any other major restructuring.»

While reformers failed to overhaul New York City's laws for hiring and firing teachers, they have succeeded in cultivating a robust system of charters to challenge the preeminence and performance of traditional public schools, and offer a model of what non-union schools might look like.

Firing teachers is a poor strategy for turning around supposedly failing schools, as we are seeing at Fremont High School in Los Angeles.

He talked tough about closing failing schools and firing bad teachers.

Earlier this month, he signed legislation allowing local school governing boards to close failing schools, convert them to charter schools, or fire a failing school's principal and half the staff.

President Barack Obama has called the firings an example of the need to hold failing schools accountable, and Gist on Wednesday said failing schools will continue to need drastic action.

Given the current federal policies I guess when the child you refer to fails a 4th grade reading test, the school system will be justified in firing all her teachers from kindergarten to the 4th grade.

The aim was to shine a light on schools that persistently failed to serve their neediest children, but the law has come under fire for being unrealistic and overly punitive, and for causing schools to narrow their lessons in order to prepare for math and reading tests.

stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

It's easy - use The Tests to label schools as failures... Close the failing schools... Fire the administrators and teachers... Hire TFA monkeys and call them teachers... And open charter schools funded by tax dollars.

During a 4 - year span, all schools who fail to meet AYP, including those with an A + on the FCAT, will face sanctions ranging from economic to a complete «reconstitution» or breakdown the school that involves firing principals, and staff and relocating students around the county.

Schools minister Nick Gibb is under fire for «failing to act» nearly two years after promising to stop the «postcode lottery» of unfair admissions for summer - born children.

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.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Brockton never fired large numbers of teachers, in contrast with current federal policy, which encourages failing schools to consider replacing at least half of all teachers to reinvigorate instruction.

The bottom line is that despite the billions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, firing of all those old bad teachers, no teacher union and no local elected school board the New Orleans reforms failed miserably.

Under Malloy's proposed «Commissioner's Network» system, the commissioner of education will take over 25 failing schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining, turn the schools over to a third party and that entity will then be legally exempt from the state's laws requiring competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of outside consultants.

High - stakes tests are being used around the country to label children and schools as failing, to prevent kids from graduating, to fire teachers, and to close schools.

The idea has gained so much traction that some members of Congress want the Obama administration to put «wrap - around» services in all failing schools before taking such drastic measures as firing principals and teachers.

Worse, the attitude that if a child fails a test she should take comfort that it is only a «brief failure» is completely out of touch with the severely punitive nature of high - stakes testing these days, in which a low test score can mean a student does not graduate, teachers are fired, and whole schools are shut down.

The budget has Cuomo - backed measures to toughen teacher evaluations, make it easier to fire bad teachers and put chronically failing schools into receivership.