Sentences with phrase «underachieving schools»

There are also proposals for more rapid intervention in underachieving schools and for giving parents more influence over the provision of schools in local authorities.

The new School Turnaround AmeriCorps program will support the placement of a dedicated cadre of AmeriCorps members in persistently underachieving schools across the country.

«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the moset resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

Ms Spielman was presenting her annual report, which highlighted a small core of persistently underachieving schools.

Her comments came as the regulator, Ofsted, warned of a hardcore of underachieving schools that were struggling to recruit teachers.

Superintendent Kriner Cash has begun rolling out details of the Buffalo district's latest plan to overhaul underachieving schools.

Longer school days are fast becoming a blueprint for turning around chronically underachieving schools across America and may be a key strategy looming for some of Buffalo's most struggling public schools.

For example, Arlene Ackerman, USP graduate and the former superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, was faced with underachieving schools and a deficit.

Given 8,600 underachieving schools nationwide, however, the $ 230 million set - aside can support an average grant amount of only about $ 25,000, assuming each qualifying school receives a grant.

South LA Schools Team Up To Fight Reconstitution The two South LA schools [Dorsey, Crenshaw] joined forces and organized a public meeting tonight to inform Crenshaw parents and students about the district's effort to reform underachieving schools.

The passage of SB620 in the Senate is, without a doubt, a significant first step in providing Michigan parents with the legal power to transform underachieving schools that are failing their children.

At the same time, NCLB's harshest penalties for underachieving schools and teachers are about to kick in: By 2014, the law dictates, 100 % of public school students must be «proficient» in math and reading.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

My hope is that Congress will continue to resist the temptation to support short - sighted changes, and will insist that immediate tutoring for children in underachieving schools be adopted as part of any package of reasonable «tweaks.»

The District of Columbia has bonuses for working in impoverished, underachieving schools.

The question to ask is, Why are those things so sorely lacking in our underachieving schools?

Author of many books including How Children Fail, How Children Learn, The Underachieving School, Teach Your Own, and Learning All the Time.