Sentences with phrase «neighborhood schools bill»

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Albany, NY — Alan is joined by New York State Senator Bill Perkins, who is challenging charter school funding and questioning whether public schools are being left behind in some of the state's poorer neighborhoods.

But this is obviously not the case: Tisch yesterday blasted the Senate bill for neither limiting the number of charters allowed in a certain neighborhood nor making it harder for them to share space with underpopulated traditional public schools.

«These aren't pilot programs that help a lucky few; they are foundational changes that will lift up schools in every neighborhood,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio at the announcement, which can be seen in the video below.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio has made community schools a central part of his education agenda, critics have said there is mixed research on whether the community school model actually improves academic achievement in low - income neighborhoods.

The bill would provide extra support for charter school expansion, including providing new incentives for raising or abolishing charter school caps, and for taking decisions for authorizing new charter schools away from local school boards — despite substantial research showing that charter schools overall are no better than traditional neighborhood schools.

«It's clear there are some very good schools in very low - income neighborhoods, which is our focus,» said Bill Siart, GPSN chairman.

«The bill charts a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them, paving the way for struggling schools to be converted to privately run charter schools unanswerable to locally elected school boards and taxpayers,» she said.

In an effort to encourage collaboration between charter schools and traditional neighborhood schools, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $ 25 million in grants to seven cities...

Also missing from the bill, Duncan said, is a commitment to programs that encourage innovation, like Promise Neighborhoods, a program that replicated ideas from the Harlem Children's Zone in school districts around the country, or the Investing in Innovation i3 grant.

In terms of addressing the struggling neighborhood schools — which would still remain, even if a «school of hope» came to town and offered parents another option — the bill expedites turnaround strategies, so that students don't languish for years in schools with a failing status.

The bill, authored by State Sens. José Menéndez (D - San Antonio) and Paul Bettencourt (R - Houston) reflects another bipartisan effort to support neighborhood schools while acknowledging the growing role of charters.

Bill Crim, at the United Way of Salt Lake, sees community schools as the on the ground vehicle to implement their Promise Neighborhoods and collective impact strategy.

House Bill 788, introduced Thursday, would break the link between neighborhood and school, allowing students with the right connections to attend a school outside their neighborhood.

While small, neighborhood elementary schools are not only allowed but encouraged for urban and suburban districts, Malloy's bill will force small towns to regionalize their elementary schools or face losing their state education funding.

This bill would force school districts to divert more funds from neighborhood public schools to charter schools.

The first choice of most parents is to send their child to a high - quality neighborhood school; it is unclear how this bill supports that choice.

2 Title IV, Part F, Subpart 2 — Community Support for School Success Full Service Community Schools program The bill also contains provisions that advance the community schools strategy, including the requirement for indicators beyond academics in state and district accountability systems; supportive programs including Promise Neighborhoods and 21st Century Community Learning Centers; and a new set of tools and resources to boost results - focused school - community partnerships for young people's success, including integrated student supports, needs assessments, and professional development for educators to work more effectively with families and communSchool Success Full Service Community Schools program The bill also contains provisions that advance the community schools strategy, including the requirement for indicators beyond academics in state and district accountability systems; supportive programs including Promise Neighborhoods and 21st Century Community Learning Centers; and a new set of tools and resources to boost results - focused school - community partnerships for young people's success, including integrated student supports, needs assessments, and professional development for educators to work more effectively with families and commuSchools program The bill also contains provisions that advance the community schools strategy, including the requirement for indicators beyond academics in state and district accountability systems; supportive programs including Promise Neighborhoods and 21st Century Community Learning Centers; and a new set of tools and resources to boost results - focused school - community partnerships for young people's success, including integrated student supports, needs assessments, and professional development for educators to work more effectively with families and commuschools strategy, including the requirement for indicators beyond academics in state and district accountability systems; supportive programs including Promise Neighborhoods and 21st Century Community Learning Centers; and a new set of tools and resources to boost results - focused school - community partnerships for young people's success, including integrated student supports, needs assessments, and professional development for educators to work more effectively with families and communschool - community partnerships for young people's success, including integrated student supports, needs assessments, and professional development for educators to work more effectively with families and communities.

Bill Siart, GPSN's chairman, said the track record that some schools have had over the last decade in improving outcomes for students in low - income neighborhoods means that replicating success is now possible in a way that wasn't before.

Homeowners in San Francisco can now enter a contest where the winnings (up to $ 5,000) go to groups of people (from a neighborhood, school, condo complex) who cut their electric and natural gas bills the most in a month, compared with the similar monthly period a year earlier.