Sentences with phrase «high number of failing schools»

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

Not exact matches

But if groups of failing schools are eventually turned into charters, it could give the sector an opportunity to dispel the common criticism charters don't enroll sufficient numbers of high - needs students.

Some lawmakers believe a lawsuit could claim that the higher number of failing city schools is in breach of state and federal law which denies each student a «sound basic education.»

But some high - profile bills failed to pass in the session that ended June 1 — including a proposal to lift the cap on the number of charter schools permitted, a request that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has made of all states.

«Given this was a voluntary process with only 25 % of schools responding, it is reasonable to assume that schools who know they are not compliant would be less likely to respond, therefore the true number who are failing to comply could be substantially higher, with hundreds of schools putting pupils and teachers at risk by failing to manage asbestos effectively.

A 2009 report by Parthenon Group, a private consulting firm commissioned by the NYC Department of Education, showed that the city's «failing schools» had enrolled a disproportionate number of «high need» students.

Bloomberg turned nearly all the city's high schools into schools of choice, increased the number of charter schools from 22 to 159, instituted a grading system for schools, and closed those that were failing to educate their students.

But almost as persistent as the district's low test scores and high dropout rates were the number of school superintendents — eight in seven years — who promised change and failed to deliver, swallowed up by petty politics and power struggles.

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

NPR looks into the «summer melt» phenomenon — the large number of poor high school students who say they are continuing on to college but fail to show up in the fall.

Our education system is already failing huge numbers of students each year — over half a million dropped out of high school during school year 2008 - 2009 alone — and is slipping in international rankings.

The A-F school grades were high stakes from the start — students who attended F - rated schools for a number of years were then eligible to flee their designated failing school and receive taxpayer funded vouchers to use at private schools.

As we strive to improve high school achievement, we must not forget the increasing number of students who fail to graduate.

But critics say the measure is too simple — it fails to sufficiently account for the academic growth that good schools help students achieve and does not take into consideration the challenges that schools serving a high number of poor students face.

While Duncan's did lower dropout rates in the city's high schools, when he left Chicago, the number of 11th graders who failed to meet the state standards was about 70 percent.

CCRPI moves schools away from the all or nothing, pass / fail mentality that repeatedly doomed schools with poor academic performance to the lowest rungs — especially those serving a high number of students in poverty.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kHigh schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of khigh school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

As we are now seeing, requiring all schools to meet the same high standards for all students, regardless of family background, will inevitably lead either to large numbers of failing schools or to a dramatic lowering of state standards.

We'll place the SAT at the center of high school accountability with more than half of a school's performance rating based on SAT scores, while a growing number of colleges and universities recognize that the SAT fails to properly predict college success and move to drop the testing requirement.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

While Connecticut's privately owned charter schools left the legislative session with a higher reimbursement rate for each student, more money for school equipment, and funds to expand the number of charter schools, Governor Malloy and the legislature failed to come up with the money need to maintain existing services at Connecticut's public magnet schools, let alone fill the extra magnet school classrooms that have been built and are ready to be used this coming September.

«With the new standards and changes in the accountability system, easily, this number will at least double or triple statewide,» Martinez said, forecasting that the relationship between high enrollment of impoverished students and failing schools will only heighten.

LST stands by the assertion that dozens of ABA - approved law schools know that they have admitted large numbers of students who, based on their low LSAT scores, coupled with commensurately low undergraduate GPAs, are at high risk of academic failure or failing the bar.