Sentences with phrase «serious about its failing schools»

Created in the Race - to - the - Top - application era to convince federal proposal - scorers that Tennessee was serious about its failing schools, the ASD was charged with, well, doing exactly that.

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Dozens of residents turned out for the meeting, furious about recent events in Ramapo, including an FBI investigation into St. Lawrence as well as a state investigation alleging that town fire inspector Adam Peltz allegedly failed to report serious safety violations at several private schools.

However, when the dashboard tells us that a school is persistently failing to improve outcomes for its children, I hope the state is serious about addressing that failure.

«If Wisconsin is serious about improving schools, we must stop expanding this failing voucher program and instead invest in public schools that provide opportunity to all students, regardless of their zip codes.»

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

sent a clear message early in its existence with several high - profile closures of failing schools, which signaled it would put the interests of students above all else and that trustees and staff were serious about upholding standards.

The State University of New York's Charter School Institute (SUNY) sent a clear message early in its existence with several high - profile closures of failing schools, which signaled it would put the interests of students above all else and that trustees and staff were serious about upholding standards.

These changes, along with a lawsuit filed by Sinclair against the Conservative federal government when they failed to provide millions of archival records pertaining to residential schools, helped to demonstrate that he was serious about documenting the stories of the survivors, families and communities affected by residential schools.