Sentences with phrase «said failing public schools»

In Buffalo last month, Cuomo said failing public schools should get the «death penalty.»

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A cafeteria contractor has delivered spoiled foods to several D.C. public schools, failed to properly train its staff and distributed some meals without milk and fruit, school officials say.

«He's supported charter schools, cut funding for public schools, and has said failing schools should face the death penalty.

Under Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York state government has failed to live up to the CFE ruling, continuing to underfund public schools and stubbornly refusing to pay what the courts have said is owed to them

«There had been a degree of talk in the chattering class that he was hoping she would fail,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

He said negotiations failed around three major issues, including raising the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18, a potential cost shift from public schools to charter schools and a real estate tax abatement program in New York City.

Supporters of strengthening charter schools say they offer children at failing public schools a chance out of poverty.

De Blasio said the costs will make it difficult to fund current and future initiatives such as adding more police and fixing failing public schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

«New York is learning what happens when the Mayor prioritizes his personal national ambitions over running New York: crime is on the rise, public schools are still failing our children, and Bill de Blasio's signature initiative, Vision Zero, isn't working,» Laska said in a statement.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

A new report says the NYC Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

Even Mayor de Blasio's Republican opponent Paul Massey says Albany should extend mayoral control of city schools — though he charged Hizzoner has «utterly failed» at leading the public school system.

In 2015, the New York City Department of Education said it would investigate allegations that 39 Orthodox yeshivas failed to meet state law requiring them to provide an education equivalent to their public school counterparts.

A new report says the Education Department's support networks for public schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide schools fail to boost student achievement, just days ahead of an announcement by city Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña to overhaul the massive, citywide system.

Almost half of city residents polled said the mayor «failed in his goal» to turn the city's public schools around.

School educators and stakeholders in the Buffalo Public School District say parental involvement is key in changing failing schools and leading students to success.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

Reforming failing public schools in poor neighborhoods is the first preventative step to future incarceration, Cuomo said.

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

Powell said charters got their opportunity because of the failings of traditional public schools.

He said the high - stakes testing linked to Common Core is designed to fail public schools in disadvantaged communities and convert then into privately - managed charter schools.

Moskowitz also spoke about the perceived failings of the public school system, saying even the most talented teachers «are really working with their hands tied behind their backs and their feet tied together,» due to teachers» union restrictions.

In response to a question on whether the state should raise its cap on charter schools, Mr. Hawkins said, «Public schools fail because we're the most - segregated state in the United States.»

«The mayor's obstructionism means nearly 150,000 seats sit empty in public buildings while public charter schools are shut out, depriving countless families of an escape from failed schools,» Moskowitz said after the rally.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says transgender students are often harassed in public schools across the state and education officials have failed to carry out a legislative mandate to protect them.

«We really tried to tell the story as, «We are not getting rid of this horrible institution» — although it was failing kids and was a huge injustice — but we tried to tell the public that, «We are revitalizing the school to restore its proper place in the community,»» he says.

They say that public schools are failing unless each and every one of their graduates are college - and career - ready.

«The public perception,» says Stanford professor Tom Dee who has researched the law, «seems to be that No Child Left Behind has failed, but the available research evidence suggests it led to meaningful — but not transformational — changes in school performance.»

The nation's public schools have failed to adequately prepare students for life after high school, said honors students in college who participated in a recently concluded «national forum» series.

That said, this holds true of traditional public schools as well, many of which can be allowed to fail for years on end.

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For instance, Gallup has reported that, when asked how they would interpret the fact that «large numbers of public schools fail to meet the requirements established by the NCLB law,» just 43 % of respondents said they'd blame the public schools for the outcome.

By 84 percent to 14 percent, Americans said that even when a public school has been failing for several years, the best response is to keep the school open and try to improve it rather than shut it down.

In any case, says Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, it takes more than a few vouchers or mayoral control to turn around a failing school system.

The Allentown Morning Call wrote Sunday that «Corbett said he wants vouchers «aimed at failing schools,» where parents, if they choose, «should be able to go the public school next door... or that private school... and take that money and get that opportunity.»

Brooks says he knows skipping state tests doesn't address broader concerns about labeling schools as «failing» and increasing influence of private companies in public education.

The public schools have failed these low - income students, supporters say, but critics of this approach say it neglects the sociocultural barriers for schools serving a predominantly impoverished population.

More than a third of the Washington state students who entered public high school as freshmen in the class of 2003 failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002, a state education official said yesterday.

North Carolina public schools have failed black students, he says, many of them crammed into the same low - performing, low - wealth schools his legislation targets.

The Star - Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K - 5, is being shut down for failing to meet student academic and social needs: Kimberley Harrington, then commissioner of the Department of Education, in a Jan. 12 letter to IAT said the state was not renewing the charter because the academy «failed to provide a strong educational program and sustained organizational stability.»

Fast forward to 2017: President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have championed a plan to provide federal funding for private school voucher systems nationwide, which would funnel millions of taxpayer dollars out of public schools and into unaccountable private schools — a school reform policy that they say would provide better options for low - income students trapped in failing schools.

«I think it's the year for us,» said state Rep. Brad Montell, R - Shelbyville, who announced Monday that he had filed a bill to allow the creation of state - funded charters dubbed «public school academies,» which he said would provide an alternative to failing schools.

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.

Supporters say private schools offer an option for parents whose children have been failed by traditional public schools, but opponents note schools receiving public vouchers maintain policies that are openly discriminatory toward LGBTQ students and their families.

«I give this budget an «F» grade for failing public school students in California and across the nation,» Torlakson said in the statement.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

During debate on the charter school expansion, Democrats said they were troubled by the push to increase charter schools rather than help failing public schools.

DENVER --- This afternoon, schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said there's a «Plan B» in place should D.C. Public Schools teachers fail to ratify the controversial two - tier contract currently under negotischools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said there's a «Plan B» in place should D.C. Public Schools teachers fail to ratify the controversial two - tier contract currently under negotiSchools teachers fail to ratify the controversial two - tier contract currently under negotiations.

«While the intentions may have been good, a decade of top - down, test - based schooling created by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top — focused on hyper - testing students, sanctioning teachers and closing schools — has failed to improve the quality of American public education,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.