Sentences with phrase «take over failing schools under»

The ASD has also authorized Rocketship and KIPP charter schools to take over failing schools under the state's authority, but neither will do so for the 2015 - 16 school year.

Not exact matches

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.

Under the California law, if 51 % of parents in a failing school sign a petition, they can trigger a forcible transformation of the school — either by inviting a charter operator to take over, by forcing certain administrative changes or by shutting it down outright.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust.

Under Malloy's proposed «Commissioner's Network» system, the commissioner of education will take over 25 failing schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining, turn the schools over to a third party and that entity will then be legally exempt from the state's laws requiring competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of outside consultants.

Parent Trigger is a new law, barely passed through the state Legislature under former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in January, that allows 51 percent of any failing public school's parents to take over the school in one of four ways.

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.

LA Unified has rejected a parent petition to take over a failing elementary school in South Central Los Angeles, reversing district policy and essentially asserting that no California school qualifies under the state «parent trigger» law.

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.

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.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body.