Sentences with phrase «troubled school system»

The deeper the new financial control board dug, the more troubled the school system seemed.

The risk, of course, is that a newly elected school board will default to many of the same practices that produced one of the most troubled school systems in America prior to 2005, rife with corruption, instability and academic stagnation.

NJ Spotlight's John Mooney sat down with Sweeney in his Statehouse office on Friday and asked him where he stood on a host of key education issues, from school funding to vouchers to state takeovers of troubled school systems.

For years, high dropout rates have been treated as an isolated problem plaguing only certain troubled school systems.

Long - term teacher retention wasn't a priority at Success Prep when the school opened in 2009, part of a radical reconstruction of the city's long - troubled school system after Hurricane Katrina that involved opening dozens of new charter schools.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

Thus, in 2002, the Los Angeles union unseated a majority of the reform - minded board that had selected former Colorado governor Roy Romer to lead the city's troubled school system.

After Katrina, the city's troubled school system was fundamentally altered.

Previous mayors have had the luxury of distancing themselves from the city's troubled school system, hurling insults at school chancellors and school board members from the comfort of their podium at City Hall.

Daley, for one, realized the political risks inherent in taking over a troubled school system.

Washington, who recently graduated from Wilson Senior High School and will be attending Catholic University in the fall, says that Rhee and Fenty focused on the steps necessary to begin fixing a troubled schools system --- energy and accountability.

Cities with long - troubled school systems — think Newark and Camden just across the Hudson — have successfully partnered with public charters to offer opportunities to needy kids, particularly poor children of color.

Early Thursday morning the Senate approved a bill that grants NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio two more years of control of the city's troubled school system.