Sentences with phrase «out of failing schools»

But what of the family trying to move their child out of a failing school?

«They took good students out of failing schools and sent them to a magnet school, thereby leaving the failing schools failing even more,» he said.

The school choice program created five years ago to help low - income students get out of failing schools now looks dramatically different.

Each time students are shifted out of failing schools the district sends them to other low performing schools.

These results convinced me that I need to transfer my son and daughter out of this failing school.

And they found that many families did pull their children out of failing schools.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Amrein and Berliner identified 28 states where test scores are used to determine various consequences, such as bonuses for teachers, the promotion of students, or allowing children to transfer out of a failing school.

The war between teachers unions and parents wanting to have their kids opt out of failing schools is in full swing and intensifying.

These Opportunity Scholarships provide poor kids — almost all black and Latino — with a lifeline out of failing schools.

Bright Tribe Trust has backed out of a failing school in Northumberland that it was supposed to convert into an academy over a year ago.

By affirming the right to transfer students out of failing school districts, the State Supreme Court opened the doors for hundreds of families to cross the lines and move their children into better schools.

David Cameron defended his education secretary on television this morning, insisting he was happy with the government's record of getting more highly qualified teachers into schools and taking 250,000 children out of failing schools.

Somebody who is not well off and whose child is in a failing school, why shouldn't those parents have the same options to get the kid out of the failing school and into one that works with the help of the state?

Ms. Anderson had argued that One Newark would offer more parents the opportunity to opt out of failing schools, and that by improving the smaller number of public schools that remained, it would ultimately help retain the families that might otherwise leave the district for charter schools.

Five years ago, the General Assembly created a school choice program to help low - income students get out of failing schools.

The No Child Left Behind Act granted children the right to transfer out of failing schools.

In state after state, when legislators introduce proposals aimed at moving students out of failing schools, activists emerge to delay, block, or sabotage the plans.

During the 2002 - 03 school year, under the new law's choice provisions, almost 4,700 students were entitled to transfer out of their failing schools and into one of the district's higher - performing schools.

For the past 25 years, charters were largely promoted to help students out of failing schools, but increasingly some advocates believe all public school students should have an opportunity to enroll in a charter.

The war between teacher union leaders who insist on a one - size - fits - all cookie cutter education system run by them, and parents who want to get their kids out of failing schools and into charters rages on.

They want to use charter schools and vouchers and scholarship tax credits to get their children out of failing schools and into better ones.

Post the grades online and give parents the option of transferring their kids out of failing schools or converting them to charter schools.

Sanctions built into No Child Left Behind require states to pay for tutoring services and transportation to another school when families decide to transfer their children out of failing schools.