Sentences with phrase «federal school improvement grant»

This article evaluates the tensions with democratic education inherent in the federal School Improvement Grant program's market - based school reforms.

The schools — located in New Orleans; Denver; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Des Moines, Iowa; Portland, Oregon; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Lame Deer, Montana — all receive federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding.

The options allowed in the California law are the same as those provided in the federal School Improvement Grant program.

In the midst of such privation, School 4 is in its second year of getting an extra $ 2 million in federal School Improvement Grant money on top of a roughly $ 4 million budget.

The Maine Department of Education will again apply for federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding that the Department would distribute to help the state's most struggling schools.

The federal School Improvement Grant program has been retired, and under the new Every Student Succeeds Act, districts will have more flexibility along with a percentage of federal funds to roll out locally honed strategies for turnaround.

The administration has also allocated federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) money for «persistently low - performing» schools adopting the Transformation model, which requires an overhaul of current teacher evaluation practices.

With help from a federal School Improvement Grant, programs were put in place at North — like the one - to - one laptop initiative to give each student access to technology.

While the paper - chase mindset was famously in evidence with the No Child Left Behind Act and the Obama administration's ineffectual $ 8 billion federal School Improvement Grant program, perhaps nowhere has it been clearer than it is with overdue efforts to more effectively evaluate teachers.

«Education is such a big thing for me, and I want to see these students be successful,» said Carol May, a career college specialist whose position was created through a federal School Improvement Grant.

The 21st Century Charter School of Gary is the recipient of a federal school improvement grant, along with the Dr. Bernard C. Watson Academy for Boys, a Gary Community School Corp. elementary.

Mr. Minnich said states also are trying to use lessons learned from initiatives like the $ 4.6 billion federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, program, which provided grants to states and districts for major interventions in struggling schools.

During his five - day, seven - city tour, Van Roekel is visiting a number «priority schools» and stopped by Romulus Middle School which had received a $ 5.3 million grant as part of the federal School Improvement Grant program.

The program will combine the assets and expertise of both agencies with the on - the - ground presence of AmeriCorps members in schools that are implementing a turnaround effort through the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

Glendale won a three - year federal School Improvement Grant with a faculty - approved plan that boosts the rigor of curriculum, extends class time, fosters parental engagement and community partnerships, and increases teacher development — all with staff input and collaboration between the faculty, administration and district.

As the clock ticks down for priority schools that have received a federal School Improvement Grant, the emerging question has been sustainability, with family - community partnerships surfacing as the key component needed to continue the reform work in priority schools.

In Dayton, Ohio, three schools — Dunbar High School, Belmont High School and Meadowdale High School — received federal School Improvement Grant funds.

With help from a federal School Improvement Grant, programs were put in place like the one - to - one laptop initiative to give each student access to technology.

This is SIGnificant: Fix SIG, the federal School Improvement Grant program, to ensure all funds for low - performing schools go for Sustainable Community Schools.

CEC specializes in helping low - performing schools and their districts to implement comprehensive improvements, such as those required by the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, with extensive on - site support.

DECEMBER: The New York City district and union lose out on $ 60 million in federal School Improvement Grant funding after failing to reach agreements on teacher - evaluation details.

PCAPS Coordinator Ron Whitehorne outlined the strategy for getting 10 % of Philadelphia Schools to be Sustainable Community Schools in four years, focusing on the demand that federal School Improvement Grant money be used exclusively for that purpose.

Glenda Ritz, left, answers questions about federal School Improvement Grant money at the June State Board of Education meeting.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

But then the high school was awarded a federal School Improvement Grant and became a target site of the Priority Schools Campaign.

Together, they made a strong start during the first year of the school's federal School Improvement Grant.

On top of that they have an additional set of requirements from the federal School Improvement Grant program.

The first was a quantitative analysis of student academic outcomes, comparing results for schools that received federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to similar schools in the same districts that did not.

The narrow and disruptive range of options offered in the Parent Empowerment Act — the same options offered in the federal School Improvement Grant program — have shown no overall success in improving schools nationwide.

In late 2014, the state launched a first - of - its - kind desegregation plan — the Socioeconomic Integration Pilot program — using federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, funds.

The failure of the federal School Improvement Grant program and countless other «turnaround» initiatives is convincing policymakers that nondistrict alternatives are essential.

Assistance from City Year Corps, which provides schools with tutors, mentors and role models, is funded through the federal School Improvement Grant program.

In fall 2011, Marshall High welcomed students to an upgraded facility and a brand - new staff, thanks to a federal School Improvement Grant.

The latest study of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program appears to confirm Smarick's view, which he declared with chest - beating glee in a post on the EdNext blog.

Then there was the massive federal School Improvement Grant program, Arne Duncan and President Obama's $ 7 billion effort to tell us what to do with failing schools.

The city announced in June, prior to the appellate ruling, that it was going to «transform» 11 of the district's schools and dramatically overhaul or close 23 others under a $ 300 million federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about continuing efforts by New York City Chancellor Joel Klein to close chronically failing schools — despite a ruling by a state court that the closings could not proceed — using a federal School Improvement Grant.

Two years in, the federal School Improvement Grant program shows momentum, but sustaining gains may be a challenge.

It's how you end up with exciting victories like the federal School Improvement Grant program, the Common Core, or teacher evaluation reform, that look a lot less victorious in hindsight.

«The mayor seems to be lost in his own fantasy world of education, the one where reality doesn't apply,» declared UFT President Michael Mulgrew in response to the mayor's State of the City speech on Jan. 12, in which, among other proposals, he threatened to fire half the staffs in 33 schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant support.

Under the terms of federal School Improvement Grants that the DOE was awarded to help these schools succeed, the school district and the union must jointly develop a teacher evaluation system in low - achieving schools that receive the funds.

The negotiations, which both sides agreed to in writing, were aimed at creating a system for fairly evaluating teachers, using both student performance and observation, in the 33 schools receiving federal school improvement grants.

Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and UFT President Michael Mulgrew on July 15 announced an important agreement that will help secure up to $ 65 million over the next two years in federal School Improvement Grants, a U.S. Department of Education program that provides funding to help transform our nation's struggling schools.

The agreement will qualify the city to receive up to $ 65 million in federal School Improvement Grants over the next two years.

Is it any surprise that middle schools and high schools are significantly more likely to be subject to interventions via the federal School Improvement Grants program?

Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $ 3 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation's lowest - performing schools.

Nationally, 27 percent of the schools that have received federal school improvement grants have lost 20 percent or more of their students in recent years, according to a Catalyst Chicago analysis of federal data.

As the federal School Improvement Grants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the program.

Prior to NCTR, Sarah worked at the Colorado Department of Education as a Title I program specialist and managed federal school improvement grants.

This year, most of those schools in every state received substantial federal School Improvement Grants, often a million dollars over three years, with the expectation that they will be «turned around» or made into much better schools.