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…
Oakland School Board votes to cut $9M from budget mid-school year
by Katie Utehs Thursday, December 14, 2017 OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — The Oakland Unified School District board voted 6-1 to cut the budget by $9 million mid-school year. The district is facing a budget shortfall that would leave it without an adequate reserve, which could in turn force state receivership of the district. Parents, students,…
Angry crowd protests proposed $15M Oakland school budget cuts
OAKLAND, Calif. (Jana Katsuyama/KTVU) – An angry crowd of Oakland parents, teachers and students rallied outside the Oakland Unified District school voard budget meeting Monday before entering the room with signs and loud chants saying “Cut from the top.” The anger was over a proposed $15.1 million in cuts the board voted last week to make…
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…
Parents protest graphic sex ed in San Diego public schools
By Eric Francis Concerned Parents of San Diego Unified rallied at the San Diego Unified School District on February 27 to tell the board of education their sex education program is “too much too soon.” The “Rally4Kids” drew people from all corners of San Diego to confront the school board. They said pornography, abortion and the…
Minneapolis parents and students protest school budget cuts
Prospect of cutting 300 to 400 jobs has raised alarm among teachers and parents, who pleaded with school board members. By Faiza Mahamud Star Tribune APRIL 10, 2018 More than 100 parents, students and school employees pleaded with the Minneapolis school board Tuesday night to preserve jobs and funding in the face of a massive deficit. Students…
Parents to pull kids from public schools to protest ‘graphic, gender-bending’ sex ed
Bradford Richardson – The Washington Times – Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Parents are pulling their children out of public schools for a day to protest sex education that they say has become graphic, hedonistic and ideological under the influence of pro-choice and gay rights groups. The Sex Ed Sit Out started with parents in Charlotte, North…
Oklahoma teachers are swarming to run for office
By Isabella Gomez and Lindsay Benson, Updated 4:49 PM ET, Thu April 12, 2018 Oklahoma teachers have been rallying at the state Capitol for eight days, but on Wednesday, many showed up for a new reason — to register to run for office. The window to file candidacy opened at 8 a.m. as dozens of people…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 