Sentences with phrase «local school boards decide»

Local school boards decide which subjects this education must cover and the grade level in which topics are introduced.

How does a local school board decide to hire a superintendent?

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The board decided to ask for suggestions from the school community, reported local NBC affiliate KXAN.

They would then choose their local superintendents and those school boards would decide which principals were fired and which were hired.»

Education is rarely a deciding issue in elections, aside from specialized offices such as state and local school boards and superintendents.

56 percent of Americans say local school boards should have the greatest influence in deciding what is taught in the public schools

One of the most significant local contests on the Nov. 5 ballot is in Cleveland, where citizens will decide whether to keep a 4 - year - old system of mayoral control of their district or return to an elected school board.

Louisiana has decided that all New Orleans charter schools now overseen by the state's Recovery School District will be placed under the control of the local school School District will be placed under the control of the local school school board.

When Johnny McKenzie, director of security for the Palm Beach County School Board, heard that some youths in his 73,000 - student district were mashing, rolling, and smoking hemp seeds — a high - quality bird seed that is sold in local pet stores — he decided to investigate further.

Maryland's state board of education has been asked to decide whether a local school board's selection of schools to be closed over the next two years was intended to thwart integration.

The state board will be responsible for deciding whether to allow local school board to approve charter contracts.

If you would like to see the local school board retain the ability to decide how to spend local tax dollars, and what schools should operate in Nashville, you must speak up NOW.

If you live in or near one of these 12 school districts, and all of the 12 districts formally apply for and receive charter granting authority from the State Board of Education later this year, you will need to decide whether to submit your charter school application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool districts, and all of the 12 districts formally apply for and receive charter granting authority from the State Board of Education later this year, you will need to decide whether to submit your charter school application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool district, or to the new Washington Charter School CommiSchool Commission.

LA Unified school board members will decide on Tuesday if they will join the local teachers union in a call...

The wise and all - knowing senators also decided to tell the people of Wake County how their school board will be elected because you can't let communities have any say about how their local schools are governed.

Approximately half of the positions on local and the state school boards will be decided.

Americans have clearly voiced their opinions with the 2014 PDK / Gallup poll results showing their preference for local school boards having the greatest influence in deciding what is taught in public schools, and their opposition to federal overreach.

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But in February 2003, the local school board made a textbook decision, a decision that made the parents coalesce and moved them to action in a way that had not happened since the school opened in 1999: The board decided to eliminate math textbooks for middle schools as a cost - cutting measure.

But some states have decided to punt these sorts of decisions back to local school boards in the coming years.

The governor and the state Legislature decided that the local school board wasn't up to the task of rebuilding, given a history of corruption scandals, turnover in the superintendent's office and rock - bottom test scores.

The staff of the State Board of Education will decide in the next several weeks whether to tinker further with regulations governing the Local Control and Accountability Plans — the accountability and budget plans that school districts completed for the first time in June.

LA Unified school board members will decide on Tuesday if they will join the local teachers union in a call to Sacramento to double education funding to $ 20,000 per student by 2020 and then to hit $ 25,000 by 2022.

As community leaders, school board members serve as advocates for the children in local public schools and must study, evaluate and decide what actions are in the best interest of those students.

Since these grants are largely block grants, it is up to local school boards to decide how to cope with the cuts.

Since then, Blase said his school has sought reauthorization from the local board and at the state level, and the state legislature has considered ways to work around the ruling, which the Supreme Court on Monday decided it would not revisit.

A broad coalition of more than 40 community and advocacy groups is jumping into LA Unified's prolonged spending debate, urging the board to allow individual schools, rather than centralized administrators, to decide how to spend the billions of dollars coming into the district from Gov. Jerry Brown «s Local Control Funding Formula program.

The Board decides controversies and disputes between local boards of education and employee organizations representing school system personnel.