Sentences with phrase «inadequate schools»

Few would seek to deny American public school students access to the courts when inadequate school funding threatens their chances for achieving academic, and ultimately economic, success.

But there were still nearly 250,000 pupils being taught in inadequate schools and 1.5 million in schools that require improvement.

Contemporary educational thought holds that one of the pivotal causes of inadequate school performance is the inability of schools to adequately staff classrooms with qualified teachers.

The individual and societal toll is clear: Those who attend inadequate schools are hampered in becoming fully engaged citizens.

For this group, poverty and income inequality, not inadequate schools, are the fundamental problem in American education that needs to be fixed.

Students living in impoverished circumstances often exhibit inadequate school readiness.

The current method of financing public education, plaintiffs argue, has left poor and minority students with inadequate schools.

An interesting statistic would be to see what percentage of that first wave of inadequate schools is no longer inadequate.

Summer learning loss, poor school attendance and inadequate school readiness are the three major reasons why children do not read at grade level.

Black Families Have a Long History of Using School Choice as Resistance to Racist and Inadequate School Systems - Philly's 7th Ward

However Mr Simons said: «There are quite a few inadequate schools in the maintained sector that sit there for a long time before action is taken, whereas the Department for Education does take action on under - performing chains more rapidly.»

A group of Conservative councils have written to Prime Minister Theresa May to voice their concerns over inadequate school funding in England.

Instead of pushing LA maintained inadequate schools into limbo, it would likely be more cost - effective and less disruptive to allow LAs to support their struggling schools.

If inadequate schools can improve before becoming academies, then why does the DfE still promote the more expensive option of mandatory academization for such schools?

The recruitment of 8000 teachers this year is part of a series of interventions intended to mitigate the problem of inadequate school facilities and poor training for teachers.

The Attorney General's office should conduct a review of all charter schools in Illinois to identify inadequate school oversight by boards of directors or executives and publicize the findings; and

The report, Whole System Reform: England's Schools and the Middle Tier argues that the rapid spread of academies and free schools has created an increasingly fragmented school system which has led to inadequate school place planning and a lack of robust and transparent quality assurance for new school providers.

The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

Most recently, an Alaska trial court ruled that plaintiffs had failed to prove inadequate school funding in that state, holding only that more state oversight over how some districts spent their money was needed.

«We must avoid a future that continues to consign millions of poor children to inadequate schools lacking the great teachers and principals they need.

(P) arents can, the report explains, be brought around to support what the authors characterize as «bold action to transform deeply inadequate schools, including closing or fundamentally reshaping the leadership, programs, and staffing at these schools.»

New figures have cast further doubt on the government's assertion that becoming an academy improves schools — revealing inadequate schools have more chance of improving by staying under local authority control.

In my most cynical moments, I never thought education leaders in any major school district could get away with purposely unleashing a small army of ill - equipped teachers on students who already suffer from inadequate schools and poor achievement.

And parents and children languish in inadequate school circumstances they would prefer to leave and dependent on a lottery number coming up.

A second reason for the lack of impact, could be that the way the Coalition government have made inadequate schools into academies was not as effective as the way it was done under Labour.

«Inadequate school resources — particularly library resources — is a direct consequence of school budget constraints which are tied to the larger issue of how schools are funded,» Tuck says.

More than a dozen Conservative councils have written to Prime Minister Theresa May to warn of their «alarm» at inadequate school funding in England.

Their whine included inadequate school funding, the usual dumping on charter schools and blaming ALEC for various social ills.

The sessions — including one scheduled in Orlando on Jan. 27 — will focus largely on inadequate school funding, accountability for charters schools and how charter funding affects traditional districts.

In recent years, the school board has protested about inadequate school funding and has blamed funding formulas, such as a «2x formula,» which awards steeper funding increases to school districts that previously have had less funding per pupil.

At the same time, a lawsuit over inadequate school funding is making its way through the courts, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called for change.

If inadequate schools have long been eligible for conversion, and the DfE hasn't explicitly committed to turning all of them into academies, perhaps because it can not find enough good sponsors for them all.

do not offer a high quality, engaging and safe educational experience because they are under resourced and suffer from challenges such as limited availability of effective instructional strategies and supports for learning, high rates of staff turnover and teacher absenteeism, and inadequate school facilities?

The Attorney General's office should conduct a review of all charter schools in Pennsylvania to identify potential fraud or inadequate school oversight by boards of directors or executives and publicize the findings.

The task force will focus primarily on issues surrounding «inadequate school funding, charter school accountability and its impact on school funding for under - funded districts.»

Employers and their organizations fault an inadequate school system that fails to prepare Americans and restrictive immigration laws that prevent employers from importing the skilled workers they need from abroad.

Whatever small gains have occurred, they hardly support the conclusion that spending increases constitute the solution to the city's inadequate schools.

Local school district trustees in Toronto, along with those in the Ottawa - Carleton and Hamilton - Wentworth systems, defied the Progressive Conservative government by refusing to submit balanced budgets in July to protest what they say is an inadequate school finance system.

At the time — it feels like just yesterday — Lone Star Governor Rick Perry was riding high in the polls, making an issue of education, and taking flak from Secretary Arne Duncan for running an inadequate school system.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

Inadequate school - community coordination.

And yet there's increasing evidence that inadequate schools are more likely to remain inadequate if they become academies than if they remained as LA schools.

How long would you give an LA to turn around an Inadequate school?

The trust said Golden Hillock was «categorically not an inadequate school» and had only been part of the trust for five months when it was inspected.

«Indeed, as today's report makes clear, headteachers who are new to the post in an inadequate school have much higher retention rates than those who have been in post for two or more years.»

«I grew up in New York City, and I never attended my zoned school, because my family recognized flaws in a system that consigns too many students to inadequate schools.

But, when taken in tandem with Ofsted ratings, the IDACI per cent falls even more (i.e. the area gets richer) so that those living within one kilometre of an outstanding secondary have an IDACI score of 15.5 per cent, and those living within one kilometre of an inadequate school have an IDACI score of 25.3 per cent.

The task force will focus primarily on issues surrounding «inadequate school funding, ch...