Sentences with phrase «of school closings»

It also opened four schools after two major rounds of school closings in seven years.

Technical schools are being hit especially hard by this year's round of school closings.

There's been a historic number of school closings across the country.

About 3,000 teachers and school - based staff have already been laid off this summer because of school closings and cuts to individual school budgets.

Less than 5 percent of those schools closed due to poor student achievement.

Because many of the schools closest to their house were underperforming, the family began looking throughout the city for alternatives.

Hundreds of schools closed in the second half of the 1960s, and new starts failed to make up the difference.

While most of these schools closed in the 1980s, it is surprising to note that the last federally supported residential school remained in operation until the late 1990s.

Parents will also be notified of school closing and delays via the One Call Now telephone alert system.

Each lesson shall be posted for each course that was scheduled to meet on the day of the school closing.

Indeed, the federal government has spent billions on charter development without basic forms of accountability, even for the causes and details of school closings.

They reduced the number of schools closed to 24; and three went charter.

Another one of their schools closed in 2013 thanks to governance and financial issues.

There is little research about the impact of school closings on student achievement, according to Barbara Gross of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a nonprofit educational research and policy group that has been giving technical help to the activists.

NCLB did not account for rapid progress in low - performing schools, lack of progress in high - performing schools or the effects of school closings on local communities.

Table: Mayor Bill de Blasio's Handling of School Closings During Winter Snowstorms (NYC Registered Adults)

The study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.»

This brings the total number of schools closed by the Archdiocese since 2011 to 60.

Because of his abysmal record of school closings and support of charter schools, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis had considered running against him but was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio tells the crowd that «warehousing is the byproduct of school closings,» leaving many children in limbo as their schools are being phased out.

The ATR pool — a reserve pool of teachers working as substitutes but without permanent assignments — was a personnel policy devised by the Bloomberg administration that was poorly designed and never effectively implemented, particularly after the pool expanded in the wake of school closings during the Bloomberg years.

«Through parents» extended narratives, the study tells the story of school closings from the point of view of parents whose children were affected,» Lipman said.

NPR's «Embedded»: Shutting Down A School On Point (WBUR), 6/13/16 There's been a historic number of school closings across the country.

On the question of school closings, for instance, Michele Cahill, a Carnegie Corporation education specialist who masterminded the small — high schools initiative for Klein, believes that the discussion lately «has gotten very stuck in issues of participation and decision making.»

«We don't have the mechanisms to affect a nationwide moratorium of school closings of any kind,» Briscoe said.

He anticipates using the system to notify parents of school closings, delays, or early dismissals due to bad weather.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is dangling billions of dollars in extra aid and the promise of universal prekindergarten in front of his state's public schools — along with the prospect of mandated performance contracts for districts, and the threat that local boards and superintendents could be ousted and hundreds of schools closed if they fail to improve.

As a result of school closings and student transfers, teachers, administrators, and parents in a set of receiving schools reported: a) lack of necessary resources, staff, and professional support; b) disruptive and demoralizing climate; c) negative effects on teaching and learning; d) problems with safety and discipline; e) schools were «set up for failure» due to a history of declining resources and lack of district support.

«It's too bad whoever was listening to my phone conversation didn't get it right and the Free Beacon would rather cover what people overhear on trains instead of what's happening on the ground in Puerto Rico in terms of the school closings and the all out assault on public education on the island.

Facebook and / or Twitter The district will also send out notice of school closings and delays via its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The study points out important facts about the fallout of school closings, such as how students of color and low - income students are disproportionately affected and how less than half of displaced students end up in better performing schools following school closure.

The sit - in, organized by KOCO (the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization) and a number of allied community groups, teachers, parent and religious leaders, promises to remain at City Hall until Emanuel rescinds the threat of school closings and turnarounds this school year.

Students shall submit completed lessons to the teachers assigning such lessons not later than two weeks after the date of school closing for which the «blizzard bag» lessons are assigned.

As a reminder, in cases of school closings due to inclement weather, Chavez Schools follow the DC Public Schools.

If this seems like an unrealistic vision, ask yourself if you'd rather invest in a wave of school closings and teacher firings — with the attendant trauma they inflict in the short run, and the dashed hopes for real, substantive change they generate in the long run.

You can find a list of schools closed by Corinthian on April 27, 2015 here.

Faced with the real possibility of their school closing, the art faculty gave in and submitted their proposals for revenue - based graduate, continuing education, and high - school summer courses.

MORE / CASCADE (Coalition Against School Closings and Displacement Everywhere) is fighting against the current round of school closings in NYC.

Following the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 that read, «Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,» many of the schools closed or were repurposed by churches and civic groups.

Among the subset of students for whom data are available, we find that transfers made possible by the school - choice program overwhelmingly improve integration in the public schools that students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities in which they are located.