But Principal Haynes-Smith says the new, smaller school system has afforded parents like Clark access to a school with a whole new outlook.
She's one of the veterans here in the New Orleans school system for nearly twenty years.
After Katrina, we reinvented the New Orleans school system, opening dozens of new charter schools, and creating a new scholarship program that is giving parents the chance to send their children to private or parochial schools of their choice.
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David Cicarella is the union president of the New Haven Public School system.
The staggered start dates are a result of changes made to the troubled New Orleans Public School System after Katrina.
The departure of Chancellor Joel Klein from the New York City School system marks a real change in the guard.
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New York's school system is letting him test a couple of them on its children.
State and city officials said they looked to New Haven's school system, which overhauled its evaluation system two years ago.
Bushman's students, among the best and the brightest in the New York City public school system, notice that the index rarely rises above 10%.
Instead, the facility will be serving up ebooks -- about 10, 000 digital titles or so -- in an attempt to supplement the area's traditional library system with some new-school cool.
Before that I was chancellor of the nation's largest school system, New York City, which enrolls more than 1.1 million kids.
When Manchester needed a new school e-mail system and many of the city's schools needed improved access to the internet, experience at Parrs Wood proved invaluable.
After a short stint running the U.S. division of media conglomerate Bertelsmann, Klein moved back to his native New York and became chancellor of New York City's school system, complete with 1.1 million students and dismal graduation rates.
New York City, the largest school system in the country, is following a growing wave of districts that have implemented online guidelines, often in the wake of scandal.
On the first day of school earlier this month, Mr. Bloomberg announced a new text-messaging system that allows parents to receive reminders about things such as school-lunch menus, test and report-card dates, as well as applications for free and reduced-price lunch.
Like all municipalities in New Hampshire, Lincoln funds its own school system through local property taxes.
In New York City, the largest public school system in the nation, schools are ordering Common Core-aligned materials now for the upcoming school year.
Unlike in Connecticut, individual school districts in New York must negotiate the system with their teachers unions.
Before joining IBM, he was deputy chancellor of schools for New York City, the nation's largest school system.
Christopher Ray, of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which represents independent school leaders, told BBC News the new system could potentially harm "students who only when they get their AS-level results in Year 12 realise how bright they are, who are perhaps in an underperforming school or college and who suddenly have the self-confidence to aim for the stars".
Parents in Herefordshire will now be alerted to school closures and transport disruption via a new automated system.
The Diane of today still praises decentralization and her new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System is still filled with Hayekian wisdom.
Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.
Diane Ravitch's important new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, will surely stir controversy, exactly as she intends.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Thursday the district would move to fire teachers who receive low ratings due to incompetence in two consecutive years if a new teacher-evaluation system isn't in place by the time school starts this fall.
State law pushed by Cuomo to protect federal Race to the Top funding required all of New York's nearly 700 school districts to have an approved evaluation system in place by Jan. 17 in order to receive a state aid increase in the current school year.
Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.
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