Since launching in 2009, the organization has been encouraging parents to
take over struggling schools by replacing staff or facilitating charter school conversions.
Schools face making more redundancies and multi-academy trusts will be hampered
from taking over struggling schools, education leaders have told Schools Week, as the implications of the government's...
Families for Excellent Schools has been more supportive of Mr. Cuomo's plan for education reform, which includes tying teacher tenure to test scores and beefing up already unpopular teacher evaluations, in addition to the plan
for taking over struggling schools.
It shows a mother, played by Gyllenhaal, leading parents
in taking over a struggling school where teachers have failed to teach her daughter to read, punched her and locked her in a closet.
Schools face making more redundancies and multi-academy trusts will be hampered
from taking over struggling schools, education leaders have told Schools Week, as the implications of the government's decision to delay the national funding formula surface.
Also singled out for criticism is the governor's push to make it easier for the state to
take over struggling schools.
The mayor asked Mr. Cuomo to extend mayoral control of city schools permanently — and said it made Mr. Cuomo's proposal for the state to
take over struggling schools and school districts unnecessary.
And now, the 24th Street parent organizers have convinced the district to partner with a local charter operator to
take over the struggling school; Tuesday parents get to vote on that.
As states weigh whether to allow parents to
take over struggling schools, reformers are still waiting for a successful trigger.
The case of John Madejski shows how difficult it is to find academy trusts willing to
take over struggling schools or academies.
A new law requires Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele to
take over struggling schools, but parents, students, teachers and community members are fighting back.
But over the coming years, America needs to find 5,000 high — energy, hero principals to
take over these struggling schools — and they will need a quarter of a million great teachers who are willing to do the toughest work in public education.