Sentences with phrase «elected superintendents make»

Elected superintendents make up less than one percent of all superintendents nationwide.

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Outgoing Southold Town Highway Superintendent Pete Harris suggested during a budget presentation Monday that the town switch to a pay scale for elected officials — a move he said would make more funds available for new hires and the purchase of necessary equipment.

The commission, set up to find ways to make the state government more efficient, is expected this week to issue recommendations that include transforming the office of state superintendent from an elected position to an appointed one and eventually divesting the education department of many of its duties and powers.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

• Empower county superintendents to enforce accountability rules, make the independently elected state superintendent of public instruction a sort of «inspector general» for school quality, place state education policy under the governor, and make the state board of education advisory to the governor.

District School Board — These elected officials get recommendations from the public and the superintendent to deliver their range of decision - making authority.

He says he hasn't formed an opinion on making the Superintendent of Public Instruction an appointed — rather than an elected — position.

NSBA's audience reaches the entire district level decision making team made up of superintendents, school administrators, elected school members, school business officials, technology directors and more.

Gone is the age - old process where superintendents recommend names and the Board of Education, as the elected representatives of the people, makes the final decision.

Amendment proposals: Erika Donalds, a member of the Collier County School Board and the Florida Constitution Revision Commission, is proposing an amendment to the Florida constitution that would make all district school superintendents appointed rather than elected.

· Provide district leaders who are knowledgeable about education and urban contexts and skillful in collaborative and democratic decision - making processes, starting with a credentialed superintendent of CPS, and transitioning from mayoral control to a democratically elected school board that is accountable to the public.