Sentences with phrase «public school closings»

He and his staff did a little internet research to identify the lowest - performing public school closest to their church.

The fight against public school closings has become the new civil rights battle in this country — and rightfully so.

«The vast majority of public schools closed by RSD in the past five years were in poor and working class, African - American neighborhoods,» the complaint says.

So severe was the storm that even the New York City public schools closed for the first time since 1978.

One year after Chicago Public Schools closed 50 schools, parents still prefer their children's old schools, which the city treated as «portfolio liabilities» rather than as stabilizing institutions, according to a new report by an educational policy researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

With public schools closing for the summer, many states are reviewing their 2015 - 2016 testing experience (once again, not a pretty picture) and planning to implement assessment reforms in coming years.

In Chicago, the 5 - year moratorium on public school closings which began 2013 is about to expire and the mayor is talking about shuttering 50 more.

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

The plaintiff alleges that CTRCSD was started only to prevent children from being bussed to a nearby town because Theodore Public School closed.

Virginia lawmakers believed they were making history in June by approving $ 1 million in scholarships for African - Americans who had suffered gaps in their education decades ago when their local public schools closed rather than enroll blacks.

When a neighborhood - based public school closes, children must travel farther away, increasing commute times and complicating logistics.

Like most sequels, the current round of D.C. Public Schools closings is a lot less dramatic than the first wave presided over by former Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee four years ago.

«However, charter public schools close all the time due to academic or financial mismanagement,» Spalding said.

If we don't continue to have real conversations about the state of education, we'll see more public schools closed and utilized for detention centers and jails.

Most of the 130 Detroit public schools closed since 2005 were cited for having low test scores.

The Times - Picayune New Orleans public schools closed Tuesday ahead of rain expected from Harvey

While it is unlikely that these materials came from one of the fifty underperforming public schools closed in 2012 by Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the associations with this critical moment in the city's history are plain and powerful.

The numbers of public school closings and new charter schools soared, while the high school student assignment system was overhauled to be driven by choice.

To accommodate residents, the hearing will take place in the evening at a public school close to Knickerbocker Village, he said.

A brisk six - block walk from the Department of Education headquarters, Amidon has unique status as the public school closest to the federal education chief's office.

The pace of public school closings has been increasing during the past decade, driven largely by dwindling enrollments in urban districts hit hard by budget pressures and competition from public charter schools.

Malkus» argument is that racial isolation in charter schools — and his own research has shown that charters are not only more segregated than public schools as a whole, but also more segregated than the public schools closest to them — is a «byproduct» of their mission, not the purpose.

In reality, a public school closes when parents stop sending their kids there because it doesn't live up to its mission, which is to educate students in a safe environment.

When public schools close and charters open, teachers unions become weaker.

Under Chancellor Joel Klein, the numbers of public school closings and new charter schools soared, while the high school student assignment system was overhauled to be driven by choice.

OAKLAND — A new study on teacher pay puts this city's public schools close to the bottom of the 125 largest school districts nationwide when you consider each city's cost of living.