Sentences with phrase «school closure policies»

She joined a coalition of parents that successfully fought to keep the school open, and became a member of ESP Vision (Educators, Students and Parents for a Better Vision for Seattle Schools), a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

, a citywide organization founded to oppose the district's school closure policies.

This study should, by no means, fuel rash school closure policies.

Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have long defended the school closure policy, arguing that it is irresponsible to keep kids trapped in failing schools.

The DOE's school closure policy has come under intense fire from education advocates and elected officials who believe the city should be investing more to turn failing schools around instead of shutting them down.

While de Blasio has been a harsh critic of former mayor Michael Bloomberg's policy of closing long - struggling schools, he has sought to differentiate his school closure policy from his predecessor's by arguing that schools be given a fighting chance before they are closed, and that the administration closes schools quickly rather than dragging out the process via phase out.

Earlier I wrote about the HPS school closure policy and administrative regulations, Policy 3600 (2004).

Not exact matches

Wadleigh's truncation had been scheduled for a vote on Wednesday evening, April 25, by the Panel for Education Policy (PEP), the body that votes on Department of Education (DOE) policy and school cloPolicy (PEP), the body that votes on Department of Education (DOE) policy and school clopolicy and school closures.

City Comptroller John Liu vowed to put a moratorium on school closures and also promised to end the policy of co-locating charter and traditional public schools in the same buildings, which he said has been disruptive at many schools.

Chief among the committee's recommendations is the elimination of the mayor's majority on the Panel for Educational Policy, which decides on school co-locations, closures and other important matters and which has never rejected a proposal brought by the city under the Bloomberg administration.

Further, thousands of Renewal Schools children, their parents, and hard - working teachers all around the city also learned that their educational futures would abruptly change via a cornucopia of closures, mergers, and truncations upon which the mayor's Panel for Educational Policy will vote.

They vote on policy and make decisions about school closures and consolidations.

Ewing, who is currently completing her dissertation «Shuttered Schools in the Black Metropolis: Race, History, and Discourse on Chicago's South Side» — a look at the 2013 public school closures in Chicago, and the relationship between such closures and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community — is a sociologist focused on issues of racism, social inequality, and urban policy.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

There are those who seek greater uniformity among state charter - school policies — urging that all charters should be for five years and that default closure provisions should be spelled out, among other guidelines.

This is the second of three pieces to show how this conceptual friction actually rears its head in the real policy world — the first was on school closures, the third will be on ESEA reauthorization and NCLB waivers.

As I wrote in this piece about prudent school - closure policies, there is often invisible but incalculable value in institutions and practices that have survived the test of time.

But that would diminish the authority of local school boards; require changes to policies on facilities, transportation, enrollment, and funding; potentially lead to school closures and job losses; undermine «neighborhood» schools; and more.

Interestingly, save for Ohio's automatic closure law that was applied to a handful of charters, state policy did not directly shutter the schools in this study.

When school closure or teacher evaluation policies disproportionately impact low - income communities of color, is that in itself evidence of an injustice that must be addressed?

This year, by far the most lopsided finding in the survey was about a controversial reform policy: school closures.

And with regards to closure, while I surely disagree with middle class Californians on many policy issues, I'm not sure that I think I know enough about their children to close schools that have modest negative test impacts but high enrollment demand.

Dismissing studies that found that it had benefited students, de Blasio characterized Bloomberg's closure policy as «an excuse not to address ways to help struggling schools improve and meet our expectations that all students graduate ready for college or a career.»

We need to ensure that closure policies target persistently failing schools.

The Assembly has proposed revisions to the enrollment and retention policy that many traditional district schools themselves have not been able to meet and includes penalties that would likely result in the closure of charter schools across the state.

The most paternalist policies in place today require the closure of underperforming schools even if they are popular with parents.

As noted, school closures have been a popular policy approach both for charter schools and for traditional public schools, particularly in large urban areas.

Consistent with written state policies, we find that the School Performance Score is the strongest measurable driver of closure and renewal decisions.

But when political leaders push policies that have no track record of success and are obviously senseless — Noguero mocked the whole notion of school closures as a solution to education failure by asking, «If we had too much crime in a neighborhood would we shut down the police department?»

