Sentences with phrase «failing schools options»

When the program first passed in 2011, supporters said funding private school tuition would give poor kids in failing schools options to get a better education.

In 2008, Former State Senator Gloria Romero authored and guided to passage the «parent trigger» law, which allows a majority of parents in a failing school the option to petition the local educational agency (LEA) to implement reform in the school.

Not exact matches

Despite their importance as alternative options for parents and students in failing districts, many parochial schools in New York State are experiencing financial hardship, and parents can face steep costs to enroll their children in such schools.

It comes amid concerns over low test scores for many of the state's students, and harsh rhetoric from Governor Cuomo, saying he wants a «death penalty» option for dealing with failing schools.

Too many children are stuck in failing schools without options,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Governor Cuomo understands this is unacceptable, and is acting to fix failing schools, improve teacher quality including bonuses for our best teachers, and give families better school options.

According to the governor, the doorman told him, «in my neighborhood the public schools are failing, and if I don't get my son into a charter school I have no options.»

Despite their importance as alternative options for parents and students in failing schools, many parochial schools in New York State are experiencing financial hardship, and parents can face steep costs to enroll their children in such schools.

He said that Girls Prep was one of the only schools in the Bronx that received an «A» on the Department of Education's report card, and said his daughter's only other option in the neighborhood would «pretty much be a failing school.»

Charters are an important option for parents in communities with failing schools and provide education laboratories.

A well - intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill better snacking habits in a sample of schools in Appalachian Virginia, according to a study by Virginia Tech researchers.

The current standards were introduced because voluntary school food guidelines introduced in 2001 requiring caterers to provide healthy options but not to limit access to less healthy food had failed to promote healthier eating in school.

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

Personally, I think we should also continue to give options to students who would otherwise be trapped in failing schools.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

It gives states four options for using School Improvement Grants, and I believe two will almost certainly fail to have any meaningful positive impact.

The high - school options now available in the city are so limited that thousands of middle - class and working - class parents find themselves left out in the cold when their children fail to make the cutoff for the exam schools.

Spellings is showing commendable backbone on choice, warning states that they can lose Title I megabucks if they fail to provide students with escape options from failing schools.

These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

Currently, parents may choose a better school when their child's school fails to make AYP, but as the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has called it, the choice option is «a right without a remedy.»

The restructuring options prescribed by law include strong measures, such as turning failing schools into charter schools or allowing the state to take them over.

In October 2001, even before the federal bill had passed, the district sent letters to parents of students in three high schools it expected to land on the failing list, notifying them that the transfer option might be available for the next fall.

Furious after realizing the horror that a program increasing options for children trapped in failing schools had passed, the AEA sued.

It pushed for options for students stuck in failing schools.

And although the chapter on Canada fails to make any mention of it, Canada has an extensive system of school choice, offering options that vary by language and religious denomination.

The majority have been designed to make private school options available to families that otherwise could not afford them, to students «trapped in failing schools,» or students with special needs.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

The proposition — originally formulated by Milton Friedman — was (and remains) that parents, particularly the poor and those with children stuck in those failing schools, deserve better options and that a vibrant marketplace would lead to educational improvement.

And as the number of schools failing to make adequate progress grows, the number of options remaining for families will only dwindle.

By implementing these changes together, they hoped to eliminate dropout factories, improve educational options available to students who had been historically assigned to failing schools by virtue of where they lived, and raise graduation rates.

To provide students with better options in the future, authorizers need to close virtual charter schools that are persistently failing.

First, it's unfair to trap poor kids in failing schools when better options are available.

Although it shouldn't have surprised me, one of the things I found most difficult to accept was the opposition to charter schools voiced by many legislators from minority communities, where the existing schools were failing and charter options were so desperately needed.

Roughly two - thirds of the adult population support replacing teachers and / or principals at persistently failing schools, and only one in ten opposes such options.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

Under NCLB, if a school has failed to meet the law's accountability provisions two years in a row, parents have the option of sending their child to a higher - performing public school within the same district.

When asked about these options, Americans express greater support for replacing teachers and principals than for converting failed district schools into charter schools.

Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane

* Fordham Industries makes no claims as to political feasibility, impact on educational freedom, immediate assistance to children in failing schools, parental rights, religious educational options, pedagogical diversity, educational innovation, public value conflicts, size of the tax burden, fairness to private school families, student achievement, or civic values.

Burke argued that many students are being failed by traditional public schools, and they deserve new options for schooling.

If a Title I school fails to meet AYP standards for a third year, students from low - income families in the school must be offered the opportunity to receive instruction from a supplemental educational services provider of their choice, in addition to continuing to be offered public school choice options.

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

Arguing that current federal reform models are failing struggling rural schools, a new report makes the case for a new «community schools» turnaround option.

As states develop their initial ESSA plans, most informed observers agree that only a handful will do much more than check the box on federal requirements (e.g., state's duty to act when localities consistently ignore failing schools or groups of children who have no good options).

But such claims are difficult to square with the legislators» designation of schools as not making «AdequateYearly Progress,» much less with the fact that the law gives families the option to attend another school if their school twice fails to make AYP.

He hopes that parents of children in failing schools, armed with information about how their schools and children are doing, will force schools to offer them the options that are laid out in the federal law.

Thus, the Voucher Programs that exist essentially offer parents the option to remove their children from failing public schools or public schools that can not meet the needs of the student, and instead, enroll them in private schools.

And they should facilitate a healthy public school choice and parent information system to give parents options when government agencies fail to improve or close ineffective schools.

The Harrisburg Patriot - News editorial board supports the governor's reform plan, because although many of PA's schoolchildren receive a good education, those trapped in failing schools deserve options.