Sentences with phrase «struggling school system»

Everything was on the up, a welcome change for a school once considered the worst of the worst in a notoriously struggling school system.

Blackwell said this week that lawmakers, as they consider a major facelift for the state's funding allocation system, will have to balance local district flexibility with maintaining accountability for struggling school systems.

Since 2010, when lawmakers doubled the number of charter school openings in struggling school systems, enrollment has climbed from around 28,000 to more than 33,000 in 77 schools.

He was one of may non-educators around the nation that were being brought in to oversee struggling school systems.

``... many struggling school systems have made little progress under rules that emphasize testing without investing.»

Deal said the decades - long feud has also had a perverse psychological effect on struggling school systems: It gives administrators who don't get their full allotment «an excuse for failing to do what you should do with the number that you received.»

DPI provides a great deal of support for rural schools systems that are poor and often struggling school systems.»

As Andy Rotherham recently pointed out in the Washington Post, school choice is «not a panacea» for struggling school systems.

Some of those leading the charge for his dismissal are Paladino foes — including teacher unions — who have sparred with him on how to best reform Buffalo's struggling school system, suggesting calls for his removal also are political.

Her testimony followed that of Buffalo Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash, who testified earlier Monday that settling the teacher contract was necessary to execute his plan for turning around the struggling school system.

In 2007, when Kaya Henderson, current chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, was deputy chancellor, the struggling school system came under mayoral control.

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

It is putting up $ 15.5 million to strengthen California's district - improvement plan and to provide more assistance to struggling school systems, in part through the deployment of intervention teams to 15 districts.

Having served as New Jersey's Commissioner of Education from 2011 to 2014, I have had an inside view into efforts to improve Newark's struggling school system.

Overall, while the board made decisions for the 2013 - 2014 school year assuming the school district would open this coming fall, the future of the district depends on whether or not higher ups decide to dissolve the struggling school system.

Chicago's current landscape — a starkly segregated city, high rates of poverty and violence, and an underfunded and struggling school system — expose far too many of our students to deeply distressing experiences every day.

But she warned against focusing too narrowly on academic results, saying the model had done wonders to revive a struggling school system.

In Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty has won approval from the City Council and the U.S. Congress to assume control of the struggling school system.

Last fall, voters in Halifax agreed to a new supplemental tax geared toward bankrolling marginal improvements in the county's struggling school system.