Sentences with phrase «of failed urban school»

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

The arrival of charter schools in 1996 offered parents another way out of a failing urban school system.

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Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

Recently released reports from both the Urban Institute and the Manhattan Institute have highlighted the toll of this failure on our young people: Nationwide, one - third of high school students will fail to graduate, and...

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

He is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907 — 81, and, with David Angus, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890 — 1995.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

John White and Joel Klein wrote in The Daily Beast on the benefits of carefully replacing persistently failing urban schools, and Jennifer Brown of The Denver Post showed how big promises and increased funding alone won't get the job done.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Thus gap - closers approach the challenge not as educators but as social engineers, determined to see schools fix the problems that job - training initiatives, urban redevelopment, income supports, and a slew of other well - intentioned government welfare programs have failed to address.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

Cincinnati Turns Failing Elementary Schools Around After implementing what officials call the Elementary Initiative, a group of floundering urban schools has exceeded expectSchools Around After implementing what officials call the Elementary Initiative, a group of floundering urban schools has exceeded expectschools has exceeded expectations.

Billionaire Eli Broad has suspended a coveted, $ 1 - million prize to honor the best urban school systems out of concern that they are failing to improve quickly enough.

Really it is certain types of public schools are failing such as high poverty rural and urban schools.

Like Chicago, these urban districts — such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis and Cleveland — are struggling to figure out the role of failing neighborhood high schools that have been on life support for decades.

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.

My study eventually led me to conclude that we actually had a system - level problem: The existence of long - failing schools was a symptom of the urban school district.

PN: While many public schools, especially in urban areas, are in dire need of reform, I am concerned that there is a lack of clarity about why past reforms have failed and insufficient understanding about the direction change must take if we are to obtain better results.

Supporters, including a group of black Louisville pastors and the Bluegrass Institute, a conservative education think tank, say they would be more free to adopt innovative approaches that could help students, especially in urban areas where some schools repeatedly fail to meet goals.

In one high - performing midwestern urban district, for example, two schools became a focus for district intervention during the final year of our study because they failed to meet AYP targets (the first two schools to be designated in that status).

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.

The success of these programs provides a clue to the root problem of low achievement in so many urban areas: Poverty didn't keep these children from performing better, failing schools did.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

Smarick's «urban school system of the future» would be structured to ensure that high - performing schools are continually replicated, new schools with a diverse array of program offerings are continually opened, persistently failing schools are closed, and family choice is maximized.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competiUrban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competiurban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

«Unfortunately, too many bureaucrats refuse to free urban minority youth from the prison of these failing schools,» Holtz said.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and Christopher Swanson of the Urban Institute found that about 50 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American students fail to earn high school diplomas.

An estimated 40 percent of urban students fail multiple classes in 9th grade, and in many cities 50 percent or more leave school without graduating (Neild, Stoner - Eby, & Furstenberg, 2001).

Urban schools often conjure up images of dilapidated buildings filled with impoverished kids, posting failing test scores.

The sheer number of failing and non-failing schools in urban districts increases the likelihood closing a school will happen in a black neighborhood.

«This a complete slap in the face of every child and parent involved in a failing public school in urban areas,» Williams argues.

And although takeovers of «failed» schools are often justified as rational responses to «urban decay» or «underutilization,» none of these arguments apply to Nashville.

«For children in urban communities with increased class sizes and decreased funding, the tests are a way to prove that the schools are failing so they can be closed and re-opened as charter schools,» said Morna McDermott, a founding organizer of United Opt Out, which issues state - by - state guidance on the topic.

Unfortunately, even if most CT districts do well, even excellently, 40 % of school children are in the failing or low performing districts (there are fewer urban districts but they are very large).

«Gov. Dannel P. Malloy moved quickly Thursday to exploit what Democrats say is an ill - considered and impractical proposal by Republican Tom Foley to allow urban parents to pick the local public school of their choice and strip money from failing schools as their children go elsewhere.

And as for declining enrollment in private schools, private school consumption is decreasing, particularly in urban areas where children are being ruined by failing schools, because of economics, not school quality.

In the report, the researchers point out that most of the schools that are failing in terms of achievement are public schools that serve poor and racial minority students in urban areas.

And yet, the vast majority of urban public schools in the United States fail to provide students with the expectations, academic preparation, or social support necessary to make it to and through college.

For many years, I have been part of creating positive change in Connecticut's schools, both in suburban and urban districts, in schools with high standardized test scores and those labeled as «failing schools» due to their standardized test scores.

The 2010 - 11 school year is witnessing a larger - than - usual upheaval among the ranks of urban superintendents: Ramon Cortines is retiring in Los Angeles next month, Joel Klein quit mid-year in New York City, Michelle Rhee was done after Adrian Fenty's failed re-election bid in the nation's capital last fall, Clifford Janey is out in Newark after his contract wasn't renewed, Ron Huberman stepped down in Chicago last November, Beverly Hall is leaving amidst a cheating scandal in Atlanta, Paul Vallas is moving on from the Big Easy and Jerry Weast is throwing in the towel in Montgomery County, Md..

The educational achievement of black children and the overall quality of urban public schools have failed to improve significantly.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

The DeVos family was also deeply involved in repackaging vouchers from their original racist origin as a way to get white children out of desegregation and into an «only hope» for urban children «trapped» in «failing schools.»