Sentences with phrase «like recovery school districts»

Lastly, extraordinary authority bodies, like the Recovery School District, can take away a district's schools and either directly manage or convert them to charter status.

Not exact matches

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posSchool District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posschool system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

In Los Angeles, when graduation standards were raised and it looked like many students would be denied high school diplomas, the school district turned to online credit recovery courses to get the students back on track.

Originally envisioned to resemble the Recovery School District reform initiative in New Orleans and Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, the Commissioner's Network hasn't been as well received by Parent Power advocates in the state as Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor would like.

And as more and more students are graduating from districts like Los Angeles but appear not to have learned what high school graduates are expected to know, there is a growing concern that credit recovery programs may not deliver.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Two unique opportunities exist within ESSA for states to utilize funding that would have gone to districts under past federal formulas, but can now be used for specific programs or purposes like personalized learning, credit recovery, or programs that support school leaders or principals.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places...

And if a lot of those proposals described similar college - prep approaches, former Recovery superintendent Patrick Dobard is the first to admit his district focused on opening schools that raised test scores from the pre-Katrina basement — «like triage,» he said — not on creating a range of school types for parents.

We see this in data from randomized admissions lotteries and from districts (like the New Orleans Recovery School District) that assign responsibility for failing schools to «No Excuses» networks.