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.
Not exact matches
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.
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, Spring
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, Spring
Schools 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
District, a state -
run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national
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 straight
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 straight
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 straigh
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 straigh
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 straight
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 straight years.
The order did not apply to
Recovery School District charter school employees and some RSD run charter schools sported the signs as
School District charter
school employees and some RSD run charter schools sported the signs as
school employees and some RSD
run charter
schools sported the signs as well.
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 - Pi
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 - Pi
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 - Pi
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 - 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 ch
school should remain
run directly by the
Recovery School District or become a ch
School 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 charter
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 charter
recovery» —
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].
Leaders of the
Recovery School District organized the meetings, originally invitation - only, as that state agency decides which groups will land space in the seven
schools RSD
runs in north Baton Rouge.
Those two, combined with the candidates who
ran unopposed (including one candidate we helped recruit through our Education Leadership Institute), will ensure that an aligned, effective board majority will oversee the
Recovery School District schools when they return to OPSB oversight in the next two years.
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.
For months, the state Board of Education has been considering an ESSA plan that includes options for fixing the state's low - performing
schools, such as charter
schools, vouchers, and even possibly a state -
run «
recovery school district» similar to the one created in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
In February, Governor Hogan sent Smarick and Maryland's state superintendent of
schools a letter encouraging them to include private
school vouchers, charter
schools, and a state -
run «
recovery»
school district as specific interventions in Maryland's ESSA plan.
ALS, Inc., which currently operates one charter
school in Charlotte and is scheduled to open another this fall, also runs 23 alternative high schools focusing on dropout recovery in seven school districts across the state of Florida, according to a due diligence report provided to State Board of Ed members that was compiled by the National Association of Charter School Author
school in Charlotte and is scheduled to open another this fall, also
runs 23 alternative high
schools focusing on dropout
recovery in seven
school districts across the state of Florida, according to a due diligence report provided to State Board of Ed members that was compiled by the National Association of Charter School Author
school districts across the state of Florida, according to a due diligence report provided to State Board of Ed members that was compiled by the National Association of Charter
School Author
School Authorizers.
How much longer are they — Malloy, Finch, Pryor, Arne «I'm fascinated» Duncan, the Wall Street Journal — going to keep insisting that the man who «
ran» Chicago, Philadelphia, and the
Recovery District schools is surely qualified?
In 2011, during his time in New Orleans
running the state's
Recovery School District, he was sued by three fired principals.