Sentences with phrase «remain in failing district»

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These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after - school tutoring, to students who remain in schools that have failed to improve student performance.

The act burdens the states as well as local districts, imposing obligations to develop academic standards, test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, hire «highly qualified» teachers in core subjects, and reconstitute persistently failing schools in order to remain eligible for federal aid.

As long as the Stull Act remains unenforced in numerous districts throughout the state, our students will continue to suffer and California will fail to live up to its promise of equal educational opportunity for all.

There are real doubts and questions regarding a return to elected, local control, and they have remained since before the great breaches in the levees: how can a traditional district turn around failing schools and what are the limits of state intervention?

While school districts may develop local promotion criteria, the prohibition against promoting students who fail one or more TAKS exams at the fifth or eighth grade level (unless the local grade placement committee unanimously agrees to promote) remains in place.