Sentences with phrase «over failing school districts»

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.

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The revised plan, which would be included in the state budget, would also give districts more time to turn around what Cuomo calls «failing» schools or districts before a state - appointed «receiver» could seize broad authority over them.

As the Buffalo Public School District works to improve its failing schools debate is growing over the strength of charter schools.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

Perez rallied with local parents in June to protest State Sen. Marisol Alcantara, after the state failed to fork over $ 55 million owed to District 6 schools.

«The governor plans for major interventions for the City of Buffalo school district as well as the school districts that are failing all over the state,» said Hochul during a recent appearance in downtown Buffalo.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

Meanwhile you appeared in your own ads on television outfitted in sartorial splendor, perfectly coiffed, while seemingly inferring to the parents of East Ramapo that the best solution to their problem is to have a teacher like you, or perhaps your girlfriend, take over what the East Ramapo School District is increasingly failing to do.

One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

Several hundred students in the Lancaster Independent School District in Texas learned a tough lesson this month, when they were suspended for failing to complete assigned homework over the winter break.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

Just weeks after the storm, officials turned the city's failing schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

Recovery, Achievement, Opportunity, Transformation: these are the titles and aspirations of statewide «turnaround» school districts whose mission is to take over failing public schools and move them quickly to an acceptable range of performance.

In Vallas's view, district intervention was necessary in schools where principals and teachers by themselves failed to improve student performance over a number of years.

Of course the genesis for all these solutions is the argument that the US public school system, the entire system of over 13,000 school districts and approximately 50 million students, is failing and causing students to become less globally competitive.

In some districts with «failing» schools, administrators are fretting over how to satisfy federal requirements.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

The plan also suggests that, to accomplish swift and deep reform akin to The Mind Trust's outlined plan, the Indiana General Assembly might want to consider passing a law that enables the state to take over «failing» districts much like it now has the authority to replace the leadership at «failing» schools.

For state leaders, dashboard performance determines which low - performing schools and districts need assistance and, if they fail to improve over the next four years, stronger intervention.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie is angry, claiming that 27 failing school districts across the state continue to under - perform despite receiving over $ 100 billion in funding since 1985.

Districts can also be taken over if they are rated as failing by the state for two consecutive school years or if there is a pattern of ``

Districts can also be taken over if they are rated as failing by the state for two consecutive school years or if there is a pattern of «poor student performance.»

In fact, some states, like Tennessee and Louisiana, are putting failing schools in a separate statewide district and handing them over to charter school operators or outside organizations.

Parent Revolution, a nonprofit group that helps parents organize and take over a failing campus, said that some of the district's arguments were similar to arguments made by Anaheim's school district in rebuffing a similar parent trigger, but those were rejected by a judge last summer.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

The chamber's top education budget writer, Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr., said the legislation could ultimately create a scenario where a district is able to turn a failing school into a charter but maintain control over it rather than turning it over a private operator.

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Most school districts in Washington State will likely have less control over how they spend money during the next academic year, and those that were already under sanction for failing to make progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law will face more severe consequences.

After camping out overnight in frigid rain in front of the Chicago Public Schools central office, people furious about the district's years of failed, top - down school interventions took over the Board of Education meeting.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

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The results for Virginia's children will be the same old junk all over, with districts such as Fairfax County inflating their not - so - well - deserved reputations for providing high - quality education while failing to do anything for the children who attend their schools or for the families whose taxes sustain them.

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But there is a continuing debate over which of the two entities should provide broad oversight to the autonomous charters — the state - run Recovery School District or the Orleans Parish School Board, which had to surrender oversight of the failing schools.

The state's new plans for that district, created through House Bill 70 over the summer, has been controversial and the center of a legal challenge — a challenge that failed — over the state taking control of the district from voters and the elected school board.

After Los Angeles Unified School District board members approved a Parent Trigger earlier this week, mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel refused to comment on the historic vote, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing elementary school in West School District board members approved a Parent Trigger earlier this week, mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel refused to comment on the historic vote, which allows parents to take over a chronically failing elementary school in West school in West Adams.

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This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

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In 2013, Einstein took over a failing Recovery School District charter, Intercultural Charter School.

LA Unified has rejected a parent petition to take over a failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, reversing district policy and essentially asserting that no California school qualifies under the state «parent trigger» law.

Louisiana created the state - run Recovery School District to take over failing schools shortly before Katrina.