Sentences with phrase «failing urban schools»

Just about the last thing they want is choice programs that would open their schools to the children in failing urban schools.

The noble goal was to give poor children trapped in failing urban schools another option.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

Years of failed urban school - reform efforts and concentrated residential poverty exacerbate the passive orientations that poor families have toward schooling.

Prior to his appointment he'd written a punchy manifesto, «Wave of the Future,» which laid out in plain terms how «charter schools should replace failing urban schools.»

Reformers have big plans to transform failing urban schools, and their work hinges on finding a way to keep strong teachers in the classroom.

What would these centers accomplish that would dramatically improve failing urban schools and help relieve the teacher shortage?

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

Moreover, it is emphatically not the case that traditional districts are the right solution for all of our most pressing problems, such as persistently failing urban schools.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

The arrival of charter schools in 1996 offered parents another way out of a failing urban school system.

That gap, West believes, results from Republicans by and large being at ease with their own suburban schools, while African American parents in failing urban schools are frantic for alternatives.

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.