Sentences with phrase «most school closures»

Since most school closures happen at the elementary school level, said Richards, the implications could be far - reaching.

The department controls less than 10 percent of the nation's public school dollars, and most school closures are locally decided, he said.

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

Not exact matches

Smaller schools should consider sharing one head teacher, according to the document, which also suggests that in some cases the «best and most strategic option will be the closure of a school».

While most of the schools on the chopping block had long histories of poor performance, some among the closure list were recently opened by the Bloomberg administration.

Given the risk of closure in the event of heating failures or unsafe buildings, CIF is one of the most important sources of funding available to schools.

Most of the 2,000 pupils facing exams who were affected by the closures are among those heading back to the classroom, after two days away from school.

Instead of takeovers, closures, and other dire options mentioned in press coverage of the law, most states and school districts have chosen less aggressive interventions.

Even the most extreme school - closure program will leave the majority of students in their current schools, many of which are also inadequate.

So far the UFT has not announced plans to sue in the event that the district chooses to close or restart any schools, the two most likely options for the schools previously slated for closure.

However, we found that for rising 9th - grade students, the closure of their most likely high - school option led them to enroll in somewhat higher - performing high schools and substantially improved their likelihood of graduating with a New York State Regents diploma.

Our findings, however, suggest that high school closures in New York City during this particular period produced meaningful benefits for future students while not harming, at least academically, the students most immediately affected by them.

Most importantly, he points out that public money can reach private schools without violating the Constitution, providing an opportunity to save many struggling schools on the brink of closure.

For instance, none of our wonks focused overly much on school closure as a strategy toward greatness; most seem to see it as a way to raise the floor.

Their most important finding is that school closure has significant positive impacts on the achievement of displaced students.

Most students — though not all — landed in higher - quality schools and made gains after closure.

Most of our students and teachers now log onto the learning platform during school closures so that learning isn't disrupted.

This year, by far the most lopsided finding in the survey was about a controversial reform policy: school closures.

The most paternalist policies in place today require the closure of underperforming schools even if they are popular with parents.

But probably the most challenging and controversial aspect of this new approach relates to school closures, which it deems necessary in some cases.

Trymaine Lee's examination of nation wide school closures reveals their effect on children's self esteem, the impact on the immediate community and most importantly, student safety.

When charters don't perform, they face closure — making them the most accountable public schools in the state.

While the bill isn't all that we had hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the coschool closure, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized Black and Brown communities across the country.

While the new law isn't all we hoped for, it does eliminate some of the most damaging components of the previous law's high - states testing and accountability regime and gets rid of the School Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coSchool Improvement Grants program, whose school closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the coschool closures, chartering and reconstitution requirements have destabilized communities of color across the country.

To identify schools that struggle most — and that CPS could examine for potential closure — the Tribune adapted previous CPS school - closings criteria.

The heads of most of the 38 schools facing closure for low academic performance are drafting agreements that would allow the schools to stay open and collaborate with the state.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stSchools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stschools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

To date, this has been the most comprehensive data set ever compiled regarding school closures.

On the school's most recent progress report, released last week, the [NYC] Department of Education gave it a D and ranked it even lower than one of its co-located neighbors, J.H.S. 166, which the city tried to close last year and now has shortlisted again for possible closure.

A decade ago, the country watched with broken hearts as Hurricane Katrina's devastation and destruction forced the closure of most of New Orleans» schools and ushered in a major overhaul of the district's struggling system.

Black and Latino students live disproportionately at or below the poverty line, and it is no accident that we are faced with the most segregated school system in history, with a disproportionate number of school closures happening in the poorest communities - all at the hands of using invalid metrics.

Most charter schools operate under multiyear contracts, so Aldis expects that closures will continue for the next few years.

Listen to J4J's commentary: «To justify this radical transformation... the proponents of these policies have taken to talking about them as matters of racial and social justice... As the residents of the communities most affected by school closures and charter school expansion, we must take issue with this rhetorical description.

The most significant finding was «the positive effects of closure and takeover in New Orleans explain 25 to 40 percent of the total effect of the New Orleans post-Katrina school reforms on student achievement.»

Bifulco and Reback found that, in general, closing schools can be the most effective way to manage some of the fiscal strain produced by charter growth, but that such closures are «politically contentious undertakings.»

Faced with a billion dollar budget deficit, Chicago's public school system is the most recent urban district to announce a massive closure of schools.

In NYC, where I'm most familiar with school closures, the school is not just renamed, or given a new principal — those kids are strewn elsewhere, and the replacement school (s) serve an entirely different set of kids (often with higher incoming test scores).

Education «reformers» often proclaim they are carrying on the tradition of great civil rights leaders, employing the rhetoric of that movement while in reality pushing measures that exacerbate inequality and impact most harshly on children and communities of color - like school closures, privatization, and over-testing.

It examines the evidence supporting the most common school improvement strategies: school choice; reconstitutions, or massive personnel changes; and school closures.

Many of these practices, focused on increased privatization, high stakes testing, mass school closures, school «choice,» and the deprofessionalism of teaching, are not based on solid research, and are not supported by most parents.

District leaders knew they needed to shut down some schools, a process that is never popular, especially in the neighborhoods most directly affected by the closures.

Charter schools are held accountable for their performance and when they do not meet their goals, they face sanctions and closure, making them the most accountable public schools there are.

Their recommendation to either reopen the charter school or maintain its forced closure will then be considered by the full 15 - member state board, most likely during its Sept. 8 meeting.

Charlotte School of Law is one of the most recent closures.

This comprehensive exhibit foregrounds the college's most influential teacher, Josef Albers, an alumnus of and teacher in both the Weimar and Dessau locations of the Bauhaus before immigrating to the US in 1933 after the Nazis forced the closure of the school.