Sentences with phrase «including school closure»

Authorizers face a dynamic legal landscape and a host of difficult issues that are increasingly being addressed in the legal arena — including school closure, lotteries, student discipline, accountability systems, and contracting, among many... View Presentation

The program called for rewarding schools with high and improving scores and imposing sanctions, including school closure, on low - performing schools.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

Before joining the Deputy Mayor's Office, she worked at District of Columbia Public Schools as Chief of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer during which she supported the agency's portfolio planning activities, including school closures, grade configuration changes, and enrollment projections.

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These include encouraging eligible afterschool programs to maximize service by providing suppers instead of or in addition to snacks, recruiting more school districts to provide afterschool suppers and snacks, simplifying the administration of the Afterschool Supper Program, serving meals during weekends, holidays, and school closures, and improving meal quality.

Bloomberg has closed 140 struggling schools since taking charge of the education system in 2003, drawing the ire of critics including mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, the former City Comptroller, who called for a legal moratorium on closures this year.

Alerts will include things like school closings, Office of Emergency Management memos, MTA advisories and street closures.

Two dozen protestors — including NYC Councilmen Charles Barron and Jumaane Willams — were arrested during a demonstration in opposition to planned schools closures.

Eleven of those schools, including Washington Irving High School in Union Square, have since been pegged for closure.

Schools were closed across much of the area affected by the cold snap, including in the Twin Cities on Monday, and there were closures and delays yesterday in much of the Southeast as the weather moved south.

A nationwide list compiled by the Center for Media and Democracy of charter school closures between 2000 and 2013 included 290 Arizona schools.

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaSchool is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaschool in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

There, state law allows e-schools that are designated as drop - out prevention and recovery schools and are sponsored by a local school district to avoid some of Ohio's accountability requirements, including mandatory closure for persistent low performance and accountability for the sponsoring district.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

Such schools exist, and they should be subject to aggressive interventions, including closure.

However, far from a «Wild West» approach to charter oversight, his organization instead advocated for, and got, important accountability measures included in the law: mandatory closure for persistently low - performing charter schools, A — F grading of schools (both charter and public), and an end to so - called «authorizer shopping,» in which failing schools move to a new authorizer after their existing one withdraws its support.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

«Adequate yearly progress» has been eliminated, along with the sanctions — including possible school closure — associated with it.

He also serves as the Principal Investigator on a range of Research Alliance studies including those examining the efficacy of on - track indicators for different grade levels; performance trends in NYC high schools; and the effects of school closure.

While most school closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool closures are decided locally, the Education Department's School Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including cloSchool Improvement Grant gives underperforming school districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closchool districts money for shakeups or turnarounds, including closures.

Implementation of the school closure model may include, but is not limited to, closing a school and enrolling its students in other schools within the district that are in good standing.

The Assembly has proposed revisions to the enrollment and retention policy that many traditional district schools themselves have not been able to meet and includes penalties that would likely result in the closure of charter schools across the state.

One line of thinking goes that families generally should be able to choose schools, but that low - achieving schools, including charters, should face consequences, including closure.

«As our enrollment continues to decline, the board will have to make more difficult decisions about funding, including potential reductions in workforce and school closures,» she wrote.

This month, the CCSA is calling for the closure of six schools across the state because of poor academic performance, including one in Los Angeles.

The stakes attached to them now commonly include school funding and evaluation and closure, teacher pay and evaluation and firings, and of course student promotion and self - perception.

The state received a perfect score on school accountability, which includes reports on performance, performance management and replication, renewal standards, and default closure.

In the GOP Assembly plan, both the board and DPI would establish criteria to determine a school's letter grade, including test scores on math and reading, graduation and attendance rates, and the closure of achievement gaps between groups of students.

The report also includes findings that indicate a sharp increase in charter school closures after a two - year decline.

That law places emphasis on the schools reducing the so - called «achievement gap,» and contains sanctions for schools that fail to do so, up to and including closure.

The involvement of the Broad Foundation especially is likely to cause a stir, as the group is linked to aggressive and oftentimes controversial reforms in schools, including outright closures and staff overhauls now being championed by Cerf and Christie as options for New Jersey.

That feedback persuaded the chancellor to remove five schools from her original closure list, including Garrison Elementary and Francis - Stevens Education Campus, two Northwest Washington schools in relatively affluent neighborhoods.

About a dozen of these districts are using cooperation, also commonly referred to as district - charter collaboration, to drive decisions and address systemic challenges, including tracking school performance, student enrollment, and school closure.

Proposed new powers include the ability to prevent private schools from recruiting new pupils and force closure.

For years, this provision dangled threats of punitive measures, including closure, over struggling schools if they didn't meet narrow federally mandated test - based measures of accountability.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

Question: Our district recently had an emergency school closure and all schools, including ours, were closed for the full day.

A spokesperson for council said there had been an «evolution towards two - tier, as schools of all types have been exploiting their increased autonomy», and admitted the mix of schools has caused «pressures», including the closure of three middle schools in 2014 when nearby schools decided to change their age ranges.

The plan also includes four school closures this summer; Roberts has rejected earlier proposals that called for closing 28 schools over the next five years.

His data - driven achievements include an award for attaining the largest ethnic group performance gap closure for the 2014 — 2015 school year.

The 2010 law allows parents at low - performing schools to petition for a takeover that can include installing new leadership, closure or conversion to a charter school.

$ 5 million in the coming year to supplement services to schools affected by closures, phase outs, etc including schools that receive students from closed schools.

These included the closure of two children's centres, reduced nursery places, a school improvement service cut in half, and a support service for vulnerable children removed in its entirety.

The government also announced a package of measures to protect small rural schools including extra financial support and a requirement that any closure would have to be agreed by the local authority and the regional schools commissioner.

There are some closures planned this time of two very small elementary schools, including one for special - education students and those proposals have already sparked some debate.

It also requires that CPS «develop policies to remedy academic deficiencies in schools where students are testing «at or below 75 %» standards on state assessments, and to include in those policies clear criteria for board actions relating to school facility interventions such as closures.»

In sum, when schools with high proportions of Black and Latino students close, Black and Latino teachers bear a disproportionate impact of these closures including loss of jobs.

This suggests that school closure is something that happens in Hartford frequently enough to merit a policy that includes and protect parents from arbitrary decisions.

The demands are related to major parts of the national Movement for Black for Lives platform, including a federal right to education (Invest / Divest) and an end to school privatization / charter schools, school closures, and mayoral - controlled school boards (Community Control), all issues we are grappling with in Hartford, Connecticut.

Legislators are currently considering four other CTU - supported bills that directly impact conditions in public schools: HB 5481, requiring school districts to report class size data to ISBE and sets targets for K - 12 class sizes beginning in 2020; HB5721, which mandates improved public input and transparency in CPS capital spending and provides supports for schools and students hit with school actions like closings and turnarounds; HB 3786, which requires fully empowered local school councils in publicly funded schools, including charters, that must vote by a super-majority to approve school closures and reorganizations; and HB 4800, which would move surplus TIF funds to public education needs.