Sentences with phrase «persistently failing one»

The IPCC makes it impossible for anyone to try to statistically validate them by persistently failing to identify the statistical population that would be sampled in making this attempt.

Reflecting similar moves elsewhere, a persistently failing high school in Oregon is investing a record amount in additional training for teachers.

by Joe Shahen At the end of June, the Times Union in Albany took a look at the state of the city's middle schools, specifically the persistently failing Hackett Middle...

«But years of research have pointed the way toward hiring the school leaders most equipped to take on all the challenges of a persistently failing school.

wants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

• National charter school chains or other educational organizations charged with running persistently failing public schools

But Gov. Andrew Cuomowants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

Florida has more than 100 schools that it labels persistently failing.

Let's all agree that there needs to be a moratorium on persistently failing and underperforming schools.

• Community schools: The proposal provides $ 100 million to implement community school initiatives such as health services and summer learning opportunities in districts with schools identified by the state as «failing» or «persistently failing» as well as in some targeted high - need districts.

Financially strapped parents — like both sets of my grandparents — who saw education as the North Star to liberation scraped together meager earnings to send their children to private school, even while paying taxes for a persistently failing neighborhood school.

All three schools are on lists of persistently failing schools or have graduation rates of less than 60 %, a hallmark of a struggling school.

If we do nothing to alleviate family poverty, especially in our hardest hit communities, our quest to fix persistently failing schools will continue to fall flat.

The grants were part of the U.S. Department of Education's $ 1.4 billion fund to deal with the nation's persistently failing schools.

The proposal provides $ 100 million to implement community school initiatives such as health services and summer learning opportunities in districts with schools identified by the state as «failing» or «persistently failing» as well as in some targeted high - need districts.

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

But, at the same time, I can't help but think about the kids on my block, my fellow students in Newark's South Ward, who weren't afforded that very same opportunity - and the injustice that many of them faced being trapped in a persistently failing educational system with no way out.

Today in the Daily Beast former NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Louisiana Superintendent John White make the «urgent moral» case that «the most appropriate response to dramatic failure» for persistently failing schools» is «dramatic intervention.»

For instance from its Statement of Principles, the explicitly party - based organization Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) claims change is needed because «particularly low - income and children of color — are trapped in persistently failing schools.»

Passed in 2010, the California law enables parents whose children attend a persistently failing school to «trigger» reforms, including replacing staff or turning the school into a charter, by presenting their school district with a petition containing at least 51 percent of their signatures.

Superintendent John White makes the case in The Daily Beast (with Joel Klein) for dramatic intervention — replacing persistently failing schools.

In Louisiana, the state can shut down persistently failing programs, although none has reached that point.

The Daily Beast: The Urgent Moral Case for Replacing Persistently Failing Schools http://thebea.st/2eqTr6y

Let's all agree that there needs to be a moratorium on persistently failing and under - performing schools.

He demanded that there be a significant number of turnaround schools - calling for 10 % of their persistently failing schools to be turned over to the community.

It allows parents of children in persistently failing schools to force dramatic change through petition drives.

Saying the enslaved were happy is akin to saying Black communities are happy sending their children to persistently failing schools.

of persistently failing schools across the city during his 12 years in office.

I immediately found a job teaching breathtakingly underprivileged students in a persistently failing elementary school in Prince George's County, Md..

Smarick's «urban school system of the future» would be structured to ensure that high - performing schools are continually replicated, new schools with a diverse array of program offerings are continually opened, persistently failing schools are closed, and family choice is maximized.

Under his leadership, BRICK was able to partner with the Newark Public School in Newark to transform Avon Avenue, a persistently failing school, now known as BRICK Avon Academy.

Like persistently failing public schools, community charter schools need equitable access to resources afforded to all public schools.

I believe that one of the best ways to disrupt persistently failing schools is to provide communities with more high performing options.

A Communications and Engagement Guide for School Leaders Tackling the Problem of Persistently Failing Schools.»

There are, in New York City alone, over 143,000 students legally zoned to historically and persistently failing schools.

The School District of Philadelphia awarded a contract to Scholar Academies to turnaround Kenderton and Douglass because they were persistently failing for generations, and needed a radical solution.

Approving Referendum 55 will allow local communities to convert persistently failing public schools into tuition - free, charter public schools.

live in our community, have turned around a school that was persistently failing kids and communities for decades.

However, the inability to find sponsors for some persistently failing schools is becoming a source of contention for the government.

«Certainly under this superintendent, Tony Bennett, I'm pretty sure that if the mayor wasn't stepping in with a persistently failing school, then he would step in to close or in some other way change that school.»

A decade ago, I became fixated on what I saw as the biggest problem in K — 12 education — that we continued to assign low - income inner - city kids to persistently failing schools.

Second, what evidence can Carey point to that federally - mandated interventions in persistently failing schools have amounted to anything?

We need to ensure that closure policies target persistently failing schools.

«Promoting principals, some of whom have overseen persistently failing schools themselves, does not come close to addressing the problem,» said Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY.

Thus, any hint of even experimenting with school choice has been vigorously attacked, a notable example being Florida's program of exit vouchers, which permitted students stuck in persistently failing schools to try to find some way to save themselves through an alternative school.

Roughly two - thirds of the adult population support replacing teachers and / or principals at persistently failing schools, and only one in ten opposes such options.

Might there be compelling civic or social reasons for keeping open persistently failing or unsafe inner - city schools?

The crowding, wrote Winerip in the first of a series of hard - hitting columns in September and October of that year, was caused by the «new students with challenging problems» whose parents took advantage of the No Child Left Behind law allowing them to transfer from a persistently failing school to one that was better.

John White and Joel Klein wrote in The Daily Beast on the benefits of carefully replacing persistently failing urban schools, and Jennifer Brown of The Denver Post showed how big promises and increased funding alone won't get the job done.

To provide students with better options in the future, authorizers need to close virtual charter schools that are persistently failing.