Sentences with phrase «schools over to»

Adamowski, Vallas, Fischer in New London, Kishimoto — they are leading the charge to increase segregation in schools; to deprive poorer children of art and music (an award - winning Middle School music program at Windham Middle School is currently languishing, with students not allowed the time to take what used to be daily music classes — more test prep, more test prep); to turn schools over to for - profit companies and mercenary non-educators from TFA and Broad — but all roads lead back to Hartford.

This clearly indicates that some type of deal has or will be struck to hand even more Hartford schools over to the Fuse / Jumoke charter school management company.

Discussions were taking place in Hartford about turning over one or more of the local schools over to the nation's biggest charter school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130 schools around the country.

He oversaw the wholesale privatization of the New Orleans Public Schools following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in which he turned almost all of the public schools over to charter school operators.

Chris Cerf (class of 2004), the acting New Jersey Education Commissioner, has been criticized for not identifying his involvement in a consulting firm which developed an secret plan to turn many Newark public schools over to charter operators.

Stephen Adamowski, who according to emails acquired through a Freedom of Information request, worked with Snow around Malloy's education reform bill, was a strong proponent of Hartford's Montessori school and now, as Malloy's Special Master for Windham and New London has been working hard to get Windham to switch one of its elementary schools over to a Montessori school.

Sanctions under NCLB ranged from mandating unregulated tutoring and allowing students to transfer out, to more serious interventions such as firing all staff and / or handing schools over to private operators.

Yet very quickly, Florida parents realized that this measure, which died in the State Senate on a 20 - 20 bipartisan tie vote, represented yet another underhanded ploy by corporate reformers, including Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, to hand public schools over to private, for - profit operators.

The ESSA regulations maintain the federal government's commitment to the privatization of public schools by requiring that states must implement programs to turn the «bottom 5 %» of schools over to privately owned and operated charter schools or instituted an alternative type of privatization or turnaround program.

For the first time, the government was mandating not only «accountability» (code for punishing teachers and schools who fall short), but also «choice» (code for handing low - performing public schools over to charter operators).

And yet, the Norwalk Board of Education appears to be on the verge of handing control of their public schools over to someone who has is a star witness for Governor Malloy's on - going attempt to undermine and defeat this critically important lawsuit.

Why on earth would the Norwalk Board of Education turn control of Norwalk's schools over to someone who is not only on Malloy's payroll but is actually one of Malloy's most outspoken witnesses in a case that would benefit the children AND taxpayers of Norwalk.

However, those who have been most directly impacted by his actions are mystified that public officials would choose to hand their community's students and schools over to him and his destructive leadership style.

We have a Democratic Governor proclaiming, with pride, that he will veto any «education reform» bill that doesn't give that same Commissioner the ability to take over 25 schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to some group of unnamed third - party entities who will then be exempt from Connecticut's laws on bidding and the use of consultants.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

He speaks as if the two choices to «save» our schools is to move around a window or two versus burning the building to the ground and then handing the property, construction and management of our schools over to someone else while telling them that they don't need to follow the zoning or labor laws when they re-build «our» school.

So instead of creating quality schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified teachers, dismantling locally elected school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning schools over to private turnaround operators.

Mr. White turned more schools over to charter school operators.

Even Michelle Rhee, the controversial anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-parent spokesperson for those who want to turn America's schools over to corporations, showed up in Hartford last week.

Beyond giving two additional public schools over to the quasi public - private model, funding from this grant will enable HPS staff to attend Achievement First «s New Coach Training.

«It would mean turning the future of our schools over to an industry that has poorer quality control than pet food manufacturers, who at least have to meet federal content standards.»

The bill would allow the education commissioner to get rid of the existing staff, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to another entity, such as a charter school management company, who would then run the schools while being exempt from state laws requiring competitive bidding and limiting the use of outside consultants.

Under Malloy's proposed «Commissioner's Network» system, the commissioner of education will take over 25 failing schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining, turn the schools over to a third party and that entity will then be legally exempt from the state's laws requiring competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of outside consultants.

Governor Dan Malloy used that quote to reiterate why the state should terminate tenure, shift to a teacher evaluation system that relies more heavily on standardized test scores and create something called the «Commissioner's Network» in which the state would take over 25 schools, fire the teachers, ban collective bargaining and turn the schools over to a third - party.

