Sentences with phrase «use school closures»

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

But the value of the appraisal to use school closure always goes up when the people in them are devalued.

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Using the pseudo name Gull Makee, she wrote a diary for the BBC Urdu Service blog, narrating how she and her classmates still managed to attend the school by wearing normal clothes instead of uniforms, how fearful she once felt upon overhearing a passerby's threatening phone call, and how frustrating it was for her to learn about the school's closure for winter vacations, with no announcement about its reopening date.

The teacher's union, which is locked in a bitter war with Mayor Michael Bloomberg over the terms of a new teacher evaluation system, has repeatedly slammed the administration for using closures as a key method for turning schools around.

Topics ranged from the use of standardized testing and school co-location, to school closures and the recent gridlock between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the UFT over teacher evaluations.

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

One in five of England's schools are used as polling stations and face closure or disruption on voting day, Schools Week researchschools are used as polling stations and face closure or disruption on voting day, Schools Week researchSchools Week research finds.

The reason is that authorizers use accountability plans to make high - stakes decisions — such as school corrective action, non-renewal, revocation, and closure — that directly impact the hundreds or thousands of families whose children are enrolled in charter schools.

PCSB employs a cloud - based system for collecting and making available public documents; enrollment specialists work with students displaced by school closures; a recent internal reorganization better develops and deploys functional expertise; and the use of social media disseminates key school information.

Hence the camp that favors judicious but firm use of school closures increasingly carries the day.

Using rigorous non-experimental methods, a 2013 study of charters in 16 states by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that average charter school effectiveness increased overall, due in large part to closures of poorly performing schools.

Mr. Dobson, a senior at Capital High School in Charleston, W.Va., recently created an iPhone application for his school to use for checking schedules, grades, and school closures, plus several other School in Charleston, W.Va., recently created an iPhone application for his school to use for checking schedules, grades, and school closures, plus several other school to use for checking schedules, grades, and school closures, plus several other school closures, plus several other tasks.

To avoid forced campus closures or a state takeover, the district proposed using the provisions of another law that would give it a two - year reprieve by ceding control over the 10 schools to an outside organization.

As you noted, high stakes testing — using tests for student promotion, teacher evolution, and even school closure — has certainly increased the controversy surrounding the Common Core.

TEACHERS / UNIONS BuzzFeed: Unions Ready to Use DeVos Against School Choice Democrats KQED: Unions prepare to lose in the courthouse, strike back in the statehouse WashPost: WV teachers traded classrooms for picket lines NPR: WV Teacher Walkouts, School Closures Continue The Atlantic: WV's Teachers Are Not Satisfied

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

Instead of choosing among four contentious turnaround models (turnaround, restart, school closure, and transformation), schools have two new additional options: One option allows state agencies to establish any whole school improvement strategy for use by local education agencies with approval from the U.S. Secretary of Education, and the other option permits schools to partner with outside organizations who have successful records in school turnarounds.

We take exception with using one example of a poor performing charter school and its closure as representative of the movement.

About a dozen of these districts are using cooperation, also commonly referred to as district - charter collaboration, to drive decisions and address systemic challenges, including tracking school performance, student enrollment, and school closure.

She further suggests that a working model for educator preparation reform is the one used at the beginning of the last century in overhauling and upgrading the country's medical schools, which resulted in the closure of over half of the medical training programs over a 25 - year period.

Black and Latino students live disproportionately at or below the poverty line, and it is no accident that we are faced with the most segregated school system in history, with a disproportionate number of school closures happening in the poorest communities - all at the hands of using invalid metrics.

One piece that is glaringly clear for me is there is no mention of eliminating the use of tests scores used to label schools as failing and set on a path of closure.

Use the DCPS Events Calendar to search and plan for school closures, spring and winter break dates, teacher professional development days and other special events.

Now RYH is sponsoring a petition against the Chicago Public Schools space utilization formula used to declare dozens of schools «underutilized» and therefore in danger of closure thiSchools space utilization formula used to declare dozens of schools «underutilized» and therefore in danger of closure thischools «underutilized» and therefore in danger of closure this year.

To summarize, the written regulations (R - 3600 (c)-RRB- require the Board to notify parents of a potential school closure, prepare a closing study using multiple criteria that is conducted by a committee (the selection process and requirement for a committee are vague), allow people close to the decisions (e.g. parents at the school) to have input in deliberations about closing a school before the final decision is made, and arrange public hearings on the topic.

Test scores are used to bar students from moving from one grade to another, to determine teacher and administrator pay, and to label schools as «failing» — a step that often leads to closure.

The United Federation of Teachers, joined by the NAACP and several public officials, filed suit against the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schools.

The use of flawed test results to force school closures and encourage the proliferation of privately - run, publicly - funded charter schools is an outright disgrace.

Standardized tests are being used to measure things they can not measure, like school quality and teacher effectiveness, with deleterious results; such as massive school closures, which destabilize children and communities, and the current troubling shortage of students willing to enter the teaching profession.

He took a different approach to school closures but he continues, to this day, to use our money for his projects.

Because NYC schools risk receivership and even closure based on test scores, because state test scores are the variable used in awarding free SHSAT preparation, because the city publishes school - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquschool - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquSchool Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquschool curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize» it.

Still, the article raises the important issues of school closures and the over use of standardized testing — and pointed out that these are movements I have been a part of for many years.

Here are five ways that you can use Edmentum Courseware to keep students on track during school closures.

API scores are used to determine which schools are succeeding and which require interventions or even potential closure over time.

The chief researcher, Dr. James Kemple, said that «our results offer support for the strategic use of school closures as part of a multi-dimensional high school reform strategy.»

Ravitch also uses credible research to debunk the «fixes» in vogue for our public schools: such as Teach for America, charter schools, test - based accountability, eliminating tenure, test - based teacher evaluation, parent trigger, school closures and the Common Core State standards.

Discuss HST and its use as a vehicle for enabling destructive policies such as school closures & ranking and sorting students that leads to the school to prison pipeline.

We are proud that we have been able to use these tools to fight against school library closures and librarian layoffs and that we've won so many of them.

The Nazi closure of the famous Bauhaus Design School led many instructors to seek safety in the United States, where their skills were immediately put to use.