Sentences with phrase «other failing school districts»

JPS as a whole is rated «F.» Like the 18 other failing school districts in the state, it serves mostly black students.

Not exact matches

Other expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure repoOther expenses include a few thousand on school supplies, which he handed out in his district a few weeks ago, $ 14,000 in contributions to other political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure repoother political campaigns, and $ 3,243 to the State Board of Elections for violation fees (Espada has a history of failing to file his campaign disclosure reports.)

I know I and the people in my neighborhood and all the others like us across the country are all part of the problem, but we can't help make these kinds of failing school district better by sending our children to them even if we wanted to, because we'd have to risk our children's futures to do it.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

The investigation by the school district's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) found that Moten and other faculty members «knew of the practice, allowed it to go on for a time, and failed to report it.»

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

We are failing to leverage the immense knowledge of our content experts in schools, districts and state initiatives, and at the same time, failing to continuously develop those content experts so they may move into meaningful leadership roles in which they expand the scope of their impact by supporting and developing others.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

Many districts simply fail to define their theories of reform - in some cases because superintendents and school - board members can not agree on what should be done; in other cases because officials don't wish to make specific promises about actions and results.

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

Dade County officials said the new plan unveiled by Superintendent of Schools Joseph Fernandez is patterned after the academic - bankruptcy laws in New Jersey and five other states that allow the state education agency to assume control over failing school districts.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

Others offer interdistrict choice, such as the controversial busing plan currently under debate in St. Louis, which allows students to attend schools in neighboring districts to alleviate segregation concerns or to offer students an escape hatch from failing schools.

In order to penalize students who intentionally fail to return borrowed textbooks and other school property, the California Assembly recently passed a bill allowing school districts to withhold students» grades, diplomas, or transcripts until they pay for the property.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

Should charters be held to enrollment standards that other schools can not meet, while districts continue to practice questionable policies such as the warehousing of special need students in select placements (while often failing to follow - though on their obligations for services, we might add)?

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.

Records show such policies have failed to curtail other campus violence and its effects now on the rise in district schools — including fighting, weapons use, bullying and related suicides.

Given the small share of total education spending Gates could offer, most public districts refused to entertain the Gates strategy of smaller schools, others took the money but failed to implement it properly, and others reversef the reform once the Gates subsidies ended.

«We believe money is not the answer,» said Sen. Brown, explaining instead that districts must identify other ways to deal with factors that contribute to poor performance at failing schools.

As the nation's fourth - largest school district, it is also trying to succeed where others have failed.

Modeled after failed attempts in other cities to create «Recovery» districts, the Takeover plan gives Means the authority to strip control of our schools from the publicly elected School Board.

«Right now, Bridgeport ranks 163 out of 165 school districts in Connecticut, with more students trapped in failing schools than in any other city in the state, according to the State Department of Education.

In response, Jennifer Alexander, the acting chief executive officer for the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now (ConnCAN), made the following statement: «Right now, Bridgeport ranks 163 out of 165 school districts in Connecticut, with more students trapped in failing schools than in any other city in the state, according to the State Department of Education.

SAUSD has more failing schools — and a higher percentage of failing schools — than any other Orange County district.

Perhaps It's Time to Abandon the Union: Last week's Three Thoughts noted George W. Bush Center scholar Jay P. Greene's conclusion that school reformers would be better off starting their own institutions in order to successfully spur school reform, and force traditional districts and other players to abandoned failed practices.

Although a few charters have failed to measure up, both districts are bracing for more of the schools to open in the coming school year, and others with long waiting lists are planning to expand.

In the case of Options Charter School in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpSchool in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpschool board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpschool accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpayers.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

«Charter schools can and must be part of a larger statewide solution to improving persistently failing schools in Buffalo and other districts.

Tens of thousands of students live in what Jitu Brown has described as «school deserts,» because their districts have been devastated by failed policies such as mass school closures, the proliferation of charter schools, and other privatization schemes.

He added that other urban districts around the country have made strides in assuring that teachers from one failing school do not end up in another failing school.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

The Improving America's Schools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA — cemented accountability as a strictly academic notion.4 The No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB — the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA — strengthened this premise and required districts and schools that failed to make academic progress to take specific improvement actions.5 NCLB also required states to hold schools accountable for an academic indicator other than student achievement in reading anSchools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA — cemented accountability as a strictly academic notion.4 The No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB — the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA — strengthened this premise and required districts and schools that failed to make academic progress to take specific improvement actions.5 NCLB also required states to hold schools accountable for an academic indicator other than student achievement in reading anschools that failed to make academic progress to take specific improvement actions.5 NCLB also required states to hold schools accountable for an academic indicator other than student achievement in reading anschools accountable for an academic indicator other than student achievement in reading and math.

Texas has been under intense pressure from school district leaders and others to apply for a waiver, especially since it was announced on Aug. 8, 2012, that the number of Texas campuses that failed to meet AYP in 2012 doubled from the number that failed in 2011, to more than 4,000 campuses.

John Deasy, the soon to be failed superintendent of Los Angeles Unified Schools and five other school district superintendents made a legally questionable side deal bypassing state officials.

And for the past year, Governor Charlie Baker has failed to gain legislative approval to create «innovation zones» in which a select group of schools within a district would gain charter - school - like flexibility to extend school days and get around other teacher contract provisions.

Other school districts have falsely informed high school juniors that they would not be able to graduate if they failed to take or were opted out of the Common Core SBAC test.

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.

Many of these charter schools operate in communities where the only other option is a failing district.

For a truly scary scenario, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece last week which asserts that New York State education officials «are preparing new guidelines to impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to meet state standards.»

States and districts across the country have begun expanding the list of mandated reporters — those who can be penalized under the law for knowingly failing to report the abuse or neglect of a child — to include teachers and other employees of school campuses.

Speaking for many other survey respondents, one remarked, «We continue to lose supervisors in school districts because [school districts] fail to understand the relationship that a good library program supports academic achievement.»

Conversely, the chances of an employer unintentionally violating the Human Rights Code are high and the potential liability can be significant, as was most recently evident to an employer that was ordered to pay an employee, among other things, approximately 9 years or $ 500,000 in lost wages and $ 30,000 in general damages for failing to accommodate her return from a disability leave: Fair v. Hamilton - Wentworth District School Board 2013 HRTO 440.

This school is being punished by the school district because OTHER school are failing API language score Wilson is being forced to spend a mandatory 2 hour period in the morning doing low level language arts lessons which are far below grade level.