Sentences with phrase «worst school districts»

His high school was in one of the country's worst school districts with a 40 % dropout rate, he says.

Yet they were starting from the bottom; New Orleans was the second - worst school district in the nation's second - lowest - ranked state.

The conclusion from my answer is that increasing funding to bad school districts above a minimum baseline level would NOT cause them to catch up to the good districts, because that would not address the underlying socioeconomic disparity differences of populace.

The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes On the Nation's Worst School District By Richard Whitmire Jossey - Bass, 2011, $ 24.95; 270 pages.

We congratulate NYC parents on their successful challenge of one bad school district leader — let's hope that other mayors (or mayors - elect) are paying attention!

No need to go to high crime / bad school district areas in Houston to find cash flowing single family homes.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren echoed Mayor de Blasio's rhetoric of income equality, saying her city has the worst school district in the state and the fifth - highest child poverty rate in the nation.

The (incorrect) conclusion from that assertion is that to address the issue; all that needs to be done is to increase funding to bad school districts and they will be equal to good ones (as funding is assumed to be causative).

Even though as college - educated, well - paid, two - parent households we might be in the best possible position to help these schools» most fundamental problem, we still can't act to help the bad school districts become better, because of our (selfish) desire to give our children the best education we can give them.

If Los Angeles is the worst school district in America, its East Coast cousin, New York City, is a close second.

I honestly relish going up against the «big, bad school districts» on behalf of individual struggling students.

To say that DCPS had a poor reputation would be an understatement — the national media had long labeled it one of the worst school districts in the nation.

But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

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).

Richard Whitmire is the author of «The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District» and the forthcoming «On the Rocketship,» about high - performing charter schools.

Richard Whitmire, a former president of the National Education Writers Association, is the author of «The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District.»

Here's what the Los Angeles Weekly reported about the Compton parent trigger (Dec. 9, 2010): Parent Revolution decided to focus on McKinley Elementary School and approach parents there after researching the worst school districts in California.

I'm not advocating that a bad school district should have a great gifted program, but that the gifted program should be at the same level of quality as the school district.

Detroit is our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

By virtually every measure, this program is a remarkable success for a city that features one of the worst school districts in the country.

Chicago has certainly come a long way from 1987, when then - Secretary of Education William Bennett called Chicago the worst school district in America.

In addition, nine out of 10 of the worst school districts are former «Abbott» districts — low - income urban communities serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

A 8 to 7 vote for a non-educator with three years experience coming from the worst school district in the state?

Our nation's capital, home to fifty thousand students, boasts one of the worst school districts in the country.

Thirty years after being labeled the worst school district in the nation and after two decades of fiscal crisis, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) welcomed more than 381,000 students back to class last month as a leader among the nation's urban school districts.

Governor Christie celebrated the «two years of graduation rate increases in [Camden,] what was once the worst school district in New Jersey.»

There's an obvious appeal to parents working together to effect change in their schools, and giving parents in bad school districts an opportunity to bring improvement.

If schools are a top priority you wouldn't buy a high priced estate in a bad school district.