In their statement,
school district officials noted the district's overall graduation rate, which includes the performance of the charter alternative schools, has risen in recent years.
Not exact matches
When pushed, they may find a way: As one
official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event
noted, in his state
districts and
schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.
Success
officials note that 4 percent of their students are former special ed and 5 percent former ELL, and that Success students are declassified at a higher rate than kids in
district schools.
The intent, as one
district official noted, «is to make the
school feel responsible for every student.»
Young, who served on the
school board,
noted that it's part of the responsibilities of the elected
officials to make sure that new
schools proposed in the
district meet educational requirements.
Although
district officials noted that each renewal
school already had a full - time parent liaison, in places where parents historically have not been engaged, such efforts hardly seem duplicative to those in the trenches.
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Noted education leader Paul Vallas was in town Friday talking to local business leaders about
school reform, and he plans to meet with
District 150
officials sometime after Christmas.
Yet, as the report goes on to
note, these state
officials, those with the express obligation to reduce segregation, have consistently chosen to do nothing to prevent charter
school segregation and its effects, including exacerbating racial, ethnic and economic imbalance in the host
school districts.