Sentences with phrase «years of academic failure»

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

Not exact matches

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a consortium of academic teams in more than 70 countries, until last year 25 - to -34-year-olds were significantly more worried about failure than 35 - to -54-year-olds.

Hats off to Elizabeth Truss for her riposte to the collection of early years specialists, academics and pundits who have tried yet again to persuade us that the root cause of educational failure is too early a start to school.

The same proportion (78 per cent) has seen an increase in fear of academic failure among pupils over the past two years.

Mass school closings occur when school districts decide to close large numbers of public schools in a community within a single year, citing a variety of reasons like «underutilization» or academic failure.

Students who have experienced years of repeated academic failure or have a history of attendance challenges are likely to drop out of school.

We recommend that states adopt this particular definition for two critical reasons: first, it has a proven ability to identify students who are at very high risk of academic failure due to absences; and, second, using it will allow for comparisons across states and districts nationwide, even if the lengths of their school years differ.

Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into charters under state oversight.

The program targets low income four - year olds who are at risk of later academic failure for high quality pre-kindergarten services.

When the district board and the superintendent fired Ballona High School principal Harriet Alonzo, it must have stunned anyone who had witnessed how her leadership had turned the school around.1 In just three years, from 2003 to 2006, with coaching from UCLA's School Management Program, Alonzo fashioned a leadership team of teachers who worked with her to transform Ballona High School from an academic failure to a smashing success.

The Success Highways Resiliency Assessment Academic Risk Index ™ shows which students are at risk of failure as early as three years before warning signs appear.

Officials disputed elements of Medina and Xavier's story, but PS 194, which enrolls 220 city kids, has a long history of campus violence and academic failure — problems that sometimes went unreported for years.

In return, fellows commit to teaching for three years in a high - needs school (schools with a significant percentage of students at risk of academic failure).

Charter schools» academic success or failure during their first year is a strong predictor of whether they will excel or struggle in later years, a new, far - reaching study finds...

According to the attorney general's office, an investigation began last year that showed the school's current financial problems were rooted in the failure of its 2006 plan to finance a new academic building by taking a $ 175 million mortgage on other property and investing and losing $ 35 million in stocks.

In middle and early high school, depression is often identified in this group; this depression is secondary to years of social and academic failure.