Sentences with phrase «school takeover»

Getting really tough on teachers and school takeover policies, supposedly, are all that matter.

Of course we need school takeover strategies and harsh discipline policies.

Controversial plan to allow for - profit charter school takeovers of low - performing NC schools re-emerges

As state legislators rush to impose a public school takeover bill on Milwaukee, people are starting to look more closely at the schools Republicans are labeling «in need of takeover.»

Several struggling Indiana school districts could eventually be impacted by a controversial school takeover bill legislators passed during the special session this week.

A lack of resources and capacity is exactly what opponents of school takeover argued — to which the reform crowd replied, «No excuses; Schools must be held accountable.»

The findings were striking: «Charter school takeovers in the New Orleans Recovery School District appear to have generated substantial achievement gains for a highly disadvantaged student population that enrolled in these schools passively.»

NATIONAL REPORT RELEASED The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools released a new report this week called «Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers.»

«This is about using the opportunity of the Muncie Schools» funding crisis to float a test balloon for school takeover in Indiana and in the United States,» says Boltz.

News21 recently put out a report on how school takeovers disproportionately affect poor, black communities.

Beyond the new rules for teacher evaluation, other big issues including implementation of the new Common Core State Standards, new online testing, the Camden school takeover by the state, and even the decrepit condition of Trenton High School were all on the list.

Tags: Chris Larson, community schools, state school takeovers by Félix Pérez; image: candidate Chris Larson addresses school walk - in participants Milwaukee parents, residents, educators, students and community groups are organized, vocal and persistent when it comes to derailing the effort by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his friends in the state legislature to take over their community schools.

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The Department for Education has given top academy headteachers two weeks to nominate themselves as candidates if they wish to advise RSCs on school takeovers, according to a new election website.

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Kentucky's legislature this year weakened the state's school takeover process and bolstered the powers of its local school boards to hire principals, select curriculum, and set a school's budget.

He also spoke at length about school takeover.

For example, in many school takeovers, states begin their reform by replacing a huge proportion of the teachers.

One hundred eighty - seven schools have school governance councils in place, the first condition required for families in the Nutmeg State to use the Parent Trigger and launch school takeovers.

Also, the Gates foundation is educationally a joke of a non-profit, lobbying for more school takeovers.

The Department for Education was responding to the education select committee's report on an alleged school takeover plot led by a conservative group of Muslims.

But Bryan says many politicians and educators weighed in on the idea to create a charter school takeover district.

Similar to the failed Milwaukee Public Schools takeover maneuver, Republican lawmakers included a break - apart plan that targets the Racine Unified School District.

School takeovers result in privatization of public schools and create greater inequality and segregation with no discernible change in student outcomes.

Rocketship's board considers Nashville school takeovers through controversial Tennessee Achievement District.

The presentations served as a warning to parents in Nashville that while reform and innovation can be exciting, it is also important to closely monitor school takeovers and choice options to ensure they meet the community's needs.

Many sanctions foisted on schools and communities — such as school takeovers — also had no basis in research.

In May, Malloy signed a deal that instead included a limited collective bargaining and arbitration process during school takeovers.

In a June interview with Salon, Weingarten touted a statewide compromise in Connecticut (backed by both national unions) which included school takeovers with limited collective bargaining, and a union contract for New Haven, Connecticut which give management greater discretion in firing teachers.

Michigan's floundering efforts at school takeover provided great ammunition to opponents in Georgia.

Besides the enormous concerns with Achievement First's disciplinary policies as revealed in the report last year (which should have resulted in placing the charter under state supervision and in preventing additional school takeovers, I mean openings), a troubling issue with In - School Suspensions, Time Out Rooms, and Out - of - School suspensions, at all grade levels, is that it takes students out of the learning environment.

'' Read more about: Failing The Test: UCLA's John Rogers on Eli Broad's Charter School Takeover Dreams»

Public education supporters will gather in front of their schools before the day starts to chant, march and share information about how school takeovers hurt our students.

Saturday's citywide convening of School Defense Committees brought together parents, students, educators, community members, and politicians from all around the city and beyond to take the next step in the fight against public school takeovers and advance public community schools for Milwaukee.

Even as they acknowledged defects in Gov Nathan Deal's school takeover bill, lawmakers contended they could not wait another day; students were suffering now.

The difference in style, along with substance, was clear in one of biggest education stories of the year: the Camden school takeover.

«Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers» by the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools — August 2015

This week in #nced: Local, State Education Leaders Make the Case for More Flexibility; NC School Board Delays Choosing Operator for School Takeover

A complete charter school takeover of the district, as in New Orleans, could mean hundreds of millions in revenue for Dallas» education non-profits, including Uplift and other Chamber members.»

School takeovers in other parts of the country eliminate good jobs that can attract and retain a highly qualified workforce.

This educational inequality was a key complaint in recent years during massive student protests that rocked Santiago with marches and school takeovers, leading the government to undertake a still - ongoing reform effort.

I lived across the street from an elementary school that had resisted a charter school takeover and down the road from a middle school that had to close from lack of enrollment and was in the midst of being turned into luxury condos.

School takeovers and overhauls have a mixed record.

MILWAUKEE Last spring, the Wisconsin legislature passed a school takeover bill that requires Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele to convert 1 - 3 public schools in Milwaukee to charters this year and up to five every year afterwards.

Chris Abele now says, in a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, that he won't take over any MPS schools as a part of the state directed public school Takeover.

Attendees met in small groups, where they worked through School Defense Committee (SDC) toolkits that provide individuals and groups with the blueprints to organize locally in their building, church, or community group against public school takeovers.