Sentences with phrase «on school closures»

Major decisions are expected in the coming months, and board members carry a vote on school closures that affect the lives of students, parents and district staff.

Our first campaigns focused on keeping budget cuts as far away from students and classrooms as possible and pushing back on school closure plans focused only on school size and without any community engagement.

This man's organization wrote the book on school closures — really!

The UFT has also called for an immediate moratorium on school closures until the end of Mayor Bloomberg's term in office.

In contrast, suburban West Hartford Public Schools does not appear to have a policy on school closure in their policy collection.

In the event of severe weather, such as hurricanes, MYcroSchool Jacksonville follows the Duval County Public Schools» policies on school closures.

(We have a study coming out on school closure effects later in the spring.)

A new report by Public Impact's Daniela Doyle and Tim Field, The Role of Charter Restarts in School Reform: Honoring our Commitments to Students and Public Accountability explores a variation on school closure in which a charter school's operator and board change, while the school continues to serve the same students.

The City must drop its insistence on school closures so that we can move forward once and for all.

At a subsequent panel on education, Liu slammed Mayor Michael Bloomberg's record on school closures and called for an end to the practice of allowing charter schools to take over space in traditional public schools.

For instance, none of our wonks focused overly much on school closure as a strategy toward greatness; most seem to see it as a way to raise the floor.

Marcotte and Steven Hemelt (2008) collected data on school closures from all but one school district in Maryland to estimate the impact on achievement.

A Pew Foundation report on school closures found that «academic studies suggest that student achievement often falls during the final months of a closing school's existence.»

But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from New York to Oakland, Calif., converged on Washington Tuesday to tell U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan he's getting it backwards on school closures.

A policy brief and technical report by Whitney Bross, Douglas N. Harris, and Lihan Liu on School Closures and Charter Takeovers

While there have been reports in the local media of plans to shutter dozens of schools, Mayor Emanuel is not talking specifics on school closures.

The Alliance is working on a school closure policy that considers community schools as an alternative method to supporting and improving struggling schools rather than shutting them down.

Judith Browne Dianis (Advancement Project) speaks at the forum on school closures.

The district's critics are focused not only on the school closures, but also on budget cuts, a profusion of standardized tests, large class sizes, and a governance system that includes a mayor - selected school board rather than an elected one.

Once the closing study is complete, it is delivered to the Board of Education and there are two public hearings on the school closure proposal, one at the school and one at the Board of Education.

This paper contributes to the nascent literature on school closures by evaluating student achievement and mobility outcomes in a large - scale restructuring effort in Washington, D.C. in which 32 elementary and middle school campuses were closed or consolidated in the summer of 2008.

City Comptroller John Liu vowed to put a moratorium on school closures and also promised to end the policy of co-locating charter and traditional public schools in the same buildings, which he said has been disruptive at many schools.

Quinn, a close ally of the mayor, stood out this week as the only major Democratic contender who did not joint the teachers union on the steps of City Hall to call for a moratorium on school closures and co-locations.

This is the second of three pieces to show how this conceptual friction actually rears its head in the real policy world — the first was on school closures, the third will be on ESEA reauthorization and NCLB waivers.

The protest goal is a moratorium on school closures, phaseouts and turnarounds.

The HBOE Policy 3600 on school closure was last updated in 2004.

The group also demanded a moratorium on new charter schools, on school closures and on out - of - school suspensions, which they link to the school - to - prison pipeline.