Sentences with phrase «worst school districts in the nation»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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 Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest school system in the nation - and perhaps the School District is the second largest school system in the nation - and perhaps the school system in the nation - and perhaps the worst.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Springschools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, SpringSchools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

The District of Columbia's public schools, once considered among the worst in the nation, continued its trend of steady, across - the - board gains on the 2015 NAEP.

This district, by far the worst in the nation, went through agonizing battles between Michelle Rhee (the former chancellor of Washington public schools) and the unions.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

Administrators say a culture shift in schools may be painful, but that it is both urgent and necessary to lift the two cities from among the worst - performing districts in the nation.

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

Stats are gradually improving in the Clark County School District, but it still has the third worst high school graduation rate in the nSchool District, but it still has the third worst high school graduation rate in the nschool graduation rate in the nation.

Fundamentally, Illinois must invest in its chronically underfunded school districts and raise our ranking — now worst in the nation — for state funding of education.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

He came from the embroiled district of Atlanta Public Schools who have been involved in the worst case of test score scandal ever in the history of our nation.

The most expensive school ever to be built in California and the nation opened its doors in the Los Angeles Unified School District this week, amidst one of the worst budgetary times our state hasschool ever to be built in California and the nation opened its doors in the Los Angeles Unified School District this week, amidst one of the worst budgetary times our state hasSchool District this week, amidst one of the worst budgetary times our state has seen.

When Park City School District Superintendent Ray Timothy took the reins of the Park City School District in June of 2007, it is unlikely he anticipated riding into the nation's worst recession since the 1930s.