Sentences with phrase «get out of failing schools»

Five years ago, the General Assembly created a school choice program to help low - income students get out of failing schools.

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Give it a rest, because even a bully in a school yard would know that out of nothing nothing happens, but of course it would take the nerd to conceive what the bully would not get even perhaps at a ripe old age, that what was always before the something which lead to the «thing» on the bully's hand was the Infinite and that what's on the bully's hand can be infinitely divided, or that between the bully's pinky and thumb exists an infinity in itself, as is between the number 1 and another number 1 (one unit and another unit), which make 2, or that the bully's hand will at one infinitely minute point in time disolve into the INFINITE, give it a rest Tom, Tom with the spelling, since you can not comprehend what lays between the fine letters, let alone conceive the truth, and distill knowledge from the ore your inadequate imagination fails to mine.

«I've seen kids who were on the verge of failing out of school who got glasses from New Eyes and their lives changed,» says Gyllenhaal.

David Cameron defended his education secretary on television this morning, insisting he was happy with the government's record of getting more highly qualified teachers into schools and taking 250,000 children out of failing schools.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

After getting kicked out of law school, fast - talking Jay Garvey (Brad Raider) and his failed medical school pal, Nick (Sean Murray), discover that the wild beach partiers during college spring break need legal assistance to stay out of jail.

Vying for Rileys acceptance as a cool bird, Eddie starts getting into all sorts of trouble - failing school, beaking off to his parents and flying out on chores.

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.

Or the state could simply require that districts that fail to reduce costs responsibly get out of the property - ownership business, either by having the state assume ownership, by placing the buildings into a third - party trust, or by establishing a cooperative to which charter schools have equal rights.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

Rep. Jim Christiana, main sponsor of the bill, says «It's an attractive program for those who want to get students out of violent, failing schools.»

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

Somebody who is not well off and whose child is in a failing school, why shouldn't those parents have the same options to get the kid out of the failing school and into one that works with the help of the state?

Stewart says the wider charter school movement is failing to get its message out, in large part because it's forgetting about the first commandment of politics: IT»S ALL ABOUT YOUR BASE.

The task for the legislature is to create an education system that benefits all children, and no longer keeps children trapped in failing schools with no way of getting out.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

At the beginning of that school year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon Sschool year, we felt so fortunate to have found a way to get our children out of our failing neighborhood public school and into a Blue Ribbon Sschool and into a Blue Ribbon SchoolSchool.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

You get schools to «fail» by setting up ridiculous benchmarks (such as «No Child Left Behind» and now «Common Core»); and then when the school has failed, you take it out of local control and turn it over to charter school companies and other «reformers.»

They want to use charter schools and vouchers and scholarship tax credits to get their children out of failing schools and into better ones.

When the Ohio Department of Education moved to close two imagine charters for «overall poor performance,» Imagine Schools responded like someone trying to get out of a speeding ticket: it's suing the state for failing to close schools that perform evenSchools responded like someone trying to get out of a speeding ticket: it's suing the state for failing to close schools that perform evenschools that perform even worse.

Colorado applies the hopeful phrase «Turnaround Plan» to struggling schools, but the reality is that many of them fail to meet the state's targets and get reprogrammed out of existence.

Similarly, the school would get dinged for failing to get improvement out of a 10th grader who starts the year at an 11th grade reading level.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

The DeVos family was also deeply involved in repackaging vouchers from their original racist origin as a way to get white children out of desegregation and into an «only hope» for urban children «trapped» in «failing schools.»

Mom got him cheap because he failed out of helper dog school, but he's still very talented.

i only liked whene da guy nelsen becouse he teach me well and and has paytions and he was a cool person but he moved to pa.and now am took lessions with universal driving school thats one of da best driving schools they are freindly & good in structors and they, ll help you get da jod done i took a lesion wit them de other day before my road test he teach me very well but i failed becouse i was a little nervis and my instructer looked out for me and said i need more practice and i agrey becouse i didn, t get enuf practice i took lessions wit 2 deffent schools and dat was my fist time wit dis one.but ill pass da second time ill take it i just need efuf practice.