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

That same morning, the Journey for Justice Alliance, Advancement Project and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education hosted a breakfast forum focused on the negative impact of school closures, one of the policies encouraged under No Child Left Behind.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dec. 10: The Journey for Justice Alliance, Advancement Project and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education will be hosting a breakfast forum focused on the impact of school closures in low - income communities.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stSchools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable stschools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

But with free school closure rates, it seems to me, likely to be well above anything experienced in local authorities in the past; further questions hanging over the future of organisations such as Chapel Street and Parkfield; and general worries about the merits of setting up lots of small new institutions at a time of belt - tightening, questions about this policy are mounting up.

As New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina begins to make policy decisions, many — such as limiting or even eliminating schools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of chaSchools Chancellor Carmen Farina begins to make policy decisions, many — such as limiting or even eliminating schools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of chaschools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of charter...

Listen to J4J's commentary: «To justify this radical transformation... the proponents of these policies have taken to talking about them as matters of racial and social justice... As the residents of the communities most affected by school closures and charter school expansion, we must take issue with this rhetorical description.

School closures are the not so distant cousins of policing, housing and health policies that seek to unearth, delete or disperse community assets as a way to improve outcomes.

As New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina begins to make policy decisions, many — such as limiting or even eliminating schools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of charter schools — are intended to roll back the policies of the previous administSchools Chancellor Carmen Farina begins to make policy decisions, many — such as limiting or even eliminating schools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of charter schools — are intended to roll back the policies of the previous administschools closures and restricting or ending the co-location of charter schools — are intended to roll back the policies of the previous administschools — are intended to roll back the policies of the previous administration.

It also requires that CPS «develop policies to remedy academic deficiencies in schools where students are testing «at or below 75 %» standards on state assessments, and to include in those policies clear criteria for board actions relating to school facility interventions such as closures.»

Finnigan's current research focuses on social network analysis in low - performing schools and districts; school improvement under sanction; inter-district choice; district - wide reform; accountability policies; school closure; and the role of districts and states in school improvement.

Second, we simply can not tolerate anyone telling us these policies are for our own good... The communities they're changing so rapidly are our communities, and our experience with school closures and charter school expansion confirms what an abundance of research has made quite clear: these policies have not produced higher - quality educational opportunities for our children and youth, but they have been hugely destructive... Third, while the proponents of these policies may like to think they are implementing them for us or even with us, the reality is that they have been done to us.»

In contrast, suburban West Hartford Public Schools does not appear to have a policy on school closure in their policy collection.

This suggests that school closure is something that happens in Hartford frequently enough to merit a policy that includes and protect parents from arbitrary decisions.

In the event of severe weather, such as hurricanes, MYcroSchool Jacksonville follows the Duval County Public Schools» policies on school closures.

She has been highly critical of Nutter's policies of school closures and moves to privatize the district.

Please support Moratorium Bill SB3239 / HB4487: This legislation stops school (closure) actions for the school year 2012 - 2013 while school districts establish policies that improve academic performance at low - performing schools.

Tens of thousands of students live in what Jitu Brown has described as «school deserts,» because their districts have been devastated by failed policies such as mass school closures, the proliferation of charter schools, and other privatization schemes.

Over the last decade, Hartford started (and ended) programs and neoliberal policies such as school closures, staff reconstitution, principal «autonomy», privatization, hyper - accountability, reduced economic security for teachers, preferential hiring for inexperienced and mostly white Teach for America participants, intradistrict and interdistrict school choice.

When a public school is made into a charter, it's removed from public oversight or electoral control: there goes community choice about school closures or educational policies.

Automatic closure laws «identify a threshold of minimally - acceptable performance» for charter schools; schools falling below this threshold at the time of renewal, or that remain below this threshold for a set amount of time, are automatically closed.29 The National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waSchool Authorizers (NACSA) recommends that at a minimum closure laws define: 1) the number of years of poor performance that prompts school closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waschool closures; 2) the level of performance that triggers closure; 3) what entity has discretion to make exceptions and the structure of any waiver process; and 4) if applicable, what types of schools can be exempt from closure policies or apply for waivers.