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The churches will be allowed to continue to meet in public schools, thanks to a permanent injunction issued today from a district court judge.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitSchool districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitschool kitchens.

«Allowing individual states to design their own benchmarks for the program could result in inequities in many school districts, including Chicago,» said Jack Costello, director of food services for Chicago Public Schools.

The Chicago - based Thomas More Society, on behalf of former Arlington Heights resident Jim Finnegan, sent a letter to Park District officials and village leaders this week asking that a privately funded Nativity scene be allowed in the public North School Park.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 16 are presenting spending plans that increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy.

That law allows school district voters and government boards to exceed the cap, but only after making public votes to override.

CECs allow for parent involvement at the Community School District level and play an essential role in shaping education policies for New York City public schools.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

For the past two years, Talk of the Sound has been gathering information — photos, videos, invoices, receipts, bank statements, checks, spreadsheets and other public and internal records — that show a long - standing pattern where the City School District of New Rochelle allows the operation of private businesses for personal benefit of select individuals within the public schools in New Rochelle.

These included changing the format of Panel for Educational Policy meetings to allow for more public comment, revising the city's school closing and co-location processes to make it more difficult for the city to close or co-locate schools, adding parent training centers so that parents in groups like the Community Education Councils can participate knowledgeably in the structures of governance, and restoring a degree of authority to district superintendents vis - à - vis principals.

Obama administration plans to issue a sweeping decree telling public school districts to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sSchool districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public sschool for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public schoolschool.

A 2005 study by the Rhode Island Education Partnership, for example, found that public school districts in that state uniformly allowed employees to select their own health carrier and plan design and that 73 percent of districts offered no - cost health benefits for retirees; not one of the private - sector firms in the state the study examined offered these perks.

A spokesperson for Dayton Public explained that because the district doesn't necessarily assign children to a neighborhood school and families are allowed to choose where they send their children, parents have to register in order to obtain a school assignment that would allow them to qualify for a voucher.

The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of - district public school of their choice.

The system attaches funds to individual students, rather than to schools or school districts, and then allows students to choose any public school in the district, with neighborhood students» having preference at each school.

A school that misses AYP two years in a row has to allow students to transfer to a better - performing public school in the same district.

Open Enrollment: allows students to transfer to districts or public schools other than the one to which they are assigned by address.

So he exhorted lawmakers to consider «chartering,» as a way to allow entities other than school districts to establish new public schools that would be open to students regardless of where they lived, thereby beginning to withdraw the monopoly school districts held over the provision of public education.

The authors examine four common practices that allow public funds to flow to schools for students who have left the district.

Her useful blast at faddism got ensnared in a familiar trap: her stance allows the compromises and accidents from a century ago that shaped today's public schools and districts to define the mission and scope of future public schooling.

The first teachers» union contract approved for one of Massachusetts» 57 charter schools that operate outside a local public school district will allow performance - based teacher pay and a longer school day.

There were also several barriers — and subsequent workarounds — identified around technology and infrastructure: grappling with a slow and unwieldy public contract code for technology and even furniture procurement; allowing for Bring Your Own Device programs given the state's free public education clause; and struggling to provide sufficient technology access at school and home for all students if the district wanted to adopt digital materials.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

It has gained attention because of 1989 and 1994 state laws that allowed creation of a special public school district serving only the small community's children with disabilities.

That's why the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) allows children with disabilities to attend private schools at public expense when their districts can not provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE).

Surely, a school district could allow a public academy to use assessment measures better aligned to its SEL curriculum and standards framework than an existing model — but in addition to, not a replacement for, state and host district assessments.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

Intradistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school within their school district (i.e., not just within their attendance zones).

Interdistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school outside of their school district.

Approved school - choice bill to allow students to transfer to public schools outside their home districts.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

Public schools in Charlotte, N.C., could go the way of modern - day sports stadiums under a proposal that would allow district officials to name rooms and other school facilities for corporate donors.

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

A new study looks at the impact of co-location, the practice of allowing a charter school to open in the same building as a district public school.

To investigate the public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of students into account when assigning students to schools?»

New mayor Bill de Blasio made waves last Thursday when his administration withdrew three agreements that would have allowed public charter schools to share space with district schools in public school buildings.

Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to review a Florida school district's policy allowing student messages at graduation.

The provision — sort of a policy cocktail mixing equal parts school choice and school safety — says that any student attending a «persistently dangerous» public school must be allowed to transfer to a «safe» school in that district.

Governor Hogan's original executive order — which the attorney general's office said he may not have had the authority to issue in the first place — established such limits, creating an unbroken summer break for Maryland public schools from June 15 to Labor Day, but also allowing the State Board of Education (to which the Governor appointed me and — so far — eight other members) to issue waivers to districts that present «compelling justification» for exceeding those limits.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

It would also allow school districts to convert an unlimited number of failing public schools into charter schools or — in cases of severely failing schools — authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to force public schools to convert.

The measure would have allowed residents of districts to vote to make them «renewed school districts» in which «nonprofit organizations may operate publicly funded independent public schools with parental choice and revised state regulation.»

«Since this program saves taxpayers money and the legislature will need to appropriate more funding to return these students to the local public schools, which will lead to increase costs to the local district; the legislature should instead provide the funding for the scholarship program to allow parents to choose schools they believe will best educate their children,» Duplessis added.

The new funds would be used to encourage districts to adopt a controversial form of choice: Allowing local, state and federal funds to follow children to whichever public school they choose.

And it also allows policy makers to better understand which aspects of public education are working and which are not, by having a common measure to compare states, districts, and schools to each other.