Sentences with phrase «of failing schools the district»

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

When Gary Chico, the Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education finished the board meeting six weeks ago, The Vallas Group had «won» a million - dollar contract to come in and assist some of the failing school districts in northern Illinois.

Not exact matches

The school district failed to give Anderson formal notice of inefficiency or 90 days to correct his failings before firing him.

Several parents accused the district of failing to learn any lessons from the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that left 13 people dead.

Cafeteria managers across the state had complained for a year about food that reeked of ammonia, but state and federal regulators failed to alert school districts.

Close on the heels of Sodexo's $ 21 million settlement with the state of New York for failing to properly pass on rebates and volume discounts to the school districts it serves, two assembly members in New Jersey have petitioned that state's attorney... [Continue reading]

The latest attempt at reaching a storm - water agreement failed after the school district opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of medistrict opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of meDistrict that was crafted with the assistance of mediators.

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

The BOE states that the City of Mount Vernon and the Mayor of the City of Mount Vernon, Richard W. Thomas have failed to respond to the District's request in any manner and continued to negotiate PILOT agreements which adversely affect the educational services offered to students of the Mount Vernon City School District.

As the Buffalo Public School District works to improve its failing schools debate is growing over the strength of charter schools.

It also allows the groups to push for charters as an alternative to district schools by justifying the existence of charters by the existence of failing non-charter schools.

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

Under Cuomo's community schools proposal, the 17 districts with schools that are deemed to be «failing» or «persistently struggling» by the state would be eligible for part of $ 75 million that supports efforts to establish community schools.

Shortly after F.E.S. released its «forgotten fourth» report, StudentsFirstNY released its own study showing zero percent pass rates on math and English exams in 75 of the city's district schools, along with a call to de Blasio to «fix» the failing schools.

AUSTIN — Attorneys for hundreds of school districts urged a state judge Tuesday to again overturn Texas» school finance system, arguing that the Legislature failed last year to fix problems that have plagued the system.

Other expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure reports.)

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

The Rochester School District failed to properly evaluate its administrators in 2013 - 14, assigning some of them perfect observation scores without ever actually observing them, according to an internal report.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

Central to those actions will be finalizing plans for five district schools at risk of an outside takeover if they fail to show serious improvement by the end of the school year.

The Hempstead Union Free School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuSchool District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuschool year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.

The mother of slain Brentwood High School teen Kayla Cuevas has filed a $ 110 million federal suit against the Brentwood schools saying the district failed to protect her daughter against MS - 13 gang members and ignored warnings about repeated threats to the girl.

Three of the four Suffolk County school districts that attempted to pierce the state tax cap last night failed.

Capping charters in a certain neighborhood, for instance, is a shot aimed directly at parents in Harlem — where a proliferation of charters is starting to offer real alternatives to failing district schools.

The Senate's inclusion of a «district inspector» for the city's public school system comes after de Blasio tried and failed to unseat the Republican majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections.

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.

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

An Albany County state supreme court justice has ruled against plaintiffs from eight «small city school districts» who contended that the state has failed to adequately fund them in light of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit that almost a decade ago found that New York City schools had been systemically shortchanged when it came to state aid.

«The governor plans for major interventions for the City of Buffalo school district as well as the school districts that are failing all over the state,» said Hochul during a recent appearance in downtown Buffalo.

The Citizens Budget Commission said in its analysis of the governor's proposal that Cuomo «fails» to improve school aid formulas and favors wealthier districts.

... According to court documents, Christie's budget fails to meet the funding requirements set forth by the School Funding Reform Act of 2008, a spending formula that guarantees financial support for all New Jersey public school distSchool Funding Reform Act of 2008, a spending formula that guarantees financial support for all New Jersey public school distschool districts.

«This is the real scandal in Albany, the alarming fact that state government has stood by and done nothing as generation after generation of students have passed through failing schools,» Cuomo said in a series of press releases he issued Thursday naming each failing school and the legislators whose districts they are located in.

One of the new elements discussed was Warren saying that she will request that the NYS Education Commissioner and the Board of Regents establish a special Receivership District to help failing schools that fall under receivership by the state.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Interim Buffalo School Superintendent Don Ogilvie says the school district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education DeparSchool Superintendent Don Ogilvie says the school district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education Deparschool district has a Friday deadline to submit a round of proposed turnaround plans for four failing city schools to prevent closure by the New York State Education Department.

He opposes the state's approach to so - called «failing schools,» some of which are located in the Syracuse City School District.

Instead, he wants to adopt a model from Massachusetts that yanks the control of failing schools from the local district.

Of those 18 Syracuse City School District schools, 10 have qualified as failing repeatedly for a decade, according to Cuomo's report.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

Meanwhile you appeared in your own ads on television outfitted in sartorial splendor, perfectly coiffed, while seemingly inferring to the parents of East Ramapo that the best solution to their problem is to have a teacher like you, or perhaps your girlfriend, take over what the East Ramapo School District is increasingly failing to do.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

The Oysterponds school district in Orient, one of the smallest schools in the state, is the only district on Long Island that failed to have its teacher evaluation plan approved by Thursday's deadline and is expected to lose some state aid as a result of not having an approved - plan in place.

Is this a case of a single failing school in the midst of a successful school district or is it a case where many or most of a district's schools are failing?

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

A team of conservative legal scholars last week filed a complaint charging that two Southern California school districts fail to offer students school choice as required under federal law and asked the U.S. Department of Education to withhold the districts» federal funds.

One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

In fact, the multiplicity of high - spending / low - achievement districts would seem to indicate that money is decidedly not the measure of a good school, that the approach fails on fundamental grounds of science.