Sentences with phrase «from failing»

«Gov. Dannel P. Malloy moved quickly Thursday to exploit what Democrats say is an ill - considered and impractical proposal by Republican Tom Foley to allow urban parents to pick the local public school of their choice and strip money from failing schools as their children go elsewhere.

Can these two women save thousands of LA students from failing schools?

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

More than half the states in the nation now have some kind of publicly funded program to pay for students» private - school tuition, programs that proponents hail as offering an escape from failing public schools, and that critics say are starving public schools of needed resources.

RSCs should continue to sharpen and make more transparent sponsor accountability processes, acting to remove academies from failing chains and closing those chains with poor records

In order to prevent any school from failing its pupils, we need to ensure that governance is strong.

An MP who is calling for a controversial academy trust to withdraw from a failing school has been physically escorted off the school's premises during a visit to check on flood damage.

Also did not violate the prohibition against appropriating money to non-state charitable or educational institutions because the refundable tax credits... are made to the parents of students transferring from a failing school and are not paid to a non-state charitable or educational institution.»

Either way, its ruling will profoundly affect not only the lives of thousands Louisiana families, but also millions of other American children who could be rescued from failing schools if powerful school reforms continue to gain momentum across the land.

It includes children from failing schools who are entitled to transfer to 223 (or any other middle school in good standing) under the No Child Left Behind statute as well as children whose families recently moved to the city or the neighborhood, often under duress.

A year after the release of If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great, it is time to reflect on the progress the district has made toward fulfilling the coalition's recommendations.

Private tutoring is the «hidden secret» allowing better - off families to stop their less able children from failing at school, research suggests.

«An analysis by an organization analyzing itself is suspect,» complained A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, which has long despised charters because they take students - and the money that follows them - away from the failing schools that union members staff.

Student funds from failing public schools would follow students to the charter public schools that replace them, just as student funds follow students when they move to another public school in the district.

«We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping...

«Under a system created during Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration, eighth graders can apply anywhere in the city, in theory unshackling themselves from failing, segregated neighborhood schools.

Mr. Cuccinelli also wants parents to be able to remove their children from failing schools, and last year supported legislation to provide tax - credit scholarships to private schools for low - income students.

More and more students using school vouchers are not from failing schools.

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

from failing schools or going out on lifetime medical leaves.

If families are so capable at pulling a trigger for their failing schools, why weren't they capable enough to keep it from failing?

A + Updates A year after the release of If Not Now: Transforming Aurora Public Schools from Failing to Great, A + reviewed APS» progress on the report's recommendations.

Most studies examining effects of private schooling suffer from failing to establish whether private schooling actually causes the outcomes.

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

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.

In Missouri, where the state Supreme Court this spring upheld a law allowing students from failing school districts to transfer to better school districts, many parents and administrators in the receiving districts are not so happy.

His voucher proposal diverts Title I funds from the failing school and gives it to parents ($ 1,500 per student).

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.

Vouchers are necessary, it is asserted, to provide parents with the means of escape from failing public schools and, in so doing, stimulate government - run schools to improve.

Fewer than one percent of voucher students now come from failing public schools, and more than half never attended public school at all.

It's a theme he first started promoting at the Republican National Convention: «We will rescue kids from failing schools by helping their parents send them to a safe school of their choice,» he said in his acceptance speech.

Atlanta District Rolls Out New Grade - Changing Rules District Dossier: Superintendent Meria Carstarphen launched an investigation into grade changing after an internal investigation found that one high school principal changed more than 100 student grades from failing to passing.

It could be as easy as not being tardy to class or as ambitious as going from a failing grade to achieving a 4.0.

Ethnic groups that did not modify their own behaviour were responsible for any racism that resulted from failing to comply.

Some have begun to ask, «What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools into the failing districts?»

What are some suggestions to prevent kids who are not from failing schools, but who want to change schools, from being pushed to the bottom of the list?

Regulations issued in November mandate that schools file plans explaining how they will implement key aspects of the law, make supplemental services available in the same year tests are administered, find a way to accommodate students transferring from failing schools, and more.

Bush has said that he supports using vouchers to allow students from failing schools to attend private schools.

David L. Brennan wants to rescue America's children from failing schools.

The penalties for breaking these policies range from failing the assignment to expulsion, all of which are detrimental to academic success.

To address that, Bettez asks those students to reflect during their conference on why a piece of work is missing, what prevented that work from being completed, and what plans they have to prevent them from failing to complete other assignments.

The record is clear that most districts could make it much easier, and more attractive, for parents to move their children from failing 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.

And I'm almost certain that the record 155 Mexicans who died attempting to cross the border this summer weren't thinking of what they had to lose from failing — only what they had to gain from succeeding.

And they come from failing schools.»

Programs that arise from failing schools are of unpredictable dimensions and are more tied to the values of «choice» and «privatization.»

We went from a failing school because of state scores to [exceeding] AYP, and now we are a VIP school, moving toward excellence, Wismer told Education World.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

Another way to think about these gains is to understand that, for every year they spend in a charter school, students make up 12 percent of the distance from failing to proficient in math.

In a tearful hurry, aspiring fashion designer Michelle packs some light bags and peels off in her car, fleeing from a failing relationship.