Sentences with phrase «in failing school systems»

«To me, being a warrior for social justice means doing whatever it takes to change the odds for kids who are stuck in failing school systems,» she says.

This organization has been one of the most effective groups in the country at expanding these options and giving children trapped in a failing school system a new chance at success in life.

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Or did you just fail English as a fifth language in the Pakastani Public School and Gulag System back in the 90's?

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

They may have recently broken up with a girlfriend or boyfriend; failed an exam or had a decline in school performance; shown signs of an eating disorder; or have become involved somehow with the justice system.

What we're seeing in Birmingham is part of the systematic failings in the current school system.

In his letter, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Suffolk County) accused the school system of failing to comply with state education law by not submitting the required forms showing a building - by - building breakdown of how it spends local, state and federal funds.

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

That strategy pins the blame for failing schools solely on the de Blasio administration, the United Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers, who are caught in a bind of defending a public school system that objectively contains many low - performing schools, most of which have been struggling for decades.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

Charters are a great alternative for parents to the failing school system in NYC.

Failing schools in the inner city are a major problem and frankly, I'd quite like someone who had direct experience of the issues in the system developing policy.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.&raquIn an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.&raquin the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

«Our city school system in Syracuse is failing,» she said.

Your friend Tristram Hunt of course is guilty of the same Neo-Liberal agenda, he supported free schools right up to the point where they started to fail in Sweden, then rapidly reversed to just supporting the Academies which the teaching profession reject and only work with it from imposition, even that now has turned into mass protest forcing the numskull Tories to publicly retreat, although they will secretly use the inspectors to rig the system, where good schools are deemed poor by their diktat.

The Senate's inclusion of a «district inspector» for the city's public school system comes after de Blasio tried and failed to unseat the Republican majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections.

The public school system continues to fail hundreds of thousands of students, because the mayor remains in thrall to the teachers union.

Cuomo is tying much of the increase to approval of his education policy changes in this year's budget, including a new teacher evaluation system, addressing failing schools by having them taken over by a state monitory and a strengthening of charter schools.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Let's dedicate $ 100 million to transform every failing school in New York into a comprehensive, holistic, full - service community school and change the basic education system in this state and stop the cycle of incarceration in this state and paying for problems, rather than stopping the problems at an early age.

In a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation systeIn a preliminary injunction made public yesterday, a court ordered that the State can not withhold $ 260 million in aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation systein aid from NYC schools in response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation systein response to the City and teachers» union failing to reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

But for too long the Buffalo Public School System was failing in this basic task.

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

A majority of public schools have failed to meet a state deadline to have a new teacher evaluation system in place.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

Aware that even the most talented students failed to receive Ph.D. s and find employment in science and engineering, Hrabowski created a system in 1988 to mold high - achieving minority high school students into elite researchers.

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«They may fail to develop secure attachments, setting them up for a cascade of difficulties, from behavior problems during childhood and failure in school to involvement in the juvenile justice system and major psychiatric problems down the road.»

Though NCLB's consequences were too rigid and hard to enforce, they were rooted in the basic premise that a top - down accountability system can only work if parents have some sort of recourse when schools fail.

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

But the OSSE report details multiple failings in the school system's high school office, from faulty communications to lax oversight.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network, said: «There needs to be more accountability in the system so parents can get the change they want when a local school is failing.

Given that similar factors are at work in Florida's accountability system, I suspect that most, if not all, of the improvements in school performance in that state's failing schools are attributable to the state's administered accountability system, not to the voucher component of that program.

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.

Where we have strong charter schools which have found a way to serve many of the children we have failed in our mainstream system, shame on us if we don't embrace these proven providers and give them the chance to scale up their success.

The school system in the state's second - largest city is one of nearly 200 that have been placed on a financial «watch list» by the state board of education for failing to meet fiscal guidelines.

Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as posSchool — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as posschool system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

North Carolina has a similar accountability system, in that low - performing schools are publicly identified as failing.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

School officials in Baltimore said the city school system hired 32 teachers this year who failed to pass a test of basic writing competency; another 100 teachers who failed the basic - skills examination were hired last year and remain on the staff, school officiSchool officials in Baltimore said the city school system hired 32 teachers this year who failed to pass a test of basic writing competency; another 100 teachers who failed the basic - skills examination were hired last year and remain on the staff, school officischool system hired 32 teachers this year who failed to pass a test of basic writing competency; another 100 teachers who failed the basic - skills examination were hired last year and remain on the staff, school officischool officials...

, chronicled a host of K — 12 school systems that are moving away from the age - old tradition of failing students whose work doesn't cut it, in hopes of keeping students motivated and on the road toward graduation.

Hanushek overstates the cost of many of our contracts and fails to note that usually the work includes additional studies to assist policymakers in developing funding systems for high - performing schools.

The conditions were ideal for this groundbreaking shift: a citywide consensus that the old system had failed; a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to build a new system from scratch; the availability of federal school start - up funds; and the keen interest of education entrepreneurs, foundations, and support organizations in seeing this bold reform succeed.

Parents of children assigned to failing schools in the New York City and Albany, N.Y., systems claimed in a lawsuit last week that those districts had denied students the chance to transfer or receive supplemental services as required by the federal law.