Sentences with phrase «shutting down schools»

And anyway, we shouldn't take any notice of all this white stuff that is shutting down schools, making journeys impossible, and generally freezing our asses off.

When I pointed out that the main NYC DOE employee who is shutting down the schools is a TFA alum, himself, they said that they don't tell him what to do, and I reminded them that he was recently the keynote speaker at a large TFA fundraiser.

Shutting down schools and reopening new ones is likely to create an illusory bump in some statistics — in this case the 6.8 % improvement in graduation rate.

So this is the justification of the «impatient» reformers for disrupting and shutting down schools, dismissing whole staffs, and dislocating thousands of struggling poor children into other under - resourced buildings.

There are plenty of ex-KIPP teachers who say, «Please stop shutting down schools and using me as the justification for it.»

Shutting down schools and displacing children is not the way to move forward and improve.

«Please stop shutting down schools and using me as the justification for it.»

In this parallel universe, TFA and reformers would be on opposite sides and TFA would be taking active stances against narrow - minded reforms that have not a single bit of evidence, like shutting down schools and firing teachers.

Other states would follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit, shutting down schools in black neighborhoods instead of providing what was then considered to be high - quality education.

Democrats could blame the debacle on Mr. Rauner, but shutting down schools statewide to force a bailout of Chicago schools isn't popular anywhere - not even in Chicago.

Craig Langman, of the campaign group Parents Want A Say, argued that headteachers are employing «double standards» by forbidding parents from taking their children out of school during term time while shutting down schools due to a «small blanket of snow».

If they fail to measure up, district officials have options ranging from firing staff members to shutting down schools.

If it ever did, that would be tantamount to shutting down the schools in an entire district or region because one class teacher failed to teach right, causing his or her students to fail.

More than 2 feet of snow fell across parts of central New York Tuesday, making travel treacherous and shutting down schools, government offices and many businesses across the region.

By shutting down schools to bus kids to a political rally, she is placing her own interests above the well - being of 4 - year - olds.

I don't want the endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers.

Puerto Rico has been mired in a painful recession since 2006 and has repeatedly cut budgets for education, shutting down schools and sparking a wave of migration to the U.S..

The blaze shut down schools and forced more than 200 patients at two city hospitals to evacuate.

The NCAA and / or the governor of PA since it is a state school, needs to shut down this schools football season and maybe even the entire sports department until this investigation is over.

In response, France has closed its embassies and shut down schools throughout the country, as a precautionary message against protests.

The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away, but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

The Lagos State Government has reached an agreement with private school proprietors to shut down any school indicted by the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC for...

The session came as at least the fourth time protesters had shut down School Board business, since a public outcry to remove Paladino first started.

Disgruntled students of the Ghana School of Surveying and Mapping (GSSM) have threaten to protest at the Flagstaff house if the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu does not revert his «unpopular» pronouncement to shut down the school.

CORTLANDT, N.Y. — The closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant is three years away but already the local school district is preparing for the possibility of teacher layoffs, higher taxes and even shutting down a school.

«If you want to know should I shut down this school or not, having real - time access to the influenza numbers could be very useful,» he says.

I am still clueless as to why the administration made the late decision and shut down the school AFTER students were already there.

As Boston's historic winter of snow shut down schools over a series of weeks, many politicians and parents (not kids!)

«' I'm shutting down your school because you deserve better» doesn't go over well.

How will shutting down the school effect the personnel situation?

Leaders of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians have said they would shut down the school as a charter entity rather than accept a union.

If by shutting down a school you mean firing everyone and hiring entirely new staff for the next September, then perfect.

On Thursday, emergency officials reckoned with a storm that shut down schools for more than a million children, flooded roadways, filled homeless shelters and forced the cancellations of thousands of flights.

The caveat is that relinquishers have a special responsibility to shut down schools that fail and help schools that succeed grow as quickly as possible.

Shutting down a school is complicated and painful.

Instead of pouncing on Mr. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio might explain to voters why Barack Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to shut down a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that gives poor black and brown children access to private schools and, according to the Education Department's own evaluation, improves their chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

Mt. Lebanon scheduled a parents meeting the same day news broke of Bonds death from MRSA in Virginia, and that districts decision to shut down all its schools.

One key part of the New Orleans reforms was the idea that the state would shut down schools within three to five years if they did not generate a high enough School Performance Score, a measure based on test scores and graduation rates.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

Teachers» union president Randi Weingarten is plotting a teachers» strike to shut down schools in Puerto Rico, according to a conversation overheard Friday on a first - class Acela train heading to New York.

Weingarten's protest plan to shut down schools comes after she protested Puerto Rico's decision to close 238 schools last week in the aftermath of the devastation of Hurricane Maria.

In addition to early morning pickets at schools, the Chicago Teachers Union plans a full day of teach - ins and rallies at sites around the city during a one - day strike Friday that the union promises will shut down the schools, according to a preliminary schedule issued Monday.

Teachers» union president Randi Weingarten is plotting a teachers» strike to shut down schools in Puerto Rico, according to a conversation overheard Friday in the first - class car of an Acela train heading to New York.

States that receive waivers will still test students annually, but in September, their schools will no longer face the punitive measures outlined in No Child Left Behind, such as firing half a school's staff members, removing the principal or even shutting down a school altogether.

Since last Thursday, members of Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, an affiliate of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT), have shut down schools in Waukegan, Illinois in an ongoing strike.

The report was released as Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia continue to feel the aftershocks from teacher protests over low pay and cuts to school spending that shut down schools for days.

Based on the low levels of success in school turnarounds, it is probably better to just shut down the schools and districts and start over.

And while most education leaders say North Carolina isn't likely to see the kind of prolonged protests or picketing that forced school districts in Kentucky and Oklahoma to temporarily shut down schools this year, teaching leaders hope the gathering will be enough to galvanize state lawmakers, many of them Republicans who've clashed numerous times with educators over pay and K - 12 funding in recent years.

It's hard to understand why an organization with a long history of fighting white supremacists and protecting the civil rights of marginalized groups is trying to shut down schools that primarily serve low - income, African - American students.

So, one instance of improper use of funds could shut down a school.