Sentences with phrase «reform by closing schools»

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The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

The six - point plan, which also called for reducing incarceration rates and investing in schools to close what King termed the «school to prison pipeline,» is the broadest package yet proposed by Democratic gubernatorial candidates, though they all have pushed various justice reform issues, particularly Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summerschools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, SummerSchools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

If education reform could be accomplished simply by identifying and closing bad schools while expanding good ones, everything could be fixed already without any need for school choice.

A study of 32 San Francisco Bay Area K — 8 schools released in 2003 by the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (now Springboard Schools) found that «what matters most [in closing the achievement gap] is how schools use data.schools released in 2003 by the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (now Springboard Schools) found that «what matters most [in closing the achievement gap] is how schools use data.Schools) found that «what matters most [in closing the achievement gap] is how schools use data.schools use data.»

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black - White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind?

It is the repudiation of a host of corporate reforms that include the Common Core, high - stakes testing, school closings and the evaluation of teachers by test scores.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Parents and general public should be aware that public school closings in many cities are accompanied by the simultaneous expansion of charter schools and non-public options — schools which have become the darlings of corporate reform, but whose track records are often worse that those of comparable public schools.

2015: A Great Year For Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislature.

I tried mocking it: «If education reform could be accomplished simply by identifying and closing bad schools while expanding good ones, everything could be fixed already without any need for school choice.

Buffeted by declining enrollment, lagging performance and an education reform movement obsessed with choice, many traditional neighborhood - based public schools are being closed.

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

By Valerie Strauss February 5, 2010; 3:45 PM ET Categories: Daniel Willingham, Guest Bloggers Tags: Daniel Willingham, school reform Save & Share: Previous: Saturday's ACT exam rescheduled in storm areas Next: Deciding to close schools isn't always easy

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

Schools in more than 20 Kentucky counties were closed Friday as teachers across the state, frustrated by a pension reform bill passed by the legislature called in sick.

Our schools are under assault by corporate reform efforts, standardized testing, and a governor who is eager to fire teachers and close schools.

According to a study by the Center for Education Reform, an advocate of charters, 194 of 2,874 charter schools — 6.7 percent — have closed.

«The density of poverty brings a host of issues that these school districts have to deal with that aren't necessarily shared by the suburban counterparts,» said Jeffrey Villar, the executive director of Connecticut Council for Education Reform, a nonprofit devoted to closing the achievement gap.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

The School Reform Commission, trying to close the deficit created by Governor Corbett, canceled the teachers» contract unilaterally.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.

According to a 2011 report by the Center for Education Reform, about 15 % of charter schools close, and this happens within the first five years.

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

February 2012 — The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research found that four years after undergoing dramatic reform efforts, including turnarounds, low - performing elementary schools in Chicago closed the achievement gap in test scores by almost half in reading and two - thirds in math compared to similar schools that did not receive intervention.

Our role in Washington is to support reform by encouraging high standards, bold approaches to helping struggling schools, closing the achievement gap, strengthening the field of education, reducing the dropout rate and boosting college access.

«The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.

The effect is large: Finance reforms raise achievement in the lowest - income school districts by about one - tenth of a standard deviation, closing about one - fifth of the gap between high - and low - income districts.

As if to reiterate the close relationship between Governor Malloy and the charter school industry, the press release concluded with the statement that, «the new organization was also a response to the education reform initiatives pushed last winter and spring by CT Gov. Daniel P. Malloy.»

Diminished funding, school closings, turnarounds, takeovers, vouchers and the privatization of schools proliferate in a contemporary wave of reforms taking urban districts by storm.

reForm, a two - year installation and public engagement project by Pepón Osorio, takes as its starting point the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican immigrant community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inreForm, a two - year installation and public engagement project by Pepón Osorio, takes as its starting point the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican immigrant community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inschool established in 1887 and welded shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool Reform Commission inReform Commission in 2013.

-LSB-...] Curator and writer Carla Acevedo - Yates reviews an urban art project by Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, «reForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inreForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inschool established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool Reform Commission inReform Commission in 2013.

Projects supported by Center grants include Funeral for a Home, which celebrated the life of an individual row home before it was razed, as a response to years of widespread demolition in sections of Philadelphia; and reFORM, an immersive installation by Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio that responded to the closing of dozens of Philadelphia public schools.