Sentences with phrase «kids out of a failing school»

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Somebody who is not well off and whose child is in a failing school, why shouldn't those parents have the same options to get the kid out of the failing school and into one that works with the help of the state?

Post the grades online and give parents the option of transferring their kids out of failing schools or converting them to charter schools.

Not exact matches

Our passion for the breakfast - in - the - classroom model for school breakfast is rooted in many things, including one point Ellen made in «Kids Need Breakfast to Succeed», excerpted above — when breakfast is moved out of the cafeteria and into the classroom, participation goes up without fail (emphasis ours).

«I've seen kids who were on the verge of failing out of school who got glasses from New Eyes and their lives changed,» says Gyllenhaal.

The temperature is well above the freezing mark we failed to achieve in February and the kids are out of school.

At some point it hit me like a truck that we've created all these programs and services for kids, and yet kids are still failing and skidding out of school at tragic rates.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

These Opportunity Scholarships provide poor kids — almost all black and Latino — with a lifeline out of failing schools.

Few parents have the time, energy or education policy experience to go hunting for the facts on which schools are actually helping all their students learn, which ones are in desperate need of support, and which ones are eking it out for affluent kids but still failing to deliver an equal education to every child.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

A voucher would give a kid a chance to opt out of a failing public school and use his education dollars to pay for a private school of his choice.

More specifically, if we allowed school systems to run as a marketplace might — where failing schools lose dollars if kids are pulled out — instead of promising a steady level of funding despite failures, maybe we would see more success.

«It just kind of turned into, «Oh, we're just going to test kids and put out these failing lists of schools.»»