Sentences with phrase «to take over failing schools»

First, charters might take over failing schools in which disadvantaged students are concentrated, and succeed where other approaches have not.

The parent group, known as the 20th Street Parents Union, has been supported by Parent Revolution, a nonprofit group that helps parents take over failing schools through the state's Parent Empowerment Act — known as the «parent trigger» — which allows parents to enact changes at a school if a majority of them sign a petition.

If the state takes over failing schools, they can be turned into charters by the State Education Department.

«I can only think of a couple of charters that have ever taken over a failing school,» said Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at N.Y.U.'s Steinhardt School of Education.

This means it will be enmeshed in other issues such as charters, common core, teacher evaluations, governor ability to take over failing schools ad infinitum.

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.

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.

So, we went back to our study of the beliefs, actions and impacts of 411 Head Teachers after taking over a failing school and, found that 90 % of the best long - term Heads, who we call Architects, were almost fired at the end of their second year.

The trailer for the movie, which opens in September, shows a mother, played by Gyllenhaal, leading parents in taking over a failing school where teachers have failed to teach her daughter to read, punched her and locked her in a closet.

Parent Revolution, the California outfit that helped bring that state's Parent Power law into reality, views it as a form of collective bargaining for families; this reflects the organization's roots in the work of Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr to help families in Los Angeles take over failing schools.

A long - running squabble over a pension deficit has seriously delayed a major multi-academy trust from taking over a failing school.

When the Recovery School District takes over a failing school, responsibility and maintenance of that school's campus goes with it.

Louisiana created the state - run Recovery School District to take over failing schools shortly before Katrina.

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.

Heads who take over failing schools have long complained that they risk their careers by doing so.

In fits and starts, and with some backward movement, Louisiana began overhauling its community college system, increased teacher pay, rolled out new K - 12 testing regimes and eventually took over failing schools, closing some and turning others into charters.

Rocketship announced plans this week that it intends to take over a failing school in Nashville Tennessee in addition to opening new...

The parent trigger measure quickly evolved into a contentious battle over letting parents take over failing schools, with Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich taking the lead in fighting against it.

Other points — rejiggering the teacher evaluation process, taking over failing schools — are more contentious.

Cuomo's education plan includes revamping the state's teacher evaluation system, increasing the charter school cap, approving the education investment tax credit and DREAM Act and allowing outside entities to take over failing schools.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

However, it is also a great challenge, perhaps an even greater challenge, to take over a failing school and turn it around.

Included among the proposed reforms is a teacher evaluation system based half on student test scores, an increase in the length of time before a teacher is eligible for tenure and allowing the state to take over failing schools and districts.

The narrative allows the filmmakers to avoid the frank but controversial reality that the parent trigger will most often be used to bring in new operators to take over failing schools.

According to analysis of regional school commissioner (RSC) data, there are not enough sponsors ready to take over failing schools in the north.

In 2003, the Louisiana Department of Education (DOE) created the state - run Recovery School District (RSD) and empowered it to take over failing schools.

The ceremony also marked a healing of sorts among divided parents who had twice moved to use a «parent trigger,» a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

Heads with proven records at schools or academies, overseen by centrally appointed regulators, will have the power to take over failing schools.

Finally, in a number of cities and states — Alabama, Tennessee, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Baltimore — affiliates of the NEA (National Education Association) and AFT (American Federation of Teachers) have taken over failing schools

To create a process by which the community can provide input into the selection of school providers to open new schools or to take over failing schools.

Serious reform efforts actually began on a small scale that year, when the Louisiana legislature created the Recovery School District (RSD) to take over failing schools.

But this past July, parents with the help of Parent Revolution used the Parent Trigger law to take over a failing school in Desert Trails, which Simone Wilson wrote about in the post» «Parent Trigger» Scores First - Ever Victory in Desert Springs.»

International School The announcement also provides some insight into the options open to the International School of Louisiana, which has applied to the Recovery School District to take over a failing school.

Ben Boychuk and Julie Cavanagh debate new legislative efforts that enable parents to take over failing schools

The Parent Trigger law allows parents to take over a failing school and force a complete overhaul, as long as half of parents sign off.

The movie's subject matter revolves around education reform and a thing called the Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school.

Los Angeles Unified School District will finally become a target of a Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school in which their children attend, according to L.A. School Report.

In October, Einstein school officials were encouraged to apply for an i3 grant, federal funding that would help the school expand to a charter management organization and take over a failing school.

He has already outlined plans to do away with teacher tenure and set up a performance - based review system for teachers, create a merit pay system and allow private, for - profit companies to take over failing schools.

In arguing last week for a constitutional amendment granting the governor sweeping new powers to take over failing schools, legislators said they could not stand by and let children languish in underperforming schools

Gov. Nathan Deal is proposing a new state school district that would take over failing schools and, possibly, convert them into charter schools.

The protestors oppose the «parent trigger» laws that inspired the events of the film, through which parents can take over a failing school and possibly turn it into a charter school.

The decision to allow charter networks to take over failing schools was a quick fix for the District and way to save money.