The issue Pryor is referring to is, in fact, the «Commissioner's Network» program — the very program that would allow him to take over up to 25 schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn those schools over to some other entity, such as a charter school management firm.

In recent weeks, parents from two community schools have risen up to successfully oppose proposals by Christina Kishimoto, Hartford's outgoing «reform» superintendent, and Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor to hand over their neighborhood schools over to private companies.

But what is most dangerous about DeVos is not just her incompetence, but the power she wields as U.S. Secretary of Education, her willful disrespect of public schools and the staff and students who work in them, and her zealous commitment to turning our nation's public schools over to private interests.

No, let them turn those schools over to us.

We say NO to Alberta Darling & Rep. Dale Kooyenga's proposal that hands Milwaukee's poorest & most underfunded public schools over to 3rd party operators.

Heading toward its first hearings, Florida's proposed «Parent Empowerment Act» came uder blistering criticism from parent groups saying the initiative was a «scheme» to hand neighborhood schools over to private entities.

The program allows schools to choose from four turnaround models: closing schools, turning schools over to a charter school management organization, shifting evaluation and curriculum, or replacing some staff.

Sen. Jerry Tillman breathed new life back into a proposal heard earlier this session that would have diverted funds typically reserved for traditional public schools over to charter schools.

Turning schools over to the ASD is becoming more controversial in light of data analysis that indicates the ASD is not doing better (and in some cases, is performing worse) than the schools were performing before ASD takeover.

Thelma Ellis Dickerson, of course, was Michael Sharpe's mother and the founder of Jumoke — so, while employed by Dickerson's son, and after propping up charter schools and shilling for Malloy's ed reform bill (which handed public schools over to operations such as Jumoke / FUSE), Simpson gets an award?

However, we are concerned that the real goal of California's Parent Empowerment Act may be to turn schools over to charter operators.

Gradually, the RSD turned schools over to charter operators, and the teacher workforce shifted toward alternatively prepared teachers from Teach for America and other programs.

They have done all this while de-funding schools, harshly over-testing students, treating teachers unprofessionally, ignoring well - informed parents, and turning their schools over to nonprofit and for - profit charters.

In March of 1995, a federal appeals court judge, citing the school board's mismanagement and fiscal irresponsibility, turned control of the city's schools over to the state.

Desperate for change, Mr. Seigal and his colleagues voted in 1989 to hand the management of Chelsea's schools over to Boston University.

Just weeks after the storm, officials turned the city's failing schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

When the school board finally turned 36 schools over to new management, only four were awarded to charter school operators.

Within weeks of Hurricane Katrina, officials turned the city's schools over to the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and gave the RSD five years to turn them around.

There's also the sticky question of why anyone would be willing to hand control of the schools over to the mayor of Rochester when it's unclear if the champion of that measure will even be around to implement it.

WESTPORT — Five years ago, A. Paul Scott, then serving as an interim, turned the keys of Elizabethtown - Lewis Central School over to new leader Scott Osborne.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

Many schools that reach NCLB's restructuring phase, rather than implementing one of the law's stated interventions (close and reopen as a charter school, replace staff, turn the school over to the state, or contract with an outside entity), choose the «other» option, under which they have considerable flexibility to design an improvement strategy of their own (see «Easy Way Out,» forum, Winter 2007).

Fresh off Malloy's «victory» of getting the Chief Operating Officer of FUSE / Jumoke Academy on to the State Board of Education, the Malloy Administration, Mayor Bill Finch and «Superintendent of Schools,» Paul Vallas, have apparently concocted a deal to hand Bridgeport's Paul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary School over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE) / Jumoke Academy to run.

The law creates a process known as the Parent Trigger, which allows a majority of parents at a low - performing school to sign a petition to trigger one of a narrow set of options — firing all or some of the staff, turning the school over to a charter operator, or closing the school.

In December 2010, signatures of more than 60 % of the school's parents were submitted to the school district, calling for turning the school over to the Celerity Educational Group charter operator.

** In the few California cases where the Parent Trigger was carried out, the ONLY option that is EVER chosen is handing the school over to a pre-determined for profit charter operator.