Posted: Jan. 24, 2018 6:44 PM Updated: Jan. 24, 2018 10:39 PM Posted By: Travis Leder Three Huntsville schools are listed as “failing” in the 2018 Alabama Accountability Act list. The Alabama Accountability Act deems schools in the lowest six percent as “failing” based on reading and math scores. The only three Tennessee Valley schools…
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Closing Low-Performing Schools is a Failing Reform Strategy
May 18th, 2017 Boulder, Colo. – Federal and state school accountability policies have used standardized test results to shine a spotlight on low-performing schools. A remedy offered to “turn around” low-performance in school districts is the option to close the doors of the low-performing schools and send students elsewhere. School Closure as a Strategy to…
Should Failing Schools Be Closed?
If a company can’t make profit or manage its business correctly, the company inevitably fails and a better one takes its place. When public schools fail, they rarely “go out of business,” but instead go through a process of remediation and restructuring. There has been no evidence to show that restructuring procedures lead to significantly…
14 Failing Schools Closing, Including Site of Bronx School Stabbing
Dec 18, 2017 · by Rebeca Ibarra The city is planning to close more than a dozen failing schools. Most are part of the de Blasio administration’s Renewal program for struggling schools and haven’t shown enough improvement in the past three years. Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said a big hurdle for many of the closing schools was getting their students to…
Parents Line Up in Opposition to DPS Special-Education Cuts
NORA OLABI | MARCH 16, 2018 | 3:32PM Earlier this year, Denver Public Schools announced it was cutting about $5 million from its budget, or about fifty central administration jobs, to provide schools with more funding in the 2018-2019 school year. About 86 percent of those cuts will directly or partially affect district-level special-education services by eliminating central office jobs, vacancies and…
Alabama education department cuts positions, pay in reorganization
By Trisha Powell Crain Thirty-nine positions were cut from the Alabama Department of Education in the reorganization of that agency, and some employees took “substantial” cuts in salaries, according to information Interim State Superintendent Ed Richardson shared with the Alabama Board of Education at Thursday’s work session. The agency came under fire last year after concerns over…
Data is Good—But Not Enough—to Improve Education, Says Baltimore City Public Schools CEO
By Tina Nazerian Apr 5, 2018 Sonja Brookins Santelises, the CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, sent a message to the teachers, principals, system leaders and non-profit professionals in the audience at her keynote on Wednesday: improvement science must be used in the context of a community’s individuals. It’s not about “fairy dust” or “easy answers.”…
Mississippi First urges more transparency in student testing
BY KAYLEIGH SKINNER APRIL 2, 2018 A new report suggests when it comes to state tests, Mississippi needs to be more transparent about what it measures and how often students take them. Mississippi First, a nonprofit advocacy group, worked with four undisclosed school districts to examine the amount of time students spend on state and district mandated testing,…
As Tests Begin, Chancellor Comes Out Against ‘Opt Out’
The new chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, has called sitting out the state math and reading tests an “extreme reaction.” CreditRichard Drew/Associated Press By ELIZABETH A. HARRISAPRIL 10, 2018 New York City’s school chancellor Richard A. Carranza will be the first to tell you that he has a lot to learn. Since taking over at the education department…
New state tests hope to prevent massive opt-outs
Posted: Apr 11, 2018 5:20 PM CDTUpdated: Apr 11, 2018 5:20 PM CDT BELLMORE –Thousands of students in grades 3-8 across Long Island Wednesday took the new English language arts state tests under a new series of rules. This year, the number of testing days had been cut from three to two. There were also fewer questions…
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