Sentences with phrase «if failing district»

Nelson Smith explains why, if failing district schools are to reopen and become successful charter schools, they need first to close.

Not exact matches

If the park district fails to come up with the money within the agreed - upon time frame, the foundation will simply put the property up for sale.

Skinner and the federation agree that if the bill fails, taxpayers could save millions of dollars because park district borrowing - and tax rates - will go down when current bonds are retired, probably within the next few years.

If they fail, the Zion Park District has decided to close the money - losing rink, which would end a three - decade tradition of family skating and hockey games.

The Park District will have to break off negotiations with Hoffman if voters fail to approve the tax increase.

But if the district «s suit fails and the petition drive is successful, the referendum questions favored by the petition drive organizers would appear on the ballot, according to officials.

If the measure fails, Walters said, «families looking to buy homes in the district may look elsewhere to find the best parks for their kids.»

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

However, the state education commissioner said if the district fails to submit the signed evaluation plan by July 1, he would recommend to close the school.

Central to those actions will be finalizing plans for five district schools at risk of an outside takeover if they fail to show serious improvement by the end of the school year.

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

If they fail to win back control of the state senate, they will have no power in how district lines are drawn following the 2010 Census.

If it ever did, that would be tantamount to shutting down the schools in an entire district or region because one class teacher failed to teach right, causing his or her students to fail.

If districts failed to meet their targets, the state would call on regional BOCES districts or other outside agencies to step in and help make improvements.

If the legislature fails to establish a redistricting plan for state legislative districts, it falls to the secretary of state to draw the boundaries.

It would be recalled that on August 17 2016, some angry residents of Gbulung and its surrounding communities in the Kumbungu District, threatened to boycott the 2016 polls if government fails to fix their deplorable road network.

Koppell, if he runs, would be counting on some of the wealthy Democrats to vote against Klein for the failure of comprehensive campaign finance and ethics reform, which stalled thanks to a lack of support from Andrew Cuomo and Klein's Republican partners in the Senate, and on Hispanics in the district who are, in Koppell's words, «very disappointed at the way he failed to get the Dream Act through.»

From Another Earth to District 9 to Monsters, sci - fi buffs have been able to savour some truly fantastic pieces of storytelling, even if the mass - market stuff such as John Carter seems to have failed to capture the public's imagination.

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

The fines are a last step if parents fail to respond to calls and letters from the district's attendance officer, Collins told Education World.

If a school or district fails to meet the threshold for a second consecutive year, there will be a reduction in its summative score of 2 percent.

If states and districts act in bad faith and fail to spend money with an eye toward reform and restoration of essential programs and staff, they'll forfeit the second round of funds, expected mid-summer.

Grant districts the right to provide SES, even if the district is failing to make AYP, but also require districts to provide a fair and competitive marketplace for all providers.

If a district that receives federal Title I aid fails to make adequate progress for two consecutive years, it must be labeled in need of «improvement.»

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

It's a simple, powerful idea: if a majority of parents in a failing school sign a petition, the district must implement the parents» preferred turnaround model.

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.

The late Appleton, Wisconsin, superintendent Tom Scullen supported charters within his district but cautioned, «Charter schooling will fail if it tries to become a second track of public education.

Researchers David N. Figlio and Joshua Winicki took a look at elementary school lunch menus in 23 randomly chosen districts across Virginia, where schools face penalties if most of their students continue to fail state Standards of Learning tests.

Pedagogically, if states and districts don't write a curriculum, as CCSS recommends, they fail to provide students the necessary «training program» to achieve the goals the standards set.

If a district fails to do so, the state deducts $ 25 per student from its aid.

If we are going to tell states and districts that they must fix all of their failing schools, or if we are to consider it a moral obligation to radically improve such schools, we should be certain that this endeavor is possiblIf we are going to tell states and districts that they must fix all of their failing schools, or if we are to consider it a moral obligation to radically improve such schools, we should be certain that this endeavor is possiblif we are to consider it a moral obligation to radically improve such schools, we should be certain that this endeavor is possible.

Maybe taxpayers footing the bill, many of them without school - age kids of their own, don't much care if the district fails to satisfy the whims of every parent; what good is a warm - and - fuzzy Waldorf kid to the economy, anyway?

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?»

Simply put, it requires states and districts to follow the dictates of reason and science when spending taxpayers» money on education and holds them accountable if they fail to do so.

Since the rule was established decades ago, the state education department has notified districts that they were at risk of losing state aid if any of their schools fail to meet the desegregation criteria.

Hess and Finn, in hard - hitting chapters that bookend the volume, call on Congress to set realistic expectations for student performance based on national standards, to provide districts with initial flexibility when intervening in failing schools, but to establish tough consequences for superintendents and principals if those efforts are unsuccessful.

Under NCLB, if a school has failed to meet the law's accountability provisions two years in a row, parents have the option of sending their child to a higher - performing public school within the same district.

If a school district doesn't do that, it will fail.»

Under current law, districts already risk losing their Title I dollars if they fail to comply with comparability requirements.

If a school district fails to make adjustments in the face of rising charter school enrollment, and it keeps the same number of staff and facilities despite having fewer students, it will pay a double penalty: Because charter school tuition payments are pegged to a district's average spending per student, a school district's charter payments rise when costs per student rise.

Students in the 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th grades could be held back if they failed to score at the district benchmark in math and reading on nationally normed tests - the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) or the Test of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) for 9th graders.

If a school fails to meet annual state test - score goals for two years, students can transfer to another public school in the district.

What happens if all the high - performing schools in a district are full and can't take the children who were granted public school choice because their own school failed two years in a row?

The provision denies federal funds to states and districts that fail to adopt policies requiring schools to expel students for one year if they are caught bringing a gun to school.

Two, they put existing districts on notice that the revered notion of «local control» must give way if it fails to deliver results for students stuck in lousy schools.

If you fail to respond to the district, then the district's ADA projections provided in its December 1 letter can not be challenged.

If a third grader fails the IREAD - 3, it is up to individual districts to decide how to remediate the student before fourth grade.

While it would be easy to focus our work on the largest and most proximal urban districts, we realized that we would be failing to truly serve our community's needs if we limited our focus to these sites.

Even if states and districts failed to meet the goal initially, the goal put much - needed pressure on them to embrace systemic reform.