Sentences with phrase «recovery school district»

The superintendent of Recovery School District in New Orleans said he's inclined to help districts when he can.

The superintendent of Recovery School District in New Orleans stopped by Peoria on his way home to Chicago for the holidays.

A dozen Louisiana Recovery School District charter schools in New Orleans have opted to stay in the state system for another year, instead of transferring back to Orleans Parish control.

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.

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

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

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.

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

To Patrick Dobard, the Louisiana Recovery School District superintendent, such interest shows New Orleans has more high - quality options.

Louisiana Recovery School District officials said the principals, Tim Hearin and Alex Perez, snagged almost $ 320,000 in public money for the school in the 2014 - 15 academic year by artificially inflating special education services.

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.

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

At this point, Lewis is being called upon to do nothing short of bringing the city back together, 10 years after the state Recovery School District took over four fifths of the city's schools.

They include: Bill Orr, Executive Director for Collaborative for High Performance Schools; Shae Kalyani, VP of Marketing for Pureology; Erin Schrode, spokeswoman and co-founder of the US - based Turning Green campaign; Ramsey Green, Deputy Superintendent of Operations at Recovery School District Louisiana; Walker Wells, Director of the Green Urbanism Program at Global Green; Matt Petersen, President and CEO at Global Green.

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-...]

But after 16 years as a principal, Clark has also become a dinosaur of sorts — one of the last principals remaining in the city's Recovery School District who was there to guide the schools before Katrina (district officials say there are a couple of other veteran principals remaining from the pre-Katrina era, though the number is dwindling).

The Louisiana Recovery School District seized 80 percent of the campuses from the Orleans Parish School Board, and charter schools — independently run, publicly funded — sprouted everywhere.

The Louisiana Recovery School District announced Tuesday (Feb. 24) that InspireNOLA will take over Wilson, after seven groups applied for the assignment.

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.

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

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.

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

Another Malloy proposal — a state takeover of the worst failure mills through the creation of a special district modeled off of the successful Recovery School District in New Orleans — wouldn't happen until the 2013 - 3014 school year.

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.

We're not building schools for the OPSB [Orleans Parish School Board], we're not building schools for the RSD [the state - run Recovery School District], nor are we building schools for charters.

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

Louisiana's Recovery School District showed that a new type of statewide entity could work around a district.

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.

Students in New Orleans» Recovery School District produced gains on Louisiana's high - stakes exam this spring, with 4th graders posting scores that showed across - the - board growth in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»

And a 2013 investigative story published in Newsweek on New Orleans» Recovery School District notes that at that point in time, eight years following the establishment of the RSD, 79 percent of those schools were still rated a D or F according to the Louisiana Department of Education.

More than any other factor, creation of the state - run Recovery School District paved the way for the transformation of New Orleans» public schools.

You can bet he modeled it after Louisiana's Recovery School District which he also headed at the time.

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

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

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.

Whereas the rate of special needs students in the New Orleans Recovery School District public schools is 12.6 %, only 7.8 % of charter school students have disabilities.

As a Type 5 Charter school, Morris Jeff Community School uses the OneApp process (Recovery School District application) for accepting new students to our school.