Sentences with phrase «turnaround initiatives»
Total state and federal funding for school turnaround initiatives, including the achievement centers, is slated to be $ 24 million next year, when their work is set to begin.
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It makes sense intuitively, and we have seen repeatedly that successful school reform, charter schools, and turnaround initiatives focus first on discipline and culture to establish a foundation for learning.
There is simply too much data from the world of education and other industries showing that the success rate of turnaround initiatives aimed at persistently failing entities is staggeringly low.
Cohen wrote, «To dramatically and systemically improve our nation's failing schools, comprehensive state turnaround initiatives, like the Commissioner's Network included in Senate Bill 24, must be pursued as part of a spectrum of interventions.
Maiwurm's wealth of experience includes implementing turnaround initiatives, dealing with clients all over the world, negotiating and managing major asset dispositions, orchestrating debt restructurings, and building relationships with bondholders, stockholders, joint venture partners, employees and customers.
In 2012 - 13, Project L.I.F.T. was launched — a five - year turnaround initiative in nine schools in West Charlotte.
The biggest takeaway is just how perfectly SIG squares with our previous experience with turnaround initiatives: Big hype, big money, paltry initial results, requests for more time and money, and then more paltry results.
States will also have the opportunity to direct more Title I dollars to turnaround initiatives under the new law than in previous years.
Leading Charlotte foundations formed a funding collaborative to support a five - year district turnaround initiative to dramatically improve educational outcomes for students in the West Charlotte High School corridor, one of the city's lowest - performing feeder zones.
She serves on the CTAC team which guides school turnaround initiatives nationally, manages national symposia, and coordinates leadership and networking summits in CTAC's community development initiatives.
One review of the literature found that only about one - fourth of businesses that undertook turnaround initiatives were able to institute major changes in their structure and management, and even those businesses did not show increased economic performance (Hess & Gift, 2008).
My past work experience has shaped me into a Business Operations Leader with skills in marketing, sales and business development and strong knowledge of business turnaround initiatives.
My past work experience has shaped me into an employee with extensive expertise in restaurant turnaround initiatives, cost containment strategies, and staff training and retention, producing a «customer dining experience» with repeat business and customer loyalty.
Gertrude Jones, Instructional Specialist, is a leader in supporting school turnaround initiatives.
True to that challenge, Phoenix now operates three schools: two Commonwealth charter schools in Chelsea (opened 2006) and Springfield (opened 2014) and an in - district school modeled after Phoenix Chelsea's commonwealth charter structure in Lawrence (opened 2012)-- an innovative step in a state turnaround initiative.
Mobileiron Inc (NASDAQ: MOBL) reported fourth - quarter results Feb. 8 that not only exceeded expectations, but signaled ongoing progress in a turnaround initiative, according to Wall Street's newest bull.
One measure of whether the turnaround initiative is worth the substantial investment of taxpayer money will be whether Marshall attracts students who are ready for accelerated classes, or even regular high school - level courses.
Mr. Field has worked extensively with SEAs, school districts, and schools to plan and implement school turnaround initiatives.
The authors examined the student achievement data of each school included in the turnaround initiatives — and in LPS, each traditional public school in the district — to select schools that have made notable academic gains since implementing these practices.
For example, prior to LPS's school turnaround initiative, the district's math and English language arts, or ELA, proficiency rates fell within the bottom 1 percent of school districts in Massachusetts.
Victoria Vanzura, Instructional Specialist, is a leader in supporting turnaround initiatives.
Barbara W. Brown, Instructional Specialist, is a leader in supporting school turnaround initiatives.
Students who attend the low - performing schools at the heart of Mayor Bill de Blasio's school turnaround initiative are twice as likely to have a low - rated teacher as their peers in an average city school, according to a Chalkbeat analysis.
One year into an aggressive, expensive school turnaround initiative, some of Denver's lowest - performing public schools are showing marked academic improvement by providing an education nearly identical to that of the highest - performing charter schools in the country.
According to her biography on The Broad Foundation's website, «Gabrielle Ramos currently serves as a priority project manager at the Connecticut State Department of Education, focusing on district intervention and school turnaround initiatives.
Opportunity Culture was first launch in Project LIFT, a turnaround initiative in nine schools in West Charlotte, and now 30 additional schools across the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools district are participating.
Restarts represent a more dramatic intervention compared with internal school turnaround initiatives, and a preferable alternative to closing schools when students do not have access to other quality options.
The candidates are: Edmond Heatley, education commissioner in Bermuda, Georgia; D'Juan Hernandez, New Orleans businessman and lawyer who also serves on the board of Algiers Charter Schools Association; Kyle Wedberg, head of NOCCA and also RSD's chief administrative officer under Paul Vallas; and Thomas Darden, who oversaw Philadelphia's charter school office and its turnaround initiative and is now executive assistant for a Philadelphia charter school group.
Phoenix is replicated in Lawrence as a district school part of the state turnaround initiative, an unprecedented collaboration.
Automotive Manufacturing Operations Executive Record of tenacious problem solving, cost cutting and turnaround initiatives.