"On education, we have failing schools in this state, today, where we have over 100,000 students in schools that we call "failing" schools. Failing schools are schools that don't reach the basic minimum requirement by SED, the State Education Department, and many of these failing schools have been failing for over 10 years, believe it or not. And the system, the bureaucracy, has been too tolerant, in my opinion. And we are - we're going to be focusing on the closing schools, we're going to be investing in the school system to make sure we're doing everything we can on the state side. So we're going to have a very robust agenda and then the progressive government side that is very important to me." http://bit.ly/1NZjXzv
I can't think of anything more progressive than closing public schools and turning them over to charter operators funded by hedge fund managers.
Truly, what do any of us think should be done with "persistently struggling schools", many of which have already been converted to some version of a "community school" model?
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There are a lot of "informed public" types who shake their heads that "struggling schools" continue to exist--what do we tell them beyond "poverty is the root cause of their problems?"
Try steering some at risk students away from so called failing schools. The schools then improve in record time. Blaming the teachers and principal for low test scores just encourages whatever replaces the so called struggling school to play with numbers. We all know schools fail because of high numbers of at risk students.
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