Sentences with phrase «recovery school»

The local school board fought to regain oversight of the recovery charters — actually making a legal bid to attempt to regain control of recovery schools no longer considered failing.

It also established the work group looking at recovery schools.

One prototype is the all - charter, state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans, which was created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

The Orleans Parish school board and the state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans have announced plans to open an Early Childhood and Family Learning Center at an elementary school in the storm - battered city.

Prior to joining NSNO, Holly served as the Executive Director of Policy for the Louisiana Recovery School District for six years.

But Aaron did not speak for charter schools authorized by the School Board or for Recovery School District charters.

One strategy involves employing two full - time officers to patrol the streets of the New Orleans Recovery School District in order to track truant students and get them to class.

Since then the lowest performing schools have been taken over by Recovery School District Superintendent, Paul Vallas, a big supporter of the Charter movement.

Since August, she's been spending evenings and Saturdays at the Gary Middle College, one of a handful of dropout recovery schools in Indiana.

After Katrina, the state Recovery School District took control of the city's schools, many of which were failing.

As is now well known, after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's newly created Recovery School District (RSD), which operated on a small scale before the storm, rapidly expanded its footprint in New Orleans.

One will be for a so - called recovery school aimed at letting teen addicts continue their education while getting treatment; the other will be for straight - up charter schools in either Milwaukee or Madison.

Interventions like Recovery School Districts are often predicated and justified by the state being clear about which schools are dramatically failing children.

Successful Recovery School District charters may decide each year whether to return to Orleans Parish.

There, in the wake of the hurricane, the statewide Recovery School District took control of most of the district's many struggling schools.

What policy leaders and charter advocates contend, in nearly every one of these takeover cases, is that they are following the reform model from Louisiana's state - operated Recovery School District, which took over most of New Orleans» public schools after Hurricane Katrina.

Schools with special - ed student populations of more than 50 percent and so - called credit recovery schools, where high - school students get a second chance at coursework they failed or didn't complete the first time around, would be exempt.

This rate does not include historically struggling Recovery School District charters in New Orleans.

Instead of being feted and replicated, the path breaking and life - changing Recovery School District is being assaulted from all sides by the opponents of change.

The presence of several Recovery School District staffers, charter board members and principals at Wednesday's event appeared to show they were listening.

The Associated Press reports that Maryland opened the first such public recovery school program in the nation, the Phoenix School, in 1979, as an alternative program in Montgomery County.

When the state legislature swept 107 schools into the expanded Recovery School District, it nullified the collective bargaining agreement between the Orleans Parish School Board and the union at those schools.

NOLA's pioneering Recovery School District - led system is hugely promising, but D.C.'s Public Charter School Board (PCSB)- led system could potentially show us even better strategies.

When asked where this phased approach came from, Chu noted that the Indiana team had visited Louisiana's famed Recovery School District several times.

The Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP), Recovery School Distinct (RSD), the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) and FEMA developed an alternate project agreement to repair, replace, and rehabilitate the original 127 damaged campuses and, over an eight year timeline, return RSD and OPSB to operation with a total of 87 campuses.

com Bye, bye Recovery School District; hello Orleans School Board: 9 schools set to transfer

Charter news unfolded slowly this week with more analysis of what Louisiana - style recovery school district efforts have produced, and then caught steam as the Georgia senate voted in favor of Governor Deal's Opportunity School District plan: AJC's Greg Bluestein analyzes the political landscape as Governor Deal's OSD proposal comes up for a vote in the -LSB-...]

YouthBuild Charter School of California, a competency - based, dropout recovery school uses applied, project - based learning and authentic assessments to measure student growth.

Eyeing Gary's ripe population of dropouts, two other dropout recovery schools considered applying for charters from the Indiana School Board last year, but withdrew their applications for now.

Now 17 and clean, she credits her continued success to Hope Academy in Indianapolis, a tuition - free recovery school where she's enrolled as a junior.

And now he has taken the reins of the much smaller, but deeply troubled Recovery School District in New Orleans.

The state Recovery School Department superintendent, Patrick Dobard, said neither his staff nor KIPP's was satisfied with the score.

Second, despite reform efforts, the NOLA Recovery School District has many of the lowest performing schools in Louisiana, which is one of the lowest performing states on the National Assessment of Education Progress (aka, the Nation's Report Card).

I will say [Recovery School District Superintendent] Patrick Dobard did call me yesterday and left me a voicemail asking me to call him back.

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

Paul Vallas has adopted a dozen strategies to fix New Orleans» ailing Recovery School District and combat the increasing truancy problem.

That is, transfer Recovery School District charters back to the local school board.

Among the funding models he's looked at are those used by Hope Academy in Indianapolis and Insight Recovery School in Minnesota.

Authored 6,7, 8 grade English curriculum revisions Recovery School District Curriculum Planning Committee

He then worked in a variety of district, non-profit, and charter school contexts, supporting and training novice teachers through Teach For America, working within Miami - Dade County Public Schools and the Louisiana Recovery School District with TNTP, and serving within the San Francisco Unified School District as a Fellow with Education Pioneers.

The guidance comes as the charter school movement, which often takes hold in disenfranchised communities, continues to boom: last week, the New Orleans Recovery School District closed its last five public schools, becoming the nation's first district consisting entirely of charter schools.

The state - run Recovery School District oversees both and had the final authority on their fate: Wilson stays; Lagniappe goes.

At the behest of Recovery School District officials, Einstein is taking over Intercultural Charter School, an F - rated school currently serving 425 students.