Sentences with phrase «troubled schools»

The emergence of a thriving charter system has altered the dynamics of education in a city struggling to repair its reputation as one of the country's most troubled school districts.

The choice movement has to this point largely aimed to help students in urban areas find alternatives to troubled school districts.

To be sure, spending more in troubled schools won't automatically lead to better student outcomes.

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

On the first score, ED determined the state hadn't implemented sufficient interventions for troubled schools and wasn't adequately monitoring implementation of content standards and educator evaluations.

The trust says it has deliberately taken on troubled schools where improvement «takes more than a few terms to achieve» and has made «remarkable steps forward» in a short time.

The program's founders saw the arts as key to boosting student achievement and improving troubled schools.

The document addresses school ratings, student report cards and other ways to identify and help troubled schools.

This is one reason nearly 30 percent of principals who lead troubled schools quit every year.

In fact, the most troubled schools typically serve students with the greatest needs.

Further, research shows that troubled schools require mature, competent, dedicated teachers able to connect with at - risk students.

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Even if teaching, leadership, incentives and cultures in our most troubled schools improved exponentially overnight, we would move the needle on the achievement gap only slightly.

And community discussions, he says, must acknowledge that even in troubled schools, good things are happening and there are gifted teachers.

It helped raise test scores, showed that tough love for troubled schools has benefits, and more.

There are virtually no documented instances of troubled schools being turned around without intervention by talented leaders.

Attempts to send highly effective teachers into troubled schools through higher salaries and bonuses have generally failed.

Less than a month into their legislative session, Florida lawmakers are knee - deep in debate over a plan to provide taxpayer - financed tuition vouchers to students in the state's most academically troubled schools.

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It sought to prevent financially troubled school districts from authorizing charter schools to operate in other school districts that haven't approved them.

New York officials also propose to expand the state's powers to intervene in the most chronically underperforming schools, and authorize the direct management of troubled schools by education management organizations.

After Tuck took over some of LA's most troubled schools as CEO of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, «about half of his teachers received layoff notices because of the system's seniority based layoff system, which protects older teachers regardless of job performance.»

Also, while Gov. Malloy may support a lot of troubling school reforms, the State of Connecticut seems to have looked out for its special needs school population and early childhood education.

A group of students demanded a meeting with him to lobby against closing troubled schools.

Cuomo is tying most of his $ 1.1 billion proposed increase for education aid to enacting his education reforms, which include strengthening charter schools and forming a more rigorous teacher evaluation criteria while also making it easier for the state to takeover troubled schools.

States may do an imperfect job of flagging troubled schools, but it's now clear that Washington is no better at this work.

He said: «When we set up our multi-academy trust in 2012 we deliberately took on troubled schools working in challenging circumstances.

The NPR team quickly rejects the idea that sprinkling more dollars over troubled schools will magically improve test scores.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomowants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

Many educators counter that New Jersey's schools, in the aggregate, are among the highest - performing in the country, even though there are pockets of chronically troubled schools with dismal test scores and low graduation rates.

Two years ago, Emeryville's neighbor Oakland, a larger, more troubled school district, adopted the model, turning 27 neighborhood schools into community hubs by adding afterschool programs, asthma - mobiles, farmer's markets, adult literacy classes and free Dad's clubs.

«When we set up our multi-academy trust in 2012 we deliberately took on troubled schools working in challenging circumstances.

Starbucks, for instance, is plowing much of the money from its program into nonprofits that are assisting troubled schools, for instance.

After the deadly stabbing in a Bronx high school that left one student dead and another injured, Malliotakis called for plain clothes police officers to patrol troubled schools, as well as adding metal detectors.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

But there is no apparent evidence that these controversies and disputes have been mitigating factors for interest in Success schools among parents, especially in areas of the city with historically troubled schools, nor for interest in a Success school on Staten Island.

The length of the governor's emergency plan also troubled school advocates, who said that the extender, which effectively freezes funding at last year's levels, added a troubling wrinkle to the budgeting process of districts.

He supports more money going into troubled schools like Lafayette and Bennett to turn them around.

Murphy had previously served as Hartford Federation of Teachers (HFT) president from 1978 to 1986, a conflict - ridden period marked by troubled school performance.

Since the state seized control of the city's troubled schools last December, Pennsylvania's plan to yield a number of them to for - profit EMOs has made front - page news and has drawn intense scrutiny from students, parent groups, and teacher unions.

But the announcement troubled some school board members, who weren't told about it in advance and who were skeptical about the prospect of a speedy end to federal court oversight.

In this time of desperately troubled schools, now comes the school district of Milwaukee with its contribution to school reform: the separate school for black male students.

Capacity builders trust troubled school districts to reform themselves from within, not noticing that it is typically new organizations that in other sectors generate breakthrough improvements.

The usual complaints about narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test surfaced, as did the question of allocating resources away from already troubled schools.

They could then pursue extra money by mentoring troubled schools.

City schools chief Sonja Santelises and her staff decided to pair Rodman and two other troubled schools with Commodore John Rodgers Elementary / Middle in East Baltimore, regarded as one of the system's best.