Sentences with phrase «something about failing schools»

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The time is now for the State Legislature to act and do something about this problem so we no longer are condemning our children to failing schools.»

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

«The job of, say, taking on a school in special measures in a very challenging community is very different to that of running a grammar school, and the DNA argument, that there's something about grammar schools that you can just transplant into a failing school, does not stack up,» he said.

There's definitely something very fishy about why Vallas turned to UConn's NEAG School to undertake his phony «leadership program» that barely qualifies as even an independent study course and clearly fails to meet the statutory provision that was written to exempt him from the certification requirements hat all other superintendents must fulfill.

But there's a hollow ring to the name, given the failure of lawmakers to put in place any requirements that states actually do something about schools that consistently fail to help their students achieve.

It's only now that Pryor's failings are creating heavy drag for Malloy's reelection that the fixers and operators have at last decided to make Pryor do something about the various shenanigans attendant to school reform in Connecticut.

They fail to mention that their hero, Dannel Malloy, was an initial sponsor and plaintiff of the CCJEF lawsuit when he was Mayor of Stamford but turned tail when he became governor and actually had chance to do something about the way Connecticut's public schools are funded.

Shocked by her firsthand experience of the city's failing public schools, the author put her career on the line to do something about the problem.