Sentences with phrase «recovery district»

In January 2006, the state announced that it was seeking charter operators for the 38 Recovery District schools that were not too damaged to open in the 2006 — 07 school year.

The schools — 16 in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and eight from the Education Achievement Authority, a soon - to - be-dissolved state - run recovery district for struggling schools — had been identified for closure earlier this year by the Michigan School Reform Office because they've ranked in the bottom 5 percent academically for three straight years.

New Orleans Recovery District, which is held as a model for charters, scored a D in the most recent rankings.

He's keenly aware of the challenges in forging alternative educational options for kids — and in implementing recovery districts, particularly after having authored insightful reports for us on such efforts in Tennessee and Louisiana.

«In the last ten years, public education in New Orleans has seen unprecedented growth in student achievement and has served as a national model for state recovery districts and innovative practices such as centralized enrollment,» the RSD said in a statement posted on its website in August.

Milwaukee Public School Leaders are concerned about the possible impact a so called Recovery District could have

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

The state's recovery district, which got under way in 2006, has seen a boost in graduation rates.

The recovery district uses data to keep tabs on individual student's progress.

Louisiana is one of the first states to create a recovery district, but the state's plans involve more than that.

Louisiana's Recovery District is required by law to return schools to local control.

Second, unable to charter all the schools, the Recovery District opened non-charter schools of its own.

First, the state of Louisiana's Recovery District, which wanted to charter all the schools under its control, couldn't find enough competent charter - school operators.

Bold experiments in educational governance such as mayoral control of urban systems, «recovery districts,» and charter management organizations

Former Louisiana State Superintendent Paul Pastorek is advising leaders of several states in the planning stage on the dynamics of setting up recovery districts.

By our count, recovery districts have been pushed in at least seven states since 2011; few have seen the light of day.

For Paul Vallas to use Chicago, Philadelphia, and the Recovery District in New Orleans as examples of successful school reform is like Attila the Hun pointing to his invasion and sacking of Rome as urban enhancement.

The Recovery District eventually converted all of those schools into public charter schools.

As of this Spring, the Recovery district oversaw 22 traditional schools and 17 charters; the Orleans Parish system was responsible for five traditional schools and 12 charters.

The Recovery District controls most of the public schools that were part of the Orleans Parish system before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005.

Cities like New Orleans and Detroit have been subjected to similar «Recovery Districts» with catastrophic results, but the commonality that exists between those cities and Milwaukee is that these laws are constantly imposed on black and brown communities without input.

Officials anticipate 6,000 to 7,000 students will return to New Orleans schools this summer, and the Recovery district plans to open 12 to 15 traditional schools and eight charter schools to accommodate them.

Why should journalists have to spell out what it is that Vallas did to Chicago schools, and Philadelphia schools, and the «Recovery District»?

The recovery district has reduced its operating budget from $ 394 million in 2008 - 09 to a projected $ 47 million this year, according to a recent news report.

Shirley, of the state charter school association, said whether the recovery district was created with a spirit of permanency is up for debate.

Many charters argue they want to retain their autonomy, ability to directly accept federal dollars directly and spend them as they see fit, and not pay for a central office overhead, and therefore stay with the recovery district.

Before Hurricane Katrina, the recovery district had taken over five city schools that had been deemed «failing.»

The academic results in the recovery district charters have been remarkably uneven, with some closing because of dismal performance, and other upstarts posting higher scores in some grades than the longtime academic leaders.

The legislature then voted to place 107 of the 128 public schools in New Orleans under control of the recovery district.

Indeed, while the Orleans Parish School Board owns the majority of the city's public school property, the recovery district took over operation of the properties when schools were turned over.

That's because it's not up to the recovery district or the school board to decide when charters move back to local control.

If the initial goal of the recovery district was to swoop in, turn around failing schools and hand them back to the publicly elected school board in better shape, it hasn't gotten there yet.

As you might know, after Katrina the lowest performing schools were assembled into a district known as «The Recovery District» (RSD) which has become a grand...

In New Orleans, the Hurricane Katrina disaster provided an opportunity to privatize virtually the entire school system by creating a «recovery district.»

Philadelphia is imploding — any day now the charter school management companies that are «losing» profits will pack up, as they do and have done in the Recovery District — , teachers are losing jobs, unemployment is soaring — and yet that Vallas Disaster is held up as a success??? We are sick of your snake oil!

Step two: Instead of the whole district, the state should take over the worst 10 percent of schools, thus creating a «recovery district» that the state oversees but does not operate.

A recovery district would have new leaders who would evaluate each school and its operator, and be free to replace leadership and staff as needed.

How much longer are they — Malloy, Finch, Pryor, Arne «I'm fascinated» Duncan, the Wall Street Journal — going to keep insisting that the man who «ran» Chicago, Philadelphia, and the Recovery District schools is surely qualified?