Sentences with phrase «who take over struggling schools»

Heads who take over struggling schools are to be given a two and half years reprieve from Ofsted inspections, to enable them to turn things around.

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Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson, Twisted) is a former basketball star who takes over for a friend retiring as a basketball coach for struggling, inner - city high school, Richmond High.

«The issue here is with taking away the voice of school employees who work in struggling schools taken over by the school reform officer,» said Doug Pratt, a spokesman for the Michigan Education Association.

Ben Chavis, who took over American Indian Public Charter in 2001, when it was struggling academically and in danger of losing its charter, said there was no mystery to his schools» success.

Supervisors who were principals themselves often want to «take over» struggling schools.

As state superintendent, Tony Bennett took over five schools, ordered intensive state - led interventions in three others and — especially during his last year in office — employed five staffers who spent four days a week making site visits to support perhaps 60 struggling schools.

But over the coming years, America needs to find 5,000 high — energy, hero principals to take over these struggling schools — and they will need a quarter of a million great teachers who are willing to do the toughest work in public education.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.