Sentences with phrase «of low test scores»

Now schools labeled as «failing» because of low test scores may become charter schools, in which they could be taken over by business people in an effort to improve test scores.

Which leads to the assumption that the cause of low test scores is poverty.

However, the school districts with a history of low test scores teach exclusively to the Common Core tests because so much rides on raising those scores and not being identified as failing schools.

The consequences of low test scores is too great a threat.

Schools with a history of low test scores spend concentrated time on test prep; schools with traditionally high test scores do not spend time on test prep.

State - led takeovers of five schools with a history of low test scores in Indianapolis and Gary helped define Tony Bennett «s four years as state superintendent.

The issue was personal: In 2010, Cochran's years of low test scores resulted in placement on the district's list of campuses eligible for takeover by charter schools or other groups with a credible improvement plan.

Local educators did not mourn the death of CAP, since many local schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test scores.

Many people believe part of the low test score issue is that kids can't learn if they aren't there and anecdotal evidence is reporting massive truancy.

The GOP candidates for mayor focused on the state of the city's schools in the wake of low test scores.

The film, which included interviews with Michelle Rhee, Bill Gates, and the economist Eric Hanushek, among others, made the central points that public education was failing, that resources don't matter, and that the best ways to fix the national crisis of low test scores were to expand the number of privately managed charters, fire ineffective teachers, and weaken the unions that protected them.

Under the microscope of increased accountability, a growing number of U.S. schools have been identified as underperforming on the basis of their low test scores.

Tired of low test scores, (at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, a Mojave Desert town in eastern California) some parents organized and got more than 50 percent of the parents at the school to sign a «Parent Trigger» petition, which would give them the right to choose a different type of school governance.

The Okolona Separate School District, about 20 miles south of Tupelo, was under state control from 2010 - 12 after years of low test scores and numerous accreditation violations.

And with its explicit threat to declare low - performing schools as «failing,» the law infected state - level lawmakers, prosecutors, and judges with a zeal to eradicate the perceived causes of low test scores — with truancy seen as among the worst.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

The Syracuse schools in the I - Zone have some of the lowest test scores in the state and are on the city's west side.

Commissioner King was asked on the teleconference call whether he thought the second year of low test scores would further fuel the backlash against Common Core.

In 2011, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education declared Lawrence a «chronically underperforming district,» citing years of low test scores and graduation rates.

For one thing, since 2003, it's been designated a High Priority / Program Improvement School by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) because of low test scores — only about 10 percent of roughly 2,000 kids are testing at proficient levels or above on federally mandated No Child Left Behind tests.

Six straight years of low test scores — scores which rank among Indiana's worst — have put the school at risk of state intervention or takeover.

Ramirez is a leader of the Desert Trails Parent Union that ran the parent trigger campaign to turn the Adelanto School District's school over to a charter operator after years of low test scores and parent complaints.

It could also improve the quality of teachers in Mississippi, and the academic performance of students in a state that consistently posts some of the lowest test scores in the nation.

Some contend that Mississippi's elected officials are out of touch with what's actually happening in classrooms in a state that consistently posts some of the lowest test scores in the U.S.

Gupta hopes to do the same in Mississippi, where no charters yet exist and where students post some of the lowest test scores in the U.S..

Under ESSA, schools and teachers can no longer be considered failing just because of low test scores.

For much of the past decade and a half, many schools were unfairly labeled as «failing» because of low tests scores — and suffered the brunt of well - meaning but blunt interventions.

The state has ordered a takeover of the Roosevelt Technical and Career Academy because of low test scores.

In 2006, many students in the six local high schools in Alamance County, North Carolina, were struggling academically and one high school was threatened with closure because of low test scores.