Sentences with phrase «transforming failing district»

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

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Tennessee's Achievement School District is modeled after an effort to transform New Orleans» failing schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged the city back in 2005.

Hall County has been quietly transforming its schools into district - run charters, but not in the headline - catching fashion of places like New Orleans, where charters often grew atop failing public schools and came with wholesale staffing changes.

Palm Lane parents, disheartened by the school's abysmal academic record [1] and the governing district's resistance to change, sought relief by attempting to exercise the Parent Trigger Law, an option that enables them to petition the school district to transform the failing institution into a newly created public charter school.

«In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision,» said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, «the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools.»

Today, Doreen and Bartola personify why the law was written: they were leaders in using it to become the first parents in California to successfully transform their neighborhood school — which had been state - identified as failing for years, having the lowest academic performance record in the entire Adelanto School District.