Sentences with phrase «from failing school districts»

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — When the Missouri Supreme Court upheld a law in June allowing students from failing school districts to transfer to good ones, Harriett Gladney saw a path to a better education for her 9 - year - old daughter.

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.

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?»

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Several parents accused the district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people dead.

In 2003, a proposal to exempt small city school districts from constitutional debt limits failed, despite support from the influential teachers union.

Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in upstate.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in Upstate New York.

Instead, he wants to adopt a model from Massachusetts that yanks the control of failing schools from the local district.

«Courts have begun to hold school districts that fail to protect students from discrimination... liable for violating constitutional rights,» Carter said.

«The mayor speaks to collaborations with the Mt. Vernon City School District, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith telSchool District, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tDistrict, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith telschool district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tdistrict employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tells BW.

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

«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.»

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.

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

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

The school districts have also failed to require detailed documentation of the need for a bilingual education classroom, as the initiative requires, and they have changed the requirement of a year in a sheltered English - immersion classroom from a maximum to a minimum.

Two well - known commercial reading programs, which have been adopted by some of the nation's largest school districts and have met the strict requirements for research - based programs under the federal Reading First initiative, failed to earn ratings from the What Works Clearinghouse because they do not have any studies that satisfy the agency's rigorous evidence standards.

Instead, they faced the same tough environmental conditions plaguing failing schools and districts: tight budgets, deep - seated status quo routines, and tough opposition from organized employees.

Proponents of such top - down management argue that many schools would simply fail if they were left to sink or swim on their own, with no assistance from the district.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

After her school principal and district leaders failed to dissuade her from staging the protest, the school - board president and vice president, Silverthorn and Reynolds, met with Davis at her school.

From higher standards and 21st - century assessments, to educator effectiveness and the turnaround of failing schools, Race to the Top's program elements were anchored firmly in the good work of states and districts.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to review two cases in which a school district was held liable for failing to prevent an employee from sexually assaulting students.

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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.

And the agency has not rescinded money from any state, even when school districts failed to show progress.

The U.S. Department of Education has never withheld money from states failing to meet that requirement because states have issued sanctions against schools and districts with low participation rates.

Washington was among the 43 states and the District of Columbia that the Department of Education freed since 2011 from sanctions placed on schools and districts that fail to meet the law's timeline for improving student test scores.

In this court case, student plaintiffs from the San Francisco Unified School District sued the state, arguing that the state had failed to provide equal access to instructional materials, quality teachers, and safe and decent school facilSchool District sued the state, arguing that the state had failed to provide equal access to instructional materials, quality teachers, and safe and decent school facilschool facilities.

Now, the state establishes a separate entity charged with removing from district custody those schools that the district has failed to set right — not as a one - shot intervention but as a routine part of state oversight.

He is author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That's Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010); The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Jossey - Bass, 2011); and The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools with Gaston Caperton (The College Board, 2012).

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

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.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

Also, because of the anticipated approval of a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools and districts won't be judged as failing to meet adequate yearly progress this year, Johnson said.

Certainly school turnarounds aren't ever easy, even if the school is removed from the control of failing districts (whose cultures of mediocrity, failure, and dysfunction are the immediate reasons why schools become dropout factories in the first place).

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

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.

As states and districts look to turn around their own failing schools, creating an RSD - like vehicle would give them a powerful way to free a troubled school from the shackles of the status quo.

Further evidence comes from a school district in southern Minnesota that implemented full - day kindergarten in an effort to focus on providing foundational supports, building students» confidence, and paving the way for success before students began to fail (Raskin & Haar, 2009).

Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of effort» provision, which ensures that districts that receive Title I funding — designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.

Many parents, teachers, and students in wealthy school districts think nothing of throwing the terms «failing school,» «low - performing», etc. at anyone from Windham, Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven — any child from these districts is deemed to be inferior and second - class... it is very hard for the targeted students to overcome these prejudices and for students in wealthy districts to let go of their pre-conceptions.

By leaving the Third Circuit's decision intact, the Court failed to alleviate the risk of increased school district liability for private school tuition and prolonged litigation that drains schools» limited financial and educational resources away from serving all children.

Families need high - quality options to choose from and that will not happen if districts are not allowed to eliminate schools that are failing kids.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.