Sentences with phrase «turnaround schools did»

Chicago charter and turnaround schools do just about as well as CPS schools overall, and many carry federal and / or local failure labels.

Not exact matches

«There is much more to be done but we are pleased with the turnaround that has started and, with continued support, can further progress in these schools.»

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Carranza said he will «look under the hood» and when he does, he'll see that Mayor de Blasio's inattention to K - 12 school improvement and the achievement gap, his hostility to school choice and his failed turnaround programs mean that a change is needed,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

But how does a school that was among the lowest performing in the state experience such a dramatic turnaround in such a short time?

Some education leaders have complained that the federal models are too inflexible and don't put enough emphasis on parent involvement, but a little more than a year later, some turnaround schools are starting to show gains.

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Later, during a speech in the auditorium, Obama touted the school's turnaround academic success and highly praised Skipper, whom he said was doing «unbelievable work.»

Our participants did not disappoint; I strongly recommend checking out their ideas on course access, school turnarounds, and charter quality.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

The Obama administration has used its Race to the Top program and unprecedented, far - reaching conditions for states seeking «waivers» from the No Child Left Behind Act's most destructive requirements as excuses to micromanage what states are doing on teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and much else.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

My blog silence these past few months has been due to my work on an education reform guide and a story for Education Next on middle schools (which, my editors hope, will be done soon), but I have been paying attention to the sturm und drang concerning Diane Ravitch's new book and her «turnaround» or «u-turn» on certain core issues — e.g. charter schools, teacher assessment, and testing.

While we agree with Smarick that evidence is not clear on a single turnaround strategy that works, we do know that schools can accelerate improvement through strong, transformational leaders; collaborative teacher teams; and targeting expertise and resources to help students who have fallen behind.

Tom Torkelson, CEO of the high - performing IDEA network agrees: «I don't do turnarounds because a turnaround usually means operating within a school system that couldn't stomach the radical steps we'd take to get the school back on track.

The need to do something different is pronounced because of the long history of unsuccessful «school turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prschool turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prSchool Improvement Grant program.

«There's been a lot of research done [around the world]... on school turnaround, using sample schools and whole districts, to look at what are the key elements that will turn around educational outcomes for students.

The rapid - turnaround randomized evaluation found that the short - term intervention did not improve attendance rates during the second semester of the 2015 - 2016 school year.

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Just because we don't have clear evidence in what works in turnarounds, it doesn't mean states should just throw their hands up when it comes to students trapped in failing schools.

(1) The federal government doesn't really know what it takes to turnaround failing schools, so it shouldn't be prescriptive.

To be clear, I don't think the strategy even needs to be a turnaround strategy; you could simply give a voucher to every kid in a failing schools.

And when the Obama administration attempted to jump - start stalled interventions under NCLB with redesigned School Improvement Grants, we learned yet again that even a convoluted «rule of nine» can't «make» districts choose the turnaround options that they find most challenging (even if those are the options with the strongest odds of doing well by kids).

These results, of course, do not imply that all recent school turnaround reforms have been successful.

What did occur was a series of new mandates and requirements that came down from the State Department of Education that related to «turnaround» schools without sufficient state resources to adequately fund them.

In the event that a chosen turnaround model doesn't deliver improved results within two years, the secretary can force the school to start over with a new approach.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

In other words, New Jersey did not use the «turnaround» methods of reform favored by today's school reformers.

«That bill did away with tenure for all teachers in Connecticut and it repealed collective bargaining for teacher's in turnaround schools.»

California, though, lost in two rounds because of what Duncan called an incomplete application: California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) didn't sign onto RTTT pledges that mandated specific school turnaround strategies and tying students» test scores to teacher ratings.

Students who did not attend the turnaround school also benefitted from the closure of the low - performing school.

While I was the recipient of the AERA award, I can't take all the credit for the work we do in school turnaround.

The State Board's decision to keep failing schools open in Aurora does not bode well for its ability to make difficult decisions around school closures and school turnaround.

For four years, Gerdts worked in the pre-K program at a turnaround school in Rockaway and found it to be the most rewarding work she had ever done.

The state can close schools that don't respond to the turnaround plans specified in the approved waiver.

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While Cuomo has poured more money into charter schools than Malloy, Malloy is the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and proposing legislation that would unilaterally eliminate collective bargaining for teachers in turnaround schools.

We recently did some research on the state of school turnarounds in Colorado.

Critics have complained that correlations the research draws between the nine indicators and school turnaround do not allow it to make such «bold» recommendations.

It occurred in February 2011 when Governor Dannel Malloy become the ONLY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR in the country to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective bargaining for unionized teachers in so - called «turnaround» schools.

I don't believe that charters are the golden ticket to school turnarounds.

States and districts can not do this alone; that is why nonprofit providers like Talent Development Secondary can provide the much needed capacity and expertise in the ESSA environment in school turnaround, early warning systems and chronic absenteeism.

The term success could not be used because the suggested turnaround charter schools do not have a record of success — at scale — anywhere.

The city has asked the state to provide the funds for next year by committing the schools to a different reform program — «turnaround,» which does not require new teacher evaluations.

In terms of addressing the struggling neighborhood schools — which would still remain, even if a «school of hope» came to town and offered parents another option — the bill expedites turnaround strategies, so that students don't languish for years in schools with a failing status.

Individual school turnarounds are hard to do because principals usually don't control budgets (which usually means teachers) or personnel decisions (also teachers)-- those are governed by the central office, by state laws influenced by lobbying by affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and collective bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers regardless of their performance.

«School closings, consolidations, turnarounds and other similar experiments do not work and do little to improve student achievement,» said Lewis.

«But as a whole, the Denver turnaround schools are doing pretty well.»