Dogan Elementary is one of 10 schools in the Houston district
whose academic struggles may trigger a state takeover of the district
Not exact matches
Ms. Rosenfeld,
whose own parents were an
academic couple, recalls that her father landed a job at Oberlin College in the 1960s, while her mother
struggled for years to find equally meaningful work.
Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students
whose first language was neither English nor French and who were
struggling with
academic language proficiency.
White,
whose proposal to count
academic gains at 25 percent is part of an overall draft proposal, noted that even in D - rated schools, up to 66 percent of
struggling students exceeded
academic growth targets during the 2015 - 16 school year.
Even those labeled as fluent English speakers,
whose gaps in English may not be readily apparent, often
struggle to develop the
academic vocabulary they need to be successful (Butler & Hakuta, 2006).