Sentences with phrase «turn around public education»

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He tells WBFO News now is the time to review every possibility in an effort to turn around failing city schools and refresh education for Buffalo's public school children.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

Steiner notes matter - of - factly that Black «lacks evidence of knowledge» in a host of «critical areas» confronting New York City's public schools, including education standards, curriculum and turning around low performing schools.

Rosendale native Metzger spoke of how her own childhood changed when her father lost his job, and how public education and college financial aid turned that around for her.

As part of the process, he and Senate Education Committee Chairman John Flanagan (R - Suffolk) are planning public hearings to grill the mayor and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña about their plans to turn around failing public schools.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

As the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top competition focuses new attention on what it takes to turn around failing public schools, New Orleans is proving that the job can be done.

Bennet had no background in public education, but he had spent time turning around failing companies for a local investment firm.

's coaching activities, the program's goal of developing «the public sector equivalent of «turn - around specialists»» demanded that it bring together doctoral - level professional education with high - potential executive education...

They primarily concern the fundamental complexity of turning around the behemoth of public education, as well as the amount of time, sophistication, multitasking, and sustained effort that's needed to cause it to deviate even a little from its traditional course.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Dating back to the 1970s, our state leaders attempted a series of ineffective initiatives to turn around one of the worst public - education systems in the country.

In any case, says Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, it takes more than a few vouchers or mayoral control to turn around a failing school system.

Leading up to the Senate Education Committee vote on April 28, the following groups turned in support for Click to add MIRS Bill Hound SB 0103 — the Michigan Association of School Administrators, Grand Rapids Public Schools, West Michigan Talent Triangle, the Michigan Association of School Boards, the National Heritage Academies, the South Central Education Policy Consortium, Michigan Association of Public School Academies, Great Lakes Education Project, Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, then - Dearborn Schools Superintendent Brian WHISTON and around 40 southeast Michigan school superintendents and Zimco and K - 12 Evaluation Solutions.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in TEducation Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Teducation funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

Turning around failing schools, high schools in particular, is one of the most intractable challenges in public education.

Less clear, though, is whether charter schools offer real, long - term solutions to fixing public education in America, or whether the Obama administration should be relying on them so heavily as a means of turning around the nation's record of academic mediocrity.

And it has helped bring together city officials, higher education, school officials, community organizations, county public health, and philanthropy to turn around attendance in Oakland schools.

«Pending approval from the State Board, these grants will strengthen our efforts to turn around our lowest - performing schools and ensure that we provide all students in New Jersey with a high - quality public education.»

We hope that we can continue to partner with the district in innovative ways to turn around low - performing schools — whether it's an equitable Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.&Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.&public education.»

«Large entrenched bureaucracies like public education have something in common with aircraft carriers: they never turn around quickly.

If NYC is to meet the Mayor's worthy goal of «ensuring no child in the City goes to a school that does not provide a high - quality education,» then it must develop a new strategy for turning around traditional public schools, which will always serve the majority of city students.

We need everyone who cares about public education to take on the toughest assignment of all and get in the business of turning around our lowest — performing schools.

If Secretary Duncan is irritated that so many people are now opposing the standards and the accompanying testing, he might want to learn that, in general, people do not like turning around and finding out that the entire basis upon which they thought their children's education rests has been changed without public discussion.

Indeed, the notion that education performance of public schools can be turned around by taking them over and converting them to charter schools or co-locating charters in their buildings is particularly unproven.

«You don't take a principal who has been successful with students in one school, ask him or her to go to a lower performing, troubled school with the idea of turning it around, and then say «and by the way, if you agree to take this on, you could end up taking a pay cut if you don't make it work in a time frame that we would like to have it work in,»» said Rep. Hugh Blackwell (R - Burke), a former member of the Burke County school board and a member of the House education committee in an interview with the Public School Forum.

With privilege comes opportunity and while no one should ever begrudge a parent for doing everything they can to ensure that their child or children get a quality education, it is relevant when a politician who says he is ready to «turn - around» Hartford's public schools won't enroll his own child in the public school system he claims that he will serve.

Eighteen years after California voters passed Proposition 227, «The English in Public Schools Statue,» voters have the opportunity to turn around one of its major provisions that creates barriers to bilingual education.

What evidence do we have that the CommPACT model (a reform model that is supported by the American Federation of Teachers - Connecticut, the Connecticut Education Association, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, the Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents, and the Connecticut Federation of School Administrators, in addition to UConn's Neag School of Education) is turning schools around?

Both NCLB and RttT institutionalized the destructive corporate education reform policies that are turning our public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories dedicated to «test prep» around a narrow curriculum, rather than a broad - based, comprehensive education the ensures every child is provided with the knowledge and skills they will need to live more fulfilling lives,

The so - called Parent Empowerment in Education Act (SB 1718) was framed as allowing parents at a public school to vote to «turn around» their school by employing several options, including charter conversion.

On the issue of public education he said, «We're turning around struggling schools by growing our Commissioner's Network, with funding for 17 more schools... We're continuing to broaden the range of educational opportunities by maintaining our support for magnet schools, agricultural - science schools, and other high - quality options, including funding for additional state charter schools.»