Sentences with phrase «with turnaround schools»

So far states with turnaround school districts are the only ones to explicitly reference charters as a turnaround strategy.

Administrations in schools with turnaround school operators have effectively been replaced by these private companies, which will run «all or part of the school's operations,» according to an IDOE statement released Thursday afternoon.

Not exact matches

Old - school retailers like Gap have suffered compared to fast - fashion companies like Zara and H&M, which allure millennials with their quick turnaround and low - price.

In fact, Hornets general manager Bob Bass credits Jones's «old school» attitude with the franchise's 180 - degree turnaround a year ago.

People like Randy and Nichole associated the turnaround at their children's school with Hurt more than the federal money.

«There is much more to be done but we are pleased with the turnaround that has started and, with continued support, can further progress in these schools.»

Speaking about the federal models for schools identified as Persistently Lowest Achieving, Mulgrew said that the union could not come to an agreement with the DOE on the transformation or turnaround models because the UFT wanted a teacher to be able to discuss an informal observation write - up with an administrator, but the DOE refused to require that.

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

That marked a turnaround from the chancellor's pre-referendum warning on the campaign trail that a vote for Brexit would force him to call an emergency budget, with increases in income tax, alcohol and petrol duties, and cuts to the NHS, schools and defence.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is weighing in with his turnaround plan for failing schools state - wide.

During a meeting with The Buffalo News Editorial Board on Tuesday, Cuomo said that decisions about school turnaround plans and how teachers will be evaluated should be made locally.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown is in Albany today along with staff members trying to finalize the turnaround applications for East and Lafayette and two other sSchools Superintendent Pamela Brown is in Albany today along with staff members trying to finalize the turnaround applications for East and Lafayette and two other schoolsschools.

School - turnaround experts say a few small things, such as aligning curriculum with state standards and creating focused time for reading and math, can yield short - term results.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

08, a consultant with the Office of District and School Turnaround under the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, has been seeing in other turnaround schools.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

«My former principal (from the second school I taught at) reached out to me last summer and asked me to come out to Los Angeles to work with her in what is one of the largest turnaround organizations in the country.

Douglas County lost its «accredited with distinction» status with the Colorado Department of Education, and 11 schools were put on turnaround plans for poor performance.

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

In Philadelphia, for example, which has experimented with outside management of schools for over a decade, the new SIG funding is helping to fuel difficult changes through the Renaissance Schools Initiative, which identifies chronically low - performing schools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizschools for over a decade, the new SIG funding is helping to fuel difficult changes through the Renaissance Schools Initiative, which identifies chronically low - performing schools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizSchools Initiative, which identifies chronically low - performing schools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizschools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizations.

Nevertheless, the die is cast, I've lost, and we're about to pursue school turnarounds with vigor.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

It may well be that the schools that Governor Warner wants to help most will solve their dysfunction only with significant and simultaneous infusions of new staff as well as the kinds of turnaround principals that Warner so aptly observes are needed.

When the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the state of Michigan's school turnaround district, launched in the fall of 2012 with 15 schools, hopes for rebirth in Detroit were high in many quarters.

States can focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.

The people with the clearest insight into how to make teacher evaluations or school turnarounds actually deliver are in schools.

Among other things, he's brought in Monica Higgins, an associate professor at the Ed School, to organize a series of 90 - minute roundtables every three to four weeks in which outside policy experts and practitioners meet with Duncan and his top deputies for an open discussion on a particular topic — teacher performance, turnaround in schools.

Andy Smarick's recent article applies the word «turnaround» to a wide range of efforts to help struggling schools, and while he makes an interesting case, I disagree with his premise that school - turnaround efforts «have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations.»

Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

While we agree with Smarick that evidence is not clear on a single turnaround strategy that works, we do know that schools can accelerate improvement through strong, transformational leaders; collaborative teacher teams; and targeting expertise and resources to help students who have fallen behind.

Their earlier work on this topic includes School Turnarounds: A Review of Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement (Center on Innovation and Improvement, 2007), and Julie Kowal and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005).

With six reformers, the new board initiated a turnaround strategy in southwest Denver and approved another major expansion of DSST, which will educate one - quarter of all middle and high schoolers by 2025.

Schools scheduled for transformation will be able to hire teachers with two new designations, master teacher and turnaround teacher.

Amid the shift in curricular emphasis, the personnel turnover, and the shift to Common Core - aligned tests, Douglas County lost its «accredited with distinction» status, and the number of schools on turnaround plans for poor performance went from zero to 11.

Turnarounds have consistently shown themselves to be ineffective — truly an unscalable strategy for improving urban districts — and our relentless preoccupation with improving the worst schools actually inhibits the development of a healthy urban public - education industry.

Even with just 8,600 schools in need of improvement, it is not possible for state education agencies to develop and implement effective turnaround strategies, no matter how much money is available.

The Partnership's turnaround plan combines some of the central components of Catholic schools — strict discipline, a focus on character development — with a new infusion of charter - inspired efficiency and academic rigor.

And schools are getting better at turning: The first turnaround school took four years to halve the gap; the newest batch took only two, all with a unionized workforce of public school teachers.

Meanwhile, the education chapters offer the not - so - stunning conclusion that there's very little research to guide school turnaround efforts, though some evidence shows that the strategy can work, under the right conditions, with the right leadership.

All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.

Schools can apply directly without charitable status and offers a simple application form and quick turnaround with no deadlines, and a decision should be given within 8 weeks.

«We look forward to working with PIER Fellows to analyze the implementation and impact of statewide initiatives such as our curriculum frameworks, educator evaluation framework, and school and district turnaround efforts.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

He consults and leads project teams on a wide range of education policy and school management issues, with a particular focus on school turnarounds and charter school quality and growth.

CPS contracts with AUSL to run Orr and Phillips, as well as 10 elementary school turnarounds.

It is fully aligned with the competencies articulated in the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards (Council of Chief State School Officers, 2008) and Public Impact's competencies for turnaround leaders (Public Impact, 2008).

El - Mekki's team at the Shoemaker Campus have been recognized by President Obama and Oprah Winfrey for having created a school that partners with communities to turnaround failing schools.

• Pueblo City Schools has a three - year, $ 7.4 million contract with a New York - based school - turnaround company to fix six failing sSchools has a three - year, $ 7.4 million contract with a New York - based school - turnaround company to fix six failing schoolsschools.