Sentences with phrase «with failing school districts»

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Close on the heels of Sodexo's $ 21 million settlement with the state of New York for failing to properly pass on rebates and volume discounts to the school districts it serves, two assembly members in New Jersey have petitioned that state's attorney... [Continue reading]

The latest attempt at reaching a storm - water agreement failed after the school district opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of medistrict opted this week to proceed with the September plan, rather than to consider a proposed agreement with the Park District that was crafted with the assistance of meDistrict that was crafted with the assistance of mediators.

Third, to ensure ongoing compliance with the implementation of the evaluation system, school districts will continue to remain ineligible for annual state education aid increases if the district fails to implement their approved evaluation system.

As the city school district grapples with failing schools, a powerful Buffalo stakeholder will lead a discussion on «The State of Public Education in Buffalo» Wednesday evening.

Under Cuomo's community schools proposal, the 17 districts with schools that are deemed to be «failing» or «persistently struggling» by the state would be eligible for part of $ 75 million that supports efforts to establish community schools.

Shortly after F.E.S. released its «forgotten fourth» report, StudentsFirstNY released its own study showing zero percent pass rates on math and English exams in 75 of the city's district schools, along with a call to de Blasio to «fix» the failing schools.

Some members of the District Parent Coordinating Council are ready to force the issue of failing schools in Buffalo by filing complaints this week with the state and federal governments asking for a federal receiver or special master to run the school system.

The Hempstead Union Free School District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuSchool District, under scrutiny for failing to enroll more than 30 immigrant children at the start of the school year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these stuschool year, has until today to provide the state attorney general's office with alleged «wait - lists» created for these students.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

Perez rallied with local parents in June to protest State Sen. Marisol Alcantara, after the state failed to fork over $ 55 million owed to District 6 schools.

Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.And that figure doesn't represent the full extent of resources put into the races, since some candidates have neglected to file their final financial reports and others failed to report ca...

Under then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., the district regularly failed to comply with state mandates and develop plans for turning around its struggling schools.

«The court concludes that the plaintiffs have failed to establish their claim that the state has not met its constitutional obligation to provide the students in the eight small city school districts with the opportunity for a sound, basic education,» O'Connor wrote in her ruling.

«The mayor speaks to collaborations with the Mt. Vernon City School District, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith telSchool District, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tDistrict, however he has failed to sign upwards to two million dollars in checks for tax collections from the comptroller's office, which could be used to pay city school district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith telschool district employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tdistrict employees and or services,» Council President Griffith tells BW.

Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

That may not appear to be much these days, when a single failed firm may gobble up $ 85 billion in government money, but recall that this was a school district, in 1984, of 37,000 students (it had fallen from 51,000 at the beginning of the case), with a budget of less than $ 100 million.

In an article that appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Ed Next, Andy Smarick urged charter school advocates to embrace a strategy of large - scale replacement of failing district schools with charter schools.

Proponents of such top - down management argue that many schools would simply fail if they were left to sink or swim on their own, with no assistance from the district.

Education reformers faced with failing schools and districts tend toward one of two camps: The Incrementalists hold that meaningful improvement can only happen slowly, with soul - wrenching culture change leading to instructional change and eventual student success.

WASHINGTON — The omnibus reauthorization bill completed last week by a House - Senate conference panel preserves controversial provisions requiring school districts to work with state officials to improve failing Chapter 1 programs, but limits the intervention power available to states.

After her school principal and district leaders failed to dissuade her from staging the protest, the school - board president and vice president, Silverthorn and Reynolds, met with Davis at her school.

For the fourth time since 1973, the high court found that the state has failed to supply its 28 poorest city school districts with enough money to overcome the myriad disadvantages faced by their 285,000 students.

In Minnesota, failing to reach a contract agreement with teachers on time can cost a school district — and not just in terms of labor - management reputation.

For reformers, the idea is that school districts or chartering agencies should be able to contract with private firms to operate public schools - especially failing ones - in order to take advantage of the greater flexibility, expertise, efficiency, and innovation that the marketplace might offer.

Each with approximately 100 students per grade in grades 9 through 12, these schools were created to serve some of the district's most disadvantaged students and are located mainly in neighborhoods where large failing high schools had been closed.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

I'm thinking of the many dozens of Latino immigrant parents we worked with in the Murphy School District in Phoenix who were dismayed to learn their district was chronically failing to educate their cDistrict in Phoenix who were dismayed to learn their district was chronically failing to educate their cdistrict was chronically failing to educate their children.

Hess and Finn, in hard - hitting chapters that bookend the volume, call on Congress to set realistic expectations for student performance based on national standards, to provide districts with initial flexibility when intervening in failing schools, but to establish tough consequences for superintendents and principals if those efforts are unsuccessful.

The decisions have the immediate effect of allowing two students to press forward with claims for damages against the Bradford Area school district in Pennsylvania for negligence in failing to prevent the incidents, some of which took place during summer vacation.

The parents asked the school district to reimburse them for his tuition since, the argued, the district was failing to provide their son with a «free appropriate public education,» as required by law.

The book The Prize details how the reform effort in Newark Public Schools failed, in large part, because Newark residents and district employees felt like reform was done to them, not with them.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

Alabama The Tax Credits for Contributing to Scholarship Granting Organizations program, enacted in 2013, provides scholarships for students who live in districts with failing schools and whose family income can not exceed 150 percent of the median household income in Alabama.

In this year's study, 48 % say the local school district should decide what to do with a school that has had failing test scores for a number of years, rather than the state education agency (32 %) or the governor (15 %).

The biggest oversight of CER's reform comes in its failure to rank states on how they have passed and implemented Parent Trigger laws that allow families to take over failing schools as well as gives them the ability to negotiate with districts on how those schools will be overhauled.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nowschool that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Noschools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Noschools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — NoSchools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Nowschool study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Noschools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — NowSchool Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

The U.S. Department of Education has never withheld money from states failing to meet that requirement because states have issued sanctions against schools and districts with low participation rates.

Before that, Mr. Field was the deputy chief of Charter, Partnership and New Schools with the School District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter sSchools with the School District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter District of Philadelphia, where he authorizer new schools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter sschools and designed and managed key elements of the district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter district's Renaissance School initiative to restart (turnaround) chronically failing schools in partnership with high - performing charter sschools in partnership with high - performing charter schoolsschools.

The sector's less sober members beat up on traditional schools and districts for «failing our children» and encourage them to emulate charters that are effective with the «same children.»

In the process of eliminating the city's numerous community school district offices, it seemed, school leaders had failed to come up with a new method for conducting suspension hearings for violent and unruly students.

Now, the state establishes a separate entity charged with removing from district custody those schools that the district has failed to set right — not as a one - shot intervention but as a routine part of state oversight.

Most importantly, then, test results provide parents and teachers with vital information about student learning, and accountability policies challenge districts and schools to meet individual student needs with effective teachers, strong curricula, choices for families and students, and break - the - mold interventions for failing schools.

He is author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That's Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010); The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Jossey - Bass, 2011); and The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools with Gaston Caperton (The College Board, 2012).

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

Such resistance was typical of big - city school district administrators, who had little patience with innovators, particularly novices like Feinberg and Levin; rookies with big innovative ideas have a habit of disrupting comfortable routines and often fail to deliver.

It has a simple goal: to make charters meet enrollment policies no district school could live with and then deny them funding and renewals when they fail to comply.

When Hurricane Katrina washed away New Orleans, the city and state decided to make lemonade by doing away with that city's own longtime corruption - plagued, academically failing school district.

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrWith behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrwith teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrwith a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.