Sentences with phrase «school closures work»

There is no evidence to suggest that school closures work.

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The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

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.

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Those who already had a culture of supporting students with anywhere, anytime learning kept students and parents fully informed of school closures or openings, and could operate almost as normal with learning materials and activities available from anywhere, ongoing student teacher communications and on - line submission of completed work.

A vast majority of work can be undertaken in many cases during school closure.

In related work conducted in Massachusetts, Harvard economist Josh Goodman finds no effects of school closures on student achievement but large negative effects of weather - induced absences on moderately snowy days when schools remained open.

After nearly two weeks out of school, the teachers called off their walkout and returned to work — with no concessions beyond their initial 16 - percent raise, and with much of the initial goodwill rubbed off by a school closure that looked increasingly gratuitous.

Future work on closures should examine such factors as staff composition and mobility, faculty and student morale, and interpersonal relationships, to achieve a richer understanding of how closures impact school communities and student outcomes.

First, school turnarounds seldom work (contra the recent statement from AFT president Randi Weingarten), and closures stop us from continuing to send kids to chronically underperforming schools.

PCSB employs a cloud - based system for collecting and making available public documents; enrollment specialists work with students displaced by school closures; a recent internal reorganization better develops and deploys functional expertise; and the use of social media disseminates key school information.

A vast majority of work undertaken in many cases is undergoing during school closure.

Mandating that students work to pay off tuition, forging partnerships with philanthropists and foundations, converting to charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts — these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school - closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located.

In Philadelphia, working with the community to reclaim our public schools, we stopped school closures and kept public schools in public hands.

«I've done this work before,» she explained, referring to her efforts that made Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools, a network of charters she's credited with saving from imminent closure.

Change is not easy — as evidenced by the controversy that surrounded IMPACT and school closures — but the success achieved should help pave the way for the work still needed.

Before joining the Deputy Mayor's Office, she worked at District of Columbia Public Schools as Chief of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer during which she supported the agency's portfolio planning activities, including school closures, grade configuration changes, and enrollment projections.

The promise worked — last month D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson removed Garrison from the closure list.

We have additional enhancements in the works that will introduce project closure at the individual student level possible and we'll inform our schools when this becomes available later this summer.

Abstract: This article highlights the effort of citizens working together to strengthen their fight to save five of their local schools from closure.

To prevent the closure, Bahnam worked with an outside organization and a 21 - member school - based design team, comprised of parents, students, teachers, and administrators to develop a proposal and petition the district for Pilot school status.

But there is no closure, much less moral triumph in this episode — certainly not for the many independent charter schools in NYC that go to great lengths to work with and keep all their students in school and who are continually associated in the public eye with the practices of no - excuses charter schools.

But there is no closure, much less moral triumph in this episode — certainly not for the many independent charter schools in NYC that go to great lengths to work with and keep all their students in...

«Everything that he has said points to his wanting to move even more aggressively into corporate - style school closures and punishing - teacher - type of reforms that haven't been working.»

She further suggests that a working model for educator preparation reform is the one used at the beginning of the last century in overhauling and upgrading the country's medical schools, which resulted in the closure of over half of the medical training programs over a 25 - year period.

Charter critics often point to data showing that only 17 percent of charters outperform nearby traditional public schools, but proponents say closures are evidence that charter - school laws are working.

Over time as I work with actual parents who are going through school closures, it became very clear that this is wrong.

Apart from misaligned school and work schedules, school closures throughout the year can also disrupt parents» ability to go to work.

More specifically, we will support candidates who oppose high - stakes testing, mass school closures, the privatization of our public schools and the outsourcing of its core functions to for - profit corporations, and we will support candidates who work for evidence - based reforms that will improve our schools and the education of our nation's children.

Threat of school closures discourages professionals and families from working with Renewal Schools.

The threat of school closures discourages professionals and families from working with Renewal Schools, decreasing enrollments and teacher retention.

The threat of school closures discourages teachers from working at Renewal Schools and families from sending their children there.

Through the work of Oskar Schlemmer, we discover another Bauhaus, which is not only a school of applied arts, but also a key territory for performative and choreographic experiments in the interwar, until the closure in 1933.

If a working parent has had short notice of a school closure, and can't find alternative childcare, it would be very hard for an employer to justify discipline.

Critics are concerned that a trend of law school closures will decrease the number of lawyers who can serve the working class.

But rather than allowing the news of the charter school's impending closure to immobilize her, Hensler rolled up her sleeves and got to work.