Sentences with phrase «of recovery schools»

Lawmakers approved the return of recovery schools to the OPSB earlier this summer.

The local school board fought to regain oversight of the recovery charters — actually making a legal bid to attempt to regain control of recovery schools no longer considered failing.

Louisiana state Superintendent of Education Paul G. Pastorek announced on May 4 that Mr. Vallas had agreed to serve as the superintendent of the Recovery School District.

Leaders of the Recovery School District in New Orleans are crafting an overhaul of high schools that would offer career - oriented magnet programs at each campus, along with a districtwide college - preparatory curriculum of honors and Advanced Placement courses.

Most Orleans Parish schools are charters under the direction of the Recovery School District, and those students are not adequately captured in currently available Orleans Parish data.

In the case of the Recovery School District in Louisiana, there was a period of strong gains in state test scores to buttress this belief.

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into charters under state oversight.

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school choice.

That created the opportunity of the Recovery School District.

As debate continues over an education reform model for Nashville's public schools, two local groups have teamed up to offer an event that will highlight the reform experience of the Recovery School District in New Orleans.

So the creation of the Recovery School District took an already deeply troubled system and cleaved off the worst - performing schools.

The superintendent of the Recovery School District, Dobard is also an alumni of the school.

Perhaps the biggest would be the creation of a Recovery School District.

Last week, the former superintendent of the Recovery School District of Louisiana, Paul Vallas, touted its unmitigated success in T he Atlanta Journal Constitution Get Schooled blog.

At the behest of Recovery School District officials, Einstein is taking over Intercultural Charter School, an F - rated school currently serving 425 students.

Most are part of the Recovery School District, which took over low - performing schools and encompasses most of the schools in New Orleans.

All four schools are part of the Recovery School District.

California leaders, however, have failed to follow that leadership and enact a Golden State version of the Recovery School District to rescue thousands of California schools figuratively underwater.

Stung by the pain of a broken promise, members of the James Weldon Johnson Elementary School community did their utmost Wednesday night to convince the new chief of the Recovery School District to resurrect a plan to move their campus to a safer, more prestigious site a few blocks away.

White is headed to New Orleans, where he'll succeed the departing Paul Vallas as head of the Recovery School District.

Or, it wouldn't be surprising if you thought Louisiana's first charter schools came on the scene with creation of the Recovery School District in 2003, when the Legislature granted -LSB-...]

Leaders of the Recovery School District organized the meetings, originally invitation - only, as that state agency decides which groups will land space in the seven schools RSD runs in north Baton Rouge.

The superintendent of Recovery School District in New Orleans said he's inclined to help districts when he can.

Leslie Jacobs, one of the architects of the Recovery School District, found Lewis» promise of better management compelling.

Part of that shortfall, Kleban said, was that College Prep had increased its incoming class size at the request of the Recovery School District, which was expecting a surge in ninth graders that did not materialize.

The city's figure did not include several schools that are under state oversight but are not part of the Recovery School District.

Part of the Recovery School District's promises include a decision on the permanent home for every school program by the end of December, and representatives of several schools sought specifics from White on that point.

A new survey by the Council for a Better Louisiana shows that, by a wide margin, New Orleanians would prefer to keep public schools under the umbrella of the Recovery School District rather than return them to the control of the Orleans Parish School Board...

Meanwhile, another research group, The Cowen Institute of Tulane University, which has traditionally been a major supporter of charter schools, reported that 66 % of the Recovery School District Charter Schools rated D or F.

Not exact matches

Thousands of Puerto Ricans are marching to protest pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts as anger grows across the U.S. territory over looming austerity measures.

Our team is now stepping in to help with one of the island's greatest recovery needs — getting children back to school by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary Sschool by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary SchoolSchool.

«Expect a burden of mental health problems, which will include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and it's particularly going to impact groups who don't have access to rapid opportunities for recovery,» Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Vox after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

After both earthquake and hurricane destruction in Haiti, Sandals Foundation supported various partners including: Population Services with 205,000 Aqua Tabs; Global Orphan with clothing; the Salesian Missions with recovery kits for 400 families; and All Hands Volunteers with the recovery of six schools and health clinics.

You'd think that I'd focus on Dianah explaining how the pain of her dislocated hip threatened to keep her out of school until the ministry of Africa New Life found her a surgeon, a new hip, a community nurse named Rebecca who oversees her recovery and physical therapy plan, all of her school fees and complete support to keep her in high school full time.

Third, in both classical schooling and higher education, a self - conscious recovery of a biblical and philosophical understanding of created nature and the practical and spiritual relationship to it that fosters the human good must have a place in the curriculum.

In the midst of back - to - school shopping, disaster recovery, or whatever challenges are headed your way this week, I hope you find a little being time too.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

In the recovery of the true capacity of reasoning for both moral and religious insight and of course in the witness of lives well lived, the evidence of schools well run.»

Vi's baby had died when only eight months old; Anne, who was about to return to school for her longed - for masters, had just been told that she had multiple sclerosis; Mary's grown son was institutionalized for a severe mental disorder, with no realistic hope of recovery.

The Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School (FLPC) is hosting a one - day workshop to bring together a group of food recovery entrepreneurs from across the world to network and learn from one another and from experts.

Presented at the 2014 Consumer Issues Conference (University of Wyoming) by Prof. Nicole Civita, Director of the Food Recovery Project at the University of Arkansas School of Law

The motto of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, is certainly an apt description of what the students involved in the school's Food Recovery Network chapter do every day.

During the Spring 2012 semester, the second FRN chapter was founded at Brown University, and the two schools joined forces with two other campus food recovery programs at University of California, Berkeley and Pomona College.

Despite rushing for a school record and Sac - Joaquin Section - best 2,884 yards and 43 touchdowns — and adding seven more scores by way of reception, interception return, fumble recovery, and punt return — the Thundering Herd senior is not considering multiple D - I offers.

A sad day when Spurs sold him in the deal for Martin Peters I was in such a bad state of shock it made me ill and I had to have a week off school and that's true not a joke.Jimmy was the greatest player I ever had the pleasure to watch, he would be priceless today, the nearest player I have seen that gets anywhere near him is Messy but of course he's playing in a soft erea of football with all the protection you could dream of from the referees, and of course never wil play ion England.Anyway I wish my hero Jimmy Greaves a good recovery.

Find out exactly how the school and teachers handle the recovery period of a concussion and make sure that you let the school know when symptoms increase.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

A large portion of schools throughout the state use a computerized testing system - ImPACT - to set a baseline for concussion recovery.

Incidence, clinical course, and predictors of prolonged recovery time following sportrelated concussion in high school and college athletes.