Sentences with phrase «run recovery school»

That law relies more on absolute comparisons of test scores, so it sometimes seems as if Ben Franklin High School, which accepts only high - achieving students, is measured on the same yardstick as schools in the state - run Recovery School District, where the average student starts well below grade level.

Finn has recommended that Maryland establish a state - run recovery school district, similar to the one created in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, for the lowest - performing schools.

Louisiana created the state - run Recovery School District to take over failing schools shortly before Katrina.

The state - run Recovery School District, which oversees many charters in the city, and the Orleans Parish School Board said the work would begin that fall.

This fall, New Orleans» state - run Recovery School District will become the nation's first big - city school system comprised entirely of charter schools.

But there is a continuing debate over which of the two entities should provide broad oversight to the autonomous charters — the state - run Recovery School District or the Orleans Parish School Board, which had to surrender oversight of the failing schools.

The Lens is partnering with The Hechinger Report on a continuing, in - depth look at this first year in which all schools under control of the state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans have become charters, making it a one - of - a-kind district in the country.

By then, the state - run Recovery School District had taken control of five of the city's poorly performing schools from their locally elected leaders.

They say the state - run Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board are violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and «have failed to make a lawful determination as to whether your waste is hazardous...»

Just one bill became law, in Louisiana, and it was referred to as the «reverse parent trigger,» letting parents send low - performing schools in the state - run Recovery School District back to their local system.

Test scores for students in Louisiana's state - run Recovery School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the state.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of New Orleans teachers were summarily dismissed after the Louisiana Legislature voted to turn over all but a handful of the city's schools to the state - run Recovery School District.

As a model for the Memphis efforts, district, charter, and state leaders are looking down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where the state - run Recovery School District has converted most of the public schools in the city to charter status.

With its state - run Recovery School District in place since 2005 to intervene in low - performing schools, Louisiana also has more experience at intervening in large numbers of schools than most other states.

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.

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.

While the state - run Recovery School District created in 2003 has its share of critics, credible external evaluation suggest that test scores and graduation rates have indeed improved under the districtwide takeover by charter schools.

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

In doing so, education leaders must also decide whether to transfer the schools to the state - run Recovery School District, which took over most of the public schools in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

Just weeks after the storm, officials turned the city's failing schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

Researchers at the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University also found that conditions at campuses in the state - run Recovery School District...

Within weeks of Hurricane Katrina, officials turned the city's schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

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.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

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In the recovery of the true capacity of reasoning for both moral and religious insight and of course in the witness of lives well lived, the evidence of schools well run.»

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Since 2011, the all - boys» private school, generally known as St. Mike's, has been running programs in partnership with the David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic at the University of Toronto to support the recovery of student athletes who have sustained concussions, known medically as mild traumatic brain injuries.

Via our charity, The Countryside Alliance Foundation, we run a series of fantastic projects, including Fishing for Schools and Casting for Recovery UK & Ireland.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Kevin Green has recognized youth volunteers from The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and Dodge Pratt Northam Art Community all performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's, Out of the Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide, Making Strides to end Breast Cancer Walk, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, youth mentoring and tutoring and other community activities.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Bob Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway for Utica children, making Christmas cards to send to veterans and service members, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Walk to end Alzheimer's and Rome's Relay for Life, cleaning senior citizen's yards, preparing food and serving meals at local food pantries, folding and stuffing envelopes at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other community activities.

Martel, the long - time social studies teacher, says credit - recovery classes ran 82 hours per quarter at his school compared to 125 hours for classes held during the school day, and that teachers were told not to give homework.

In New Orleans, leaders are on the verge of «returning» oversight of independently run charter schools from the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board.

For her part, Shiley, a reading recovery teacher at the Virginia Beach (Virginia) school, helps to organize the 25 volunteers who learn to run the games and manage the activities during their evening event.

In my travels, I've spoken to people who run alternative schools, people who work in recovery programs to reclaim existing dropouts, and people involved in a variety of dropout prevention programs.

A charter school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run school operator may be around for three to five years, but these are buildings that must last for a century, notes Ramsey Green, who, as the Recovery School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run School District's chief operating officer, is in charge of creating campuses for both RSD and OPSB schools, charters and direct - run alike.

Those schools were made part of a «Recovery School District,» run by the state but eligible to become charters if they wished.

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, Springschools 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, SpringSchools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

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 straightschools — 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 straightSchools 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 straightschools — 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.

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Uptown schools run directly by the Recovery School District, such as Walter Cohen High School, and even some of its charters, such as the Sojourner Truth Academy, were rated «academically unacceptable.»

Schools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - PiSchools run by the Recovery School District in Baton Rouge — originally designed to take over the state's worst - performing schools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools, and the governing body of many New Orleans schools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Pischools since Hurricane Katrina — still show far worse results than those run locally in Orleans Parish, according to results released by the state Department of Education and compiled for the New Orleans area by the Times - Picayune.

The board running the New Beginnings Charter School Network publicly interviewed two finalists Thursday for chief executive officer, one from Milwaukee with Louisiana experience, and the other with the Recovery School District.

Though the facility discussion dominated the meeting, White said he had hoped to also talk about whether the school should remain run directly by the Recovery School District or become a chschool should remain run directly by the Recovery School District or become a chSchool District or become a charter.

Elsey is the chief schools officer for the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan, a state - run turnaround system similar to the Recovery School District.

For a while, the state's Recovery School District — eerily, it was given that name before Katrina and referred only to academic «recovery» — ran a set of traditional schools alongside a growing charterRecovery School District — eerily, it was given that name before Katrina and referred only to academic «recovery» — ran a set of traditional schools alongside a growing charterrecovery» — ran a set of traditional schools alongside a growing charter sector.

[The Louisiana Recovery School District is the state entity that Paul Vallas ran before he made his way to Bridgeport].