Comments on: Race to Top compromise heads to Assembly http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/12/17/senate-oks-compromise-on-race-to-the-top/ Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy Wed, 30 May 2012 07:31:37 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lisa karahalios http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/12/17/senate-oks-compromise-on-race-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-4185 lisa karahalios Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:13:49 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=838#comment-4185 For years, teachers in Los Angeles have begged the School Board for the tools we need to better educate children. For years, the District has slammed the door in our faces. Yet, private companies come along with their hands out, and they roll out the red carpet for them. For years, teachers in Los Angeles have begged the School Board for the tools we need to better educate children. For years, the District has slammed the door in our faces. Yet, private companies come along with their hands out, and they roll out the red carpet for them.

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]]> By: johnf http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/12/17/senate-oks-compromise-on-race-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-4130 johnf Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:32:54 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=838#comment-4130 Louis, from what I can tell, the parent empowerment provision applies to a low-achieving school that "continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress" under No Child Left Behind law. That's potentially a lot of schools. If one half of parents or guardians of children in the school or in a feeder school for that school sign a petition, the district would have to choose from among several turn-around strategies. The parents may demand a charter school, but the school board could try another option, like replacing the principal and at least half the staff or a "transformation" option that could include a longer day, performance-based pay for teachers, working with a mentor school. I am assuming the provision would apply to the first 75 schools where parents submit a valid petition. <em>(reporting from the Baltimore blizzard of 2009)</em> Louis, from what I can tell, the parent empowerment provision applies to a low-achieving school that “continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress” under No Child Left Behind law. That’s potentially a lot of schools. If one half of parents or guardians of children in the school or in a feeder school for that school sign a petition, the district would have to choose from among several turn-around strategies. The parents may demand a charter school, but the school board could try another option, like replacing the principal and at least half the staff or a “transformation” option that could include a longer day, performance-based pay for teachers, working with a mentor school. I am assuming the provision would apply to the first 75 schools where parents submit a valid petition.
(reporting from the Baltimore blizzard of 2009)

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]]> By: Louis Freedberg http://toped.svefoundation.org/2009/12/17/senate-oks-compromise-on-race-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-4075 Louis Freedberg Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47:22 +0000 http://educatedguess.org/blog/?p=838#comment-4075 How will they decide which 75 schools will qualify? How will they decide which 75 schools will qualify?

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