Sentences with phrase «of failing states around»

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there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The free safety was Robert Jiles, who committed to Washington State but failed to qualify academically before bouncing around to a handful of smaller programs.

After failing to get any offers the last two times around and dropping the minimum required bid by $ 300,000, the state has sold one of its empty upstate prisons: The 31 - acre Camp Georgetown in Madison County.

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

He said the state has «condemned» 250,000 children — often poor and of color — to failing schools, and proposed a model for turning those schools around by handing them over to nonprofits or turnaround experts to create «community schools.»

«I'm here because I've seen too many generations pass through failing schools without someone taking responsibility for turning them around,» he added, referring to Cuomo's plan for state takeover of failing schools.

The crux of the conflict revolves around the charge from state regulators that ESCOs target low - income customers and fail to deliver on their advertised promises.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

And they've always had plenty of support from elected officials from elsewhere around the state, to derail any effort to impose toll sanity, including Mayor Bloomberg's failed congestion - pricing bid in 2008.

Meanwhile, black and Latino legislators and activists are protesting today around the state to urge Cuomo to forge a legislative solution that would disregard the congressional lines drawn by a federal judge (after the legislature failed to agree on a proposal for them), saying the map won't help the chances of electing more minority members of Congress.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio and leaders of the embattled New York City Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing system.

Elia has pledged to be laser - focused on struggling schools during the first year of her tenure, and almost immediately introduced the idea of state receivership for schools around the state that fail to improve over the next year or, in some cases, two years.

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

Under the guise of promoting renewable energy, Cuomo is attempting an end run around the legislature to impose a rate hike on state utility consumers in order to bail out four failing nuclear plants in the state, all of which are coincidently owned by the same corporation.

Up to now, the federal government has failed to support the research needed to prepare for the health consequences of hotter weather, according to a March 2009 report in Environmental Health Perspectives, by Balbus and colleagues around the United States.

What these detractors overlook is ongoing work with the California State Board of Education to create a regulatory framework around the parent trigger process that removes unwarranted barriers and codifies the legal steps leading to the successful transformation of a failing school.

Under a state plan to turn around James Lick High School, a persistently failing school in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical education,...

In recent years, there have been a series of state - and district - led initiatives to turn around failing schools.

The report stated: «We appear to have succeeded in making many people comfortable with using the technology that we find around us, but this seems to have been at the expense of failing to provide a deeper understanding of the rigorous academic subject of computer science.»

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

Education - reform experts say «external providers» can play an important role in turning around failing schools, and that viewing schools with an outside, higher - level lens can lead to more radical reconstruction, but they are disturbed that neither the federal government nor the majority of states keep track of this spending.

The truth is that there have been a slew of scandals around a number of charter schools largely concentrated in states that, in their haste to enact market - based reforms, did not promote strong charter oversight and failed to keep foxes out of the proximity of chickens.

As states and districts look to turn around their own failing schools, creating an RSD - like vehicle would give them a powerful way to free a troubled school from the shackles of the status quo.

around the ability of states to successfully identify schools that are failing to meet students» needs, particularly the needs of low income students, students of color, and students with learning disabilities.

There's some concern around the ability of states to successfully identify schools that are failing to meet students» needs, particularly the needs of low income students, students of color, and students with learning disabilities.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

There are real doubts and questions regarding a return to elected, local control, and they have remained since before the great breaches in the levees: how can a traditional district turn around failing schools and what are the limits of state intervention?

I think that so much of the discussion around tenure in K12 is linked to a widespread idea that the state has a monopoly over public schools and has yielded a bureaucracy that has failed schools, etc..

But she failed to note that the top Hartford students, who were the top before Sheff, are now the ones in these choice / charter / magnet schools, so all the State of Connecticut is shamelessly doing is moving some students around, spending money on a small number of schools, and only integrating if wealthy and non-integrated suburban students can benefit.

Marshall Tuck is the only candidate for State Superintendent with a proven record of increasing graduation rates, improving student achievement, and turning around failing schools.

States and districts need to step up and have the political courage to close failing schools and let others try,» proclaimed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (2009), announcing a $ 3.5 billion federal investment to turn around the 5,000 worst - performing schools in the country.

Kane founded the local LEAD charter chain, which later declared war on MNPS when it sidled up to the failing state - run Achievement School District, which engineered a hostile state takeover of Nashville's Neely's Bend Middle School — a school that already was turning around.

As I stated in my previous post on State of the Unions [21]: «As long as the anti-union message revolves around the symbol of children's rights, union supporters are destined to fail.

You're creeping around in a really cool haunted space house when an invulnerable instant - fail state lunges out at you, or it passes a doorway in front of you and you have to hide or actually does just spin around and see you.

Perhaps if Anthem fails, Bioware will get a proper burial, instead of being kept around in this undead state.

After Playdead's previous title Limbo failed to take home any of its four nominations back in 2011 the Danish developers were far happier this time around, stating: «After we were nominated for four awards back in 2011 and we didn't get any, we've had an insatiable thirst for these awards so thank you for keeping us hungry».

«State of Mind» will appeal to those in the know before it appeals to the general public — Tom Marioni's Process Print (1969) failed to capture the attention of the dozens of school kids running around the day I visited, as did Chris Burden's video piece, Documentation of Selected Works (1971 - 74), in which Burden talks about most of his iconic performance pieces (Bed, Shoot).