Sentences with phrase «appointed city school board»

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De Blasio's aides on Monday warned of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the city goes back to the old Board of Education system where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.

Bruce Fraser, a retired Lockport city schools superintendent, has been appointed executive director of the Erie County Association of School Boards.

With little time left in the State Legislature session, it's not clear if there is time for any action on Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples - Stokes» proposal to shut down the elected city school board and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

The appointed inspector would need some kind of background in education and would serve, along with the schools chancellor, as a non-voting member of the city board.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner today appointed Mark D. Muhammad to the Syracuse city school board, where he will serve out the term of Commissioner Bill Bullen, who resigned Monday.

Before mayoral control in the city, the school board was made up of seven members, two of whom were appointed by the mayor and the rest by the borough presidents.

Yonkers» mayors appoint the school board, and the mayor's office and city council approve district budgets.

The state Public Employment Relations Board on May 15 rejected an appeal by the city's Department of Education of PERB's earlier decision to appoint a mediator to help resolve the issue of teacher evaluations in 33 schools.

(However, a number of states have recently authorized the mayors of big cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit, to appoint some or all of the members of their school boards, while New York gave the mayor of New York City the power to appoint a commissioner of education to run the city's schooCity the power to appoint a commissioner of education to run the city's schoocity's schools.)

The tentative plan would replace Baltimore's superintendent and school board with a team of executives and a new board appointed by both city and state officials, Ronald A. Peiffer, an assistant state superintendent, said last week.

In her previous role, Dr. Molina was appointed as a member of the California State Board of Education for five years while also serving as the Assistant Superintendent of Academic Improvement and Accountability for the Bakersfield City School District.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogetCity» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogetcity's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

Philadelphia's state - appointed school board (called the School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two school board (called the School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two School Reform Commission) recently suspended the expired contract that city's local of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has been working under for two years.

As the school board continues to weigh the options of appointing a replacement or staging a special election — stakeholders around the city are making their positions clear.

Ratliff attended a meeting of the Council of the Great City Schools — she was appointed to succeed Zimmer as the district's liaison to that council by Board President Richard Vladovic.

Popularly elected governors, state legislatures, mayors, city councils, and school boards determine education budgets and appoint top school administrators.

«If you close and consolidate campuses, the students will be able to take money to another campus,» said Juliet Stipeche, a former HISD board member recently appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner as the city's first education czar, explaining the logic behind school closures.

Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Rhee to head the city's 47,000 - student district, which was performing so abysmally that its board had been dissolved and the schools placed under direct mayoral control.

After Connecticut's Supreme Court invalidated the scheme, Mayor Finch again attempted to strip voters of their right to an elected school board with a revision to the city charter calling for an appointed board of education.

Bagley added, «Maybe «KJ» and his «reformers» can explain why the city of New Haven, which has an appointed board, has more failing schools than Bridgeport.»

When the notion of simply moving control of Bridgeport's school system to the City's mayor failed, the focus shifted to utilizing a provision in the state statutes that would allow the Commissioner of Education to throw out a community's elected board of education and install a panel appointed by the state.

But in 1997, the city agreed to share the power to appoint the school board with the state in exchange for an infusion of state funds.

Amid growing criticism of the city's appointed school board and calls for...

Prior to the 2002 legislation that placed Michael Bloomberg in near complete control of the city schools, New York City schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their rcity schools, New York City schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their rCity schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their rcity's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their role.

When the person who wants to be mayor, and who would appoint the members of the Hartford Board of Education, decides to enroll his child or children in a prestigious private school, rather than the city's public schools, it sends out a powerful message about privilege and entitlement.

The city's main district is now run by an elected school board after years of control by state - appointed emergency managers.

The schools were placed under the control of a board with representatives appointed by the city, the state education department, and Empower Schools, a private education cschools were placed under the control of a board with representatives appointed by the city, the state education department, and Empower Schools, a private education cSchools, a private education company.

Behind the rhetoric of «transparency» and «inclusion,» CPS under the administrators appointed by Rahm Emanuel's Board of Education are going out of their way to deny the public access to key information and to make sure that reporters — especially those with cameras and video cameras — are denied access to the growing mass movement across the city that is demanding no cuts this school year.

Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney wants to replace the commission with a local school board that would be appointed by him and approved by the City Council.

After overseeing the Philadelphia school system for 16 years, the state - run School Reform Commission (SRC) is disbanding and turning over the city schools to a nine - member, locally appointed school school system for 16 years, the state - run School Reform Commission (SRC) is disbanding and turning over the city schools to a nine - member, locally appointed school School Reform Commission (SRC) is disbanding and turning over the city schools to a nine - member, locally appointed school school board.

By this summer, a new nine - member school board, appointed by Kenney and approved by the city council, should assume control.

According to the transition plan, Philadelphia's Mayor will appoint members of the school board, with those appointments being approved by the City Council.