Sentences with phrase «takeover schools in»

School management company Charter Schools USA donated $ 1,500 to the Bennett campaign in February, several months after state education officials selected them to run four takeover schools in Indianapolis.

As Means and Abele target their Takeover schools in the coming weeks staffs in other buildings can learn a lot from the solidarity and organization of the Riverside staff.

State Board of Education members heard suggestions for the future of Arlington High School, a takeover school in Indianapolis, at a meeting Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Still, the takeover sends a message to directors of other companies that their jobs are in jeopardy if they lose sight of their commitment to shareholders, said B. Espen Eckbo, the founding director of the Center for Corporate Governance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

For example, Riley, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, presided over a collection of schools that furnished so many pastors for that region that he was able to engineer a temporary takeover of Minnesota's Baptist organization.

My understanding is that in Thailand, also, the takeover of the schools by the government did not displace their emphasis on Buddhist values.

Cuomo wants to make it easier for a takeover of failing schools and help parents of students in failing schools transfer their children to charters.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose access to increased school funding.

Governor Cuomo released a state budget plan that closes a $ 2 billion dollar gap, recommends a phased in state takeover of county health care costs, and offers an ultimatum to schools to accept a teacher evaluation program or lose increased school funding.

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.

Muslim school governors in Birmingham have been accused of plotting an Islamist takeover.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

Further, her call for a state takeover of far more of the cost of public schools may yet resonate with New Yorkers as they begin to feel the impact of cuts in staff and services to schools and local governments, experts said.

A former New York City schoolteacher, Cashin was tapped to run one of Bloomberg's 10 school districts in 2003, following his takeover of city schools.

Anti-reformers have trotted out the hoariest bugbear in New York politics — the evil of Wall Street — and constructed a hilarious lie: that the education reform movement is actually camouflage for a hostile takeover of the city's public schools.

Testifying on the fiscal 2016 budget in the state capital Wednesday, de Blasio pushed for making mayoral control of city schools permanent, rather than just extending it for three years, as sought by Cuomo — a move he argued would make state takeover of failing schools unnecessary.

J.H.S. 162 in the Bronx — the only public school threatened with a state takeover since the establishment of the receivership program — is caught in a power struggle between the governor and the state Education Department.

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In addition to a mayoral takeover, Lavine advocated for increased funding for charter schools.

F.E.S. recently held a rally in support of state takeover of failing schools.

State officials also are requiring the District to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case Education Commissioner John King doesn't approve the takeover plan by the University of Rochester.

State officials also are requiring the city to come up with a backup plan to phase out East High School in case the education commissioner doesn't approve the takeover plan by the U of R.

«The state's budget includes a $ 248 million increase in school aid, $ 212 million more for the state takeover of Medicaid, and $ 60 million in additional tax revenue — calling this significant increase a cut is disingenuous and the city should check its math.»

They give you a low grade on education and they think your takeover of the schools has been a flop,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute said in a statement.

Lavine in August outlined a plan for mayoral takeover of the schools.

Persistently struggling schools — given just one year to turn things around or risk an outside takeover — were promised $ 75 million in state funds over two years to implement turnaround plans.

For secondary schools if fewer than 40 per cent of pupils are achieving five GCSEs of grade C or above in subjects including English and maths that is the trigger for a takeover.

Cuomo also asked the Education Department for legislation to allow a state takeover of New York's 178 failing schools, based on a model used in Massachusetts.

He pointed to less money for upstate school districts and transportation during the brief Democratic takeover of the Senate following the 2009 «coup,» adding a repeat will result in «unacceptable» policies for western and upstate New York.

Speaking of which, The Faculty boasts nothing new in its parisitical alien takeover (Body Snatchers) of a small town high school, beginning with the teachers themselves.

The Nation's recent online learning expose, How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools, in its zeal to connect various dots into a narrative of a corporate public education takeover, makes critical errors.

At the time Akbar was acting head of Oldknow Academy in Small Heath, one of the Birmingham schools caught up in the Trojan Horse claims of takeover by groups promoting a hard - line Muslim agenda.

Even though we weren't looking to go national at that time, because we were really concentrating on the takeover of Locke High School, that just got very interesting in a hurry.

State interventions to improve struggling local school districts have a mixed record, but in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a state takeover seems to be turning things around.

They need real governance change in the form of state takeover, outsourcing of their schools (perhaps to a «recovery» district), and maybe even closing the district.

An alternative to mayoral takeovers is to change the way school boards are elected in the hopes of defusing the political machinations that often hinder reform.

Chamber president Barbara Lang says Rhee never thanked the chamber for testifying in favor of Mayor Fenty's takeover of the schools, legislation that will be pivotal to Rhee's success.

Maryland would have been the first state in the country to take over schools for NCLB restructuring, but Grasmick's efforts met with intense political opposition from Baltimore's mayor and other political leaders, and the state legislature passed a bill blocking the takeover.

States including California, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, and Nebraska have ruled out state takeovers for schools in restructuring, because either state law does not permit it or the state department of education lacks the capacity to manage a significant number of schools.

They culminate in possible closure, state takeover, privatization, or conversion to a charter school — controversial consequences highlighted in newspaper articles about the law.

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.

Instead of takeovers, closures, and other dire options mentioned in press coverage of the law, most states and school districts have chosen less aggressive interventions.

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 takeover.

I lived across the street from an elementary school that had resisted a charter school takeover and down the road from a middle school that had to close from lack of enrollment and was in the midst of being turned into luxury condos.

School districts in Washington that show consistently poor performance should be subject to state takeover, monetary penalties, or other consequences, concludes a state panel established to devise a system of accountability for the state's schools.

Four years earlier, the state had been considering a takeover because Union City failed in forty of fifty - two indicators of school effectiveness.

«It sounded as though Wells was calling out his employers in public, proposing a Green Dot takeover of the school — and committing professional suicide.»

Donna Foote, in her book on Locke written a few years before the takeover, focuses on four teachers who came through Teach For America (TFA), which had sent a good number of young teachers to the school.

A study published in 2005 by the Education Commission of the States (ECS) on state takeovers of schools and districts noted that the takeovers «have yet to produce dramatic consistent increases in student performance,» and that the impact on learning «falls short of expectations.»

In most cities with a failing school system the mayor faces a great dilemma: Do nothing, which is often all a mayor is legally empowered to do, or do everything, meaning mayoral takeover.