Sentences with phrase «state recovery school district»

At this point, Lewis is being called upon to do nothing short of bringing the city back together, 10 years after the state Recovery School District took over four fifths of the city's schools.

Standardized test results form the backbone of the school performance scores that determine whether a school can be taken over by the state Recovery School District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stay open.

Most are overseen by the state Recovery School District, and Lewis wants them back.

The plaintiffs said the school system did not follow teacher tenure law in the layoffs, and that they should have been systematically rehired as schools reopened, either in the Orleans system, in the state Recovery School District or as charters.

After Katrina, the state Recovery School District took control of the city's schools, many of which were failing.

Not exact matches

One enables school districts to use reserve funds for Sandy recovery expenses; another gives municipalities an additional year to repay state - fund advances.

In Louisiana, the state takes over the worst schools and puts them into its Recovery School District.

Although some education reforms like the development of the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posSchool District (RSD) began before Hurricane Katrina, the storm fueled the development of new mandates and forced a redefininition of the school system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as posschool system in an effort to reopen schools as quickly as possible.

We're not building schools for the OPSB [Orleans Parish School Board], we're not building schools for the RSD [the state - run Recovery School District], nor are we building schools for charters.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

They need real governance change in the form of state takeover, outsourcing of their schools (perhaps to a «recovery» district), and maybe even closing the district.

There, state law allows e-schools that are designated as drop - out prevention and recovery schools and are sponsored by a local school district to avoid some of Ohio's accountability requirements, including mandatory closure for persistent low performance and accountability for the sponsoring district.

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.

Louisiana state Superintendent of Education Paul G. Pastorek announced on May 4 that Mr. Vallas had agreed to serve as the superintendent of the Recovery School District.

Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.

Looking forward, the 2010 — 11 and 2011 — 12 school years pack a one - two punch, with school district leaders facing the end of ARRA dollars and answering tough questions about programs and personnel that have been (and will be) cut, while trying to figure out what, if any, economic recovery is in store at the state and local levels.

Louisiana has decided that all New Orleans charter schools now overseen by the state's Recovery School District will be placed under the control of the local school School District will be placed under the control of the local school school board.

Researchers at the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University also found that conditions at campuses in the state - run Recovery School District...

In New Orleans, the state board of education and its Recovery School District (RSD) oversee most of the schools; Congress created the appointed D.C. Public Charter School Board; and in Camden the state is in charge.

In January 2006, the state announced that it was seeking charter operators for the 38 Recovery District schools that were not too damaged to open in the 2006 — 07 school year.

After Hurricane Katrina struck, he championed plans for the state to take over most of the schools in New Orleans under the Recovery School District, which oversees 37 schools now operating in the city, including some charters.

The only state - led reform that shows real promise, in my view, is Louisiana's Recovery School District and, possibly, its clone in Tennessee.

When the state legislature swept 107 schools into the expanded Recovery School District, it nullified the collective bargaining agreement between the Orleans Parish School Board and the union at those schools.

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.

With the U.S. economy trying to crawl back to recovery, an unemployment rate above 8 percent, and state and local governments facing the prospect of insolvency, many school districts have found it necessary to cut expenditures and personnel.

The 2005 legislation that designated New Orleans a district in crisis and placed more of its failing schools under state control gave the RSD five years to achieve recovery.

Those schools were made part of a «Recovery School District,» run by the state but eligible to become charters if they wished.

In doing so, education leaders must also decide whether to transfer the schools to the state - run Recovery School District, which took over most of the public schools in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

But concerns persist about the recovery's pace and stability even as states and school districts...

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

The 15th edition of this benchmark annual report explores lingering concerns about the recovery's pace and stability even as states and school districts seek to rebuild their budgets.

While the state - run Recovery School District created in 2003 has its share of critics, credible external evaluation suggest that test scores and graduation rates have indeed improved under the districtwide takeover by charter schools.

Local school districts typically struggle to make up for major state funding cuts on their own, so the cuts have led to job losses, deepening the recession and slowing the economy's recovery.

In the case of the Recovery School District in Louisiana, there was a period of strong gains in state test scores to buttress this belief.

Prior to being named State Superintendent, White served as Superintendent of the Louisiana Recovery School District, overseeing the nation's first system of publicly - funded charter and non-public schools in New Orleans and launching the Baton Rouge Achievement Zone to replicate successes in New Orleans.

One prototype is the all - charter, state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans, which was created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

The Orleans Parish school board and the state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans have announced plans to open an Early Childhood and Family Learning Center at an elementary school in the storm - batteredschool board and the state - run Recovery School District in New Orleans have announced plans to open an Early Childhood and Family Learning Center at an elementary school in the storm - batteredSchool District in New Orleans have announced plans to open an Early Childhood and Family Learning Center at an elementary school in the storm - batteredschool in the storm - battered city.

More than one hundred low - performing schools were placed under the jurisdiction of Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD), which was created in 2003 to take over and reverse the fortunes of chronically disappointing public schools throughout the state.

With its state - run Recovery School District in place since 2005 to intervene in low - performing schools, Louisiana also has more experience at intervening in large numbers of schools than most other states.

Originally envisioned to resemble the Recovery School District reform initiative in New Orleans and Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, the Commissioner's Network hasn't been as well received by Parent Power advocates in the state as Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor would like.

School accountability legislation that placed failing schools under the control of a separate, state - level governing entity, the Recovery School District;

As a model for the Memphis efforts, district, charter, and state leaders are looking down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where the state - run Recovery School District has converted most of the public schools in the city to charterdistrict, charter, and state leaders are looking down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where the state - run Recovery School District has converted most of the public schools in the city to charterDistrict has converted most of the public schools in the city to charter status.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Examples of OESE guidance documents being withdrawn include those relating to the 1994 amendments to the ESEA (Cross-Cutting Guidance to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act), to long ago appropriations (Guidance on the FY 2000 Appropriation for School Improvement), to grant programs that no longer exist (Gulf Coast Recovery Grant Initiative), and to policy letters to States under NCLB (NCLB Policy Letters to States — Use of Funds for Districts and Schools Identified for School Improvement).

Two unique opportunities exist within ESSA for states to utilize funding that would have gone to districts under past federal formulas, but can now be used for specific programs or purposes like personalized learning, credit recovery, or programs that support school leaders or principals.

That opened the door for alternative forms of public education, such as charter schools that shifted control from the Orleans Parish School Board into the hands of parents and a state agency, the Recovery School District.

She also served in both the human capital and charter school offices at the Louisiana Department of Education and Recovery School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the school offices at the Louisiana Department of Education and Recovery School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the School District, where she created and implemented policies to improve the quality of public education across the state.

Another Malloy proposal — a state takeover of the worst failure mills through the creation of a special district modeled off of the successful Recovery School District in New Orleans — wouldn't happen until the 2013 - 3014 schodistrict modeled off of the successful Recovery School District in New Orleans — wouldn't happen until the 2013 - 3014 schoolSchool District in New Orleans — wouldn't happen until the 2013 - 3014 schoDistrict in New Orleans — wouldn't happen until the 2013 - 3014 schoolschool year.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of New Orleans teachers were summarily dismissed after the Louisiana Legislature voted to turn over all but a handful of the city's schools to the state - run Recovery School District.

Test scores for students in Louisiana's state - run Recovery School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in thDistrict, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the school district in thdistrict in the state.