Sentences with phrase «take over failing schools as»

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

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Glick argued that the state didn't try to take over schools in New York City during the 12 - year Bloomberg administration, even though some of the same schools that the governor calls «failing» now were struggling under the former mayor's leadership, as well.

The approved 2015 - 16 state budget includes a program for struggling or «failing» schools to be taken over by a state monitor, with the schools potentially re-opening as charter schools.

The New Coalition Academy is a column in Private Eye that depicts the UK coalition government led by David Cameron and Nick Clegg [1] as if they were in fact taking over a failing school.

Following both as they team up and try to rally enough parents to take over the school and turn things around, the film becomes a sort of mums - on - a-mission movie, with Jamie and Nona leading the fight to free their government - failed children from the tyranny of the teaching unions once and for all.

A charter approved as part of the district's small - schools reform plan, Carver took over a failing high school in a poor neighborhood on the edge of the city.

The restructuring options prescribed by law include strong measures, such as turning failing schools into charter schools or allowing the state to take them over.

Gov. Bruce Rauner supports an elected seven - member school board but only as part of a GOP - introduced bill that would allow the state to take over CPS if it is deemed to be failing financially.

Now schools labeled as «failing» because of low test scores may become charter schools, in which they could be taken over by business people in an effort to improve test scores.

Districts can also be taken over if they are rated as failing by the state for two consecutive school years or if there is a pattern of ``

Districts can also be taken over if they are rated as failing by the state for two consecutive school years or if there is a pattern of «poor student performance.»

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

You get schools to «fail» by setting up ridiculous benchmarks (such as «No Child Left Behind» and now «Common Core»); and then when the school has failed, you take it out of local control and turn it over to charter school companies and other «reformers.»

In a few isolated cases, failing schools were taken over by charter organizations, such as Green Dot in L.A. and Mastery Charters in Philadelphia.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

«As one of Superintendent Cortines's first moves, it's a sign that the district will be respectful of the law,» Ben Austin, founder of the group that helps parents organize and enact the take - over of a failing campus, told LA School Report.

The State Department of Education took over Windham Schools because of a widening «achievement gap» between white and Hispanic students, and because the fiscal situation of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the Schools because of a widening «achievement gap» between white and Hispanic students, and because the fiscal situation of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the schools was far from healthy, as lean annual budgets failed to meet the real needs of the system.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application failed to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.

The lack of data also played a notable role in the drama over 20th Street Elementary School, when LA Unified rejected a parent petition to take over the failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, asserting that no California school qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be faSchool, when LA Unified rejected a parent petition to take over the failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, asserting that no California school qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be faschool in South Central Los Angeles, asserting that no California school qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be faschool qualifies as failing under the state «parent trigger» law precisely because data no longer exist, meaning no school could be faschool could be failing.

But as tens of millions of public funds are diverted to this lucky company, the most interesting development of all may well be that while Jumoke / FUSE Inc. claims to be focused on operating schools in Connecticut, their Booker T. Washington application fails to mention that just a few months ago, Jumoke / FUSE Inc. was able to get a contract from the Louisiana Recovery School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school School District in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to take over a school school there.

Under a radical new California law, if over 50 percent of parents at any chronically failing school (as designated by the state) sign a Trigger petition, they are allowed to take over the school, and try to shake it from the shackles that have kept it among California's worst.

FUSE was created in 2012 as a management company that used public and private money to take over failing, inner - city public schools and operate them as public charter schools.

The Malloy Administration wanted to take over the Bridgeport schools as well, but because they actually failed to follow a provision of the existing law, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned their attempt and they will now have to go back and actually do it in a legal way.