Sentences with phrase «state takeovers of schools»

The reasons for what amounts to a partial state takeover of the school district, such as woeful student performance and mismanagement, reflected trends and problems going back several decades.

«The history of state takeovers of schools is a history of failure,» Alford said.

She called the legislature into special session and requested authorization for state takeover of schools in New Orleans.

Fact, state takeovers of school districts do not yield improvements in student achievement; rather, more often than not, student achievement is stagnated during the short term and delayed over the long term.

The «program improvement» provisions, which some educators feared could lead to state takeovers of schools, were among the last issues to be resolved by the conference committee.

Iowa has joined the ranks of states considering mandatory consolidation or state takeover of school districts that are unable to meet minimum educational standards, including broad curriculum offerings, incentives for teachers, and school - business partnerships.

In a dig at mayoral and state takeovers of schools, delegates to the National School Boards Association's annual meeting in Chicago last week passed a resolution opposing any efforts to remove locally elected school boards.

A state takeover of schools only reduces the community's ability to have a say at the school board because private institutions are under zero obligation to provide a forum to listen to parents» concerns.

Some schools that fall short aren't will have to take steps toward improvement, which could include a total restructuring of the staff or a private or state takeover of the school.

The report raises concerns that state takeovers of schools and districts are enabling the privatization of our nation's education system by removing local institutions from the control of elected school boards and instead turning them over to outside charter school operators despite strong local opposition.

Without the agreement, Houston would likely be forced to close campuses or submit to a state takeover of the school board because of failure to improve academics at the schools.

The CEO of Edison Schools describes the positive effects of a state takeover of the School District of Philadelphia.

Another reform would allow a majority of the parents at a failing school to vote to trigger a state takeover of that school.

But Detroiters are angry about the state takeover of the school system, as Deanna Williams, a student at Eastern Michigan University who recently graduated from Detroit Public Schools, expressed.

We know that austerity, incessant testing regimes to rate and rank schools and state takeovers of schools and districts are intentional strategies to undermine public support for public schools, to facilitate the transfer of tax dollars to privatized schools, and to disenfranchise parents, educators and communities.