Sentences with phrase «students at failing schools»

Applying Democracy Prep's rigorous and structured model to the students at these failing schools and garnering vastly different results is proof that the Democracy Prep model works and that all students are capable of achieving academic success.

The New Orleans Advocate: Louisiana Scholarship Program accepts applications from students at failing schools http://bit.ly/2klS77g

According to the Arizona Republic, «Ducey said he supports allowing students at failing schools to use the per - student assistance the state provides at a private school of their choice.»

Giving students at failing schools a choice among other schools in their district simply shuffled children around the city.

Not exact matches

«If the legislature fails to act and we are forced to proceed with these cuts... student - athletes across the state at those schools will be ineligible to play next semester,» Edwards said Thursday.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

Students at the Henry S. West Laboratory School, a public K - 8 in Coral Gables, will no longer be graded on homework or penalized for failing to finish it.

You see, students who haven't developed effective homework habits tend to lack the motivation to study, misunderstand how to study, and fail to see the long - term benefits of putting forth an effort at home and at school.

The NYC Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office.

The city Department of Education is failing miserably at caring for homeless students in public schools, according to an audit released on Thursday.

Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

Also at 10:30 a.m., parents of student plaintiffs will gather in front of the NYC Department of Education's headquarters at Tweed Courthouse to announce the filing of an historic class action lawsuit for failing to protect students against violence at school, Manhattan.

The Hempstead Union Free School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuSchool District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuschool year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.

Some 220 students at Ark Community Charter School in Troy may be displaced if final court proceedings affirm a SUNY Trustees Charter Schools Committee decision that agreed with findings by SUNY's Charter Schools Institute that Ark failed to meet its academic goals.

Wow, a black mother sends her son to a private school rather than to a school in Hackney (which at the time, I recall, had a reputation for failing black, male students).

A new analysis from StudentsFirstNY found that at 75 city schools this year, all the students in at least one grade failed the state math or reading test.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty linAt 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty linat grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

«By packing schools with struggling students, the DOE has not only set us up to fail, they have pushed us towards failure,» said Jorel Moore, 17, a senior at Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane HS, one of the closing schools.

A program at one Richardson middle school in 2005 and 2006 helped one - third of the students who had failed the state math assessment the previous year pass the test the next spring.

Indeed, as of September 2002, at least five states had the mistaken impression that they need not meet a key requirement of NCLB for the present school year: to provide tutoring and other supplemental services for students in failing schools.

«Students absolutely have solutions that can be implemented,» says Lauren Popkoff, who teaches history at Brooklyn College Academy, an alternative school for students — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofStudents absolutely have solutions that can be implemented,» says Lauren Popkoff, who teaches history at Brooklyn College Academy, an alternative school for students — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofstudents — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofstudents — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out of school.

An evaluation of A-Plus can reveal whether the prospect of competition, in the form of vouchers offered to students at chronically failing schools, represents an effective incentive for improvement.

Often, the difference between a student graduating and going to college and a student not finishing school or going on to college is the relationship that student has with just one adult at school who knows him or her well, believes in the student's ability to succeed, and will not let him or her fail.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

For example, if an academy fails to safeguard adequately the school's pupils at risk of harm, the result could cause significant damage to an academy's reputation and pose possible problems in the future recruitment of students.

The students at a previously failing school have made big gains since all of their teachers started using these strategies every day.

The typical school at risk of receiving a Low - Performing rating was large and had a majority nonwhite population, with many students who had previously failed an 8th - grade exam.

So there is an issue: traditional ways of organising and delivering school education are sometimes failing students at both ends of the achievement spectrum.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

The study also included surveys and interviews with 115 displaced students in which 25 percent reported being mistreated by youths or adults at new schools, blamed on the stigma of coming from a failed school.

Now more than a decade old, at various times the school tried consensus - based governance and failed, struggled to get teachers to collaborate on instructional strategies, and butted heads over race and student favoritism.

Three educators, recognized for their efforts to integrate technology into schools or to raise academic achievement for students deemed at risk of failing, were awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr..

But many schools fail to provide students with such opportunities at a moment in history when the need has never been greater.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

A question of particular interest was whether schools that failed to make AYP in the previous school year responded strongly to the incentive to target instruction to students at risk of falling just short of the proficiency threshold.

When Florida threatened to offer vouchers to students at chronically failing public schools, those schools made significant gains.

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

Applying that criterion puts schools serving the disadvantaged at risk of being said to «fail,» even if they are doing a fine job of enhancing the skills of their students.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

(Moskowitz and Kittredge define a «persistently failing school» as one in which 10 percent or fewer of the students are proficient in reading and math — or, in the case of high schools, where the same percentage or lower is testing at college - ready levels.)

Even students in private schools, despite hailing from more socioeconomically advantaged homes and in some cases being selectively admitted by schools, fail miserably at attaining NAEP proficiency.

Discovering thousands of high schools with graduation rates under 60 percent threw his beliefs about American education into sharp relief — our current system is failing to support all students to learn at the levels they need and deserve.

With nearly every school failing to bring all of its students up to full proficiency, nearly every school was theoretically at risk of reconstitution.

Coverage was narrowed to only three districts: St. Louis, Kansas City, and Wellston, potentially reaching about 8,000 poor and at - risk students in failing schools.

Most of the students he was speaking to at Livingston Middle School in New Orleans were 8th graders who have failed at least twice.