Sentences with phrase «turn over the local schools»

It's a controversial model that, based on the numbers reported in similar programs in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana, has produced mixed results and bitter opposition from local parents, many of whom are fired up over the notion of turning over their local schools to outside charters.

In Muncie, it would turn over the local schools to Ball State University.

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«We're a lot more comfortable with some of the modifications that have been suggested, especially giving more control to the local school districts and not turning it over to some outside group to determine the fate of the school.»

«The governor's plan is essentially to strip away local control and turn a school over either to an outside entity of his choosing or to the state itself,» she told the committee.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Alternatively, under the Governor's bill, the local schools could be turned over to «Regional Educational Service Centers, non-profits, charter management organizations... or other providers who have «proven» school design and track records.

Some of the schools were turned over to private managers, some to local universities, and others were «restructured» — overhauled and given extra support by the school district.

You get schools to «fail» by setting up ridiculous benchmarks (such as «No Child Left Behind» and now «Common Core»); and then when the school has failed, you take it out of local control and turn it over to charter school companies and other «reformers.»

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

Schools are measured as successes and failures using distant measurements that are absent any locally understood input, and then they are threatened until those measures rise — or the school is closed and frequently turned over to a private operator with absolutely no accountability to local democratic institutions.

The current method, under which local school districts are charged with turning over state funds to charters, has prompted lawsuits and acrimony over the last decade.

Parents, teachers and the community that makes up Hartford's Clark Elementary School in Hartford are still reeling from the Malloy Administration's threat that the Clark «Turnaround Committee» must agree to turn their local Hartford neighborhood school over to Washington D.C.'s Friendship Charter School Inc or else they won't get the funds necessary to improve their sSchool in Hartford are still reeling from the Malloy Administration's threat that the Clark «Turnaround Committee» must agree to turn their local Hartford neighborhood school over to Washington D.C.'s Friendship Charter School Inc or else they won't get the funds necessary to improve their sschool over to Washington D.C.'s Friendship Charter School Inc or else they won't get the funds necessary to improve their sSchool Inc or else they won't get the funds necessary to improve their schoolschool.

Plan B was to force Hartford to turn the local neighborhood school over to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington DC through a no - bid contract process.

readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purSchool to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purschool management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolSchool, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolschool away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolschool operator at the end of this schoolschool year.

The only sensible answer is to turn them over to local authorities when they could then become first choice schools for those who live nearest.

Discussions were taking place in Hartford about turning over one or more of the local schools over to the nation's biggest charter school chain, the KIPP Foundation, which runs 130 schools around the country.

Calero has spent the past five weeks turning the institution into an exaggeratedly kitsch - ified version of a Caribbean school where members of the local community and the art world will come to take classes on Latin American art history, among other activities that will develop over the next two months.