Sentences with phrase «overhaul failing district»

The head of Parent Revolution said today that LA Unified has reversed course, lifting the ban on using the «Parent Trigger» law this year to overhaul failing district schools.

Not exact matches

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.

But is the law compelling states and districts to fundamentally overhaul chronically 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.

Because in illustrating how Anderson as well as allies such as former Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg failed to fully engage and empower families and communities in overhauling the district, Russakoff points out the failures of the movement to build strong grassroots ties that are needed to sustain reforms for the long haul.

Snyder can point to the lawsuit filed earlier this year by the American Civil Liberties Union's state branch against the Highland Park district (and the state) for educationally failing the children in its care as one example of why the state must overhaul school funding and expand choice.

«So long as districts continue to ignore the crushing reality of the looming financial crisis at the hands of unfunded retiree liabilities, and so long as the Legislature fails to fundamentally overhaul the authorizing structure in California, we anticipate that powerful special interests will continue to use charter public schools as a red herring to avoid the hard decisions that lie ahead,» continued Marquez.