Sentences with phrase «turn failing public schools»

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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.

Almost half of city residents polled said the mayor «failed in his goal» to turn the city's public schools around.

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 sSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña about their plans to turn around failing public schoolsschools.

Skandera's time in New Mexico began with the 2010 election of Governor Susana Martinez, a Republi - can whose campaign promises included turning around failing public schools.

Michael Bennet, selected as superintendent of the Denver Public Schools in 2005, had previously turned around failing companies for a local investment firm.

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.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

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.

It provided fairer funding for existing public charter school students, cleared the way for more new public charter schools to open across the state and created a Commissioner's Network to turn around chronically failing public schools.

As a part of negotiations, Superintendent John Deasy modified the original Public School Choice (PSC) program, which had allowed outside operators like charters to submit bids to turn around failing LAUSD schools.

That pubic school portability provisions might lead to private school vouchers is bolstered by the fact that there have been several failed attempts in the recent Congressional sessions to turn Title I funding into a private school voucher by making the funds portable to both public and private schools.

The Locke takeover served as the model for L.A. Unified's Public School Choice initiative, in which new schools and some failing schools were turned over to outside groups that filed the most promising applications.

Low - performing public schools would be turned into charters and funding would be cut off for failing private schools under school accountability legislation introduced Wednesday.

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

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This year it resulted in shadow education secretary Tristam Hunt being turned away from an east London school, amid concerns they were breaking the law, and failing schools had to meet «public interest tests» before getting Government help.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

But NYC's traditional public school system is on a fast track to nowhere without a successful strategy to turn around the vast majority of non-charter, non-selective admissions schools that continue to fail to prepare students for colleges and careers.

Since they're starting the process of turning around a public school — and got stuck with a chronically failing one for years — it seems only smart to ask parents who are on the front lines about their thoughts and experiences, don't you think?

«For the first time perhaps in U.S. history,» we wrote in 2010, «parents are poised to take over and turn around a failing public school on their own terms.

They fail to mention that their hero, Dannel Malloy, was an initial sponsor and plaintiff of the CCJEF lawsuit when he was Mayor of Stamford but turned tail when he became governor and actually had chance to do something about the way Connecticut's public schools are funded.

In Expanding District Capacity to Turn Around Failing Schools: An Evaluation of the Cameron Middle School Charter Conversion, Public Impact's Daniela Doyle looks at Metropolitan Nashville's first attempt at gradually converting a chronically low - performing district school to one operated by a charter management organizSchool Charter Conversion, Public Impact's Daniela Doyle looks at Metropolitan Nashville's first attempt at gradually converting a chronically low - performing district school to one operated by a charter management organizschool to one operated by a charter management organization.