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Financial questions: How will the finances work for the company that is managing the first charter takeover of a public school district in Florida?

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Although state legislation authorizing mayoral control of the Buffalo Public Schools still lacks a Republican sponsor in the GOP - dominated Senate, that hasn't stopped city power brokers from quietly plotting what a takeover of the troubled district would look like.

Of the five states with laws authorizing state intervention in ailing public school districts, only New Jersey thus far has moved to the brink of a full takeoveOf the five states with laws authorizing state intervention in ailing public school districts, only New Jersey thus far has moved to the brink of a full takeoveof a full takeover.

Skim headlines from the press coverage of school districts undergoing state takeover and turnaround and you will find significant signs of public frustration.

Even public policy — notoriously glacial — responded to the decades of urban - district failure by creating chartering, recovery school districts, mayoral takeovers, and much more.

Indianapolis Public Schools has set a Thursday deadline for applications to the district's magnet schools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inSchools has set a Thursday deadline for applications to the district's magnet schools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inschools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families inschools subject to takeover has left families in limbo.

Their plan will gut Milwaukee Public Schools, the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin, by converting it to the same type of takeover district that has produced disastrous results in cities like Detroit and New Orleans.

For example, why is this neighborhood school advertising Great Public Schools Now's takeover of the district as just another parent choice?

State takeovers of districts and poor performing public schools were happening well before the public charters came into existence.

Board documents released in November indicate that Rocketship is considering using the Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) to takeover public schools in Nashville Tennessee by August of 2015.

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No school districts in Wisconsin will be considered eligible for a forced takeover program for schools that don't meet state academic standards, according to a letter the Department of Public Instruction sent Wednesday to the Milwaukee School Disschool districts in Wisconsin will be considered eligible for a forced takeover program for schools that don't meet state academic standards, according to a letter the Department of Public Instruction sent Wednesday to the Milwaukee School DisSchool District.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

TRENTON — In the latest move to empower school districts under state takeover, New Jersey's Board of Education voted Wednesday to return control over finances and personnel to Paterson Public Schools.

Contrast Grim's statements with the frustrations of the Indianapolis Public Schools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround eSchools leaders, who moved to authorize a lawsuit against the state over its intervention plans Thursday: While the district wants to fight the outright takeover of four other district schools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround eschools, the much - less - intrusive intervention at Washington means staff can more easily get on board with state - led turnaround efforts.

In one of the earliest examples of turnaround work nationally, CTAC provided assistance to the public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, during a time that included a state takeover of the district.

The loss will affect public - school districts in two ways: They will lose control of how they spend a portion of their federal funding (roughly $ 40 million statewide); and many could be declared failing and possibly subject to remedies as extreme as state takeover or replacement of most of the staff.

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.

Republican legislative leaders in Illinois on Wednesday proposed a state takeover of Chicago Public Schools and permitting the troubled district to declare bankruptcy to get its finances in order, billing the controversial ideas as a «lifeline» and not «a state bailout.»

The same politicians that continue to push for a state takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools conveniently leave out the fact that students in MPS are grossly underfunded when compared to students in surrounding suburban districts.