Sentences with phrase «authority of school districts»

Most States acknowledge the authority of school districts to make rules governing school business, including the authority to adopt and enforce a student discipline code.

But critics in Georgia, including a set of school systems that filed suit, charged that the law establishing that state's commission usurped the local authority of school districts and inappropriately drained public money from those systems.

At a hearing on the injunction in Fort Worth on Aug. 12, lawyers for Texas said the guidelines usurp the authority of school districts nationwide.

The governing board of a school district or community college district may proceed pursuant to this chapter on behalf of a school facilities improvement district that is created by and under the exclusive authority of the school district or community college district and act on behalf of the school facilities district as provided pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 15300).

The difference is that magnet schools remain under the authority of the school district governance structure, whereas charter schools are independently operated public schools.40 Finally, local school boards may view charters as competition and may unduly reject applications.

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In the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Code 3313.717 allows the board of education of each school district and the administrative authority of each chartered nonpublic school to require the placement of an AED in each school under the control of the board or authority.

A school district or governing authority may authorize a licensed health care provider who is not a physician to make an assessment or grant clearance for purpose of this policy (requirements for this is outlined in the statute).

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

Education experts have a long history of imposing well - meaning but ineffective policy changes on schools, and the authority to reform schools often lies within each state or even within individual school districts..

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A more efficient approach would have each state's school food authority («SFA,» i.e., the state agency charged with administering the National School Lunch Program, usually the state department of education) expressly require that its districts purchase only domestically raised and processed school food authority («SFA,» i.e., the state agency charged with administering the National School Lunch Program, usually the state department of education) expressly require that its districts purchase only domestically raised and processed School Lunch Program, usually the state department of education) expressly require that its districts purchase only domestically raised and processed meats.

The CEO of the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, Moses Asaga gave the hint when he led a delegation to commission a modern computer laboratory for the Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday ordered the acting chief of the troubled Hempstead school district to send her monthly progress reports on efforts to turn the system around, declaring that local authorities have not yet «adequately addressed» festering problems.

Questions during the post-speech «gaggle» included the cost of a special election, his reaction to a New York Republican Party 50 Shades of Grey parody of Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about Barack Obama, the expected Republican candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election, state legislature financial disclosure forms, the refusal of Port Authority commissioners to accede to Cuomo and Chris Christie's request to resign, his planned trip to Cuba, congestion pricing, and UFT comments asserting that the governor has shortchanged New York City schools by $ 2.5 billion.

Cuomo has mentioned several things in the last week: a surcharge on for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft to generate funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, requirements that school districts provide a school - by - school breakdown of their spending, and more funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

In Nassau, Ryder said officials at 40 of the county's 56 school districts have access to the Rave Panic Button, a cellphone alert system that allows teachers or administrators to notify authorities about an active - shooter situation with the push of a button.

A state Supreme Court judge Tuesday ordered the Long Island Power Authority to pay Nassau school districts the full amount of tax payments billed by the county for the 2015 - 2016 school year.

Following a review of the Executive Order announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Dec. 22, legal counsel for the WCSD has advised the following: «Under the current Executive Order, school districts do not have the legal authority to accept pre-payments for the 2018 - 19 school year.»

Miller Place school authorities confirmed they have assigned armed personnel to each of the district's four schools, joining a growing list of Long Island school districts clamping down on campus security.

A state Supreme Court judge ordered the Long Island Power Authority to pay Nassau school districts the full amount of tax payments billed by the county for the 2015 - 2016 school year.

And the authorities of the Fumbisi Senior High Agric School in the Builsa South District, where Starr News captured the surprise, are considering making more than just a memorial out of what the president did.

And the agreements from all the over 700 school districts in the state will now be subject to the authority of State Education Commissioner John King.

Looking ahead to next month's potential cash - flow crisis, Megna said Paterson will send up a separate bill asking for the statutory authority to push some of the payments due to school districts by June 1 to later in the month, allowing the state to draw more heavily on its pool of short - term emergency funds.

Most of the positions in Oneida County departments, towns, villages, school districts, (except cities of Rome, Utica and Sherrill), Oneida - Herkimer Solid Waste Management Authority, Mohawk Valley Community College, (except education positions), and Mohawk Valley Water Authority are filled by one of the above criteria.

Examples of the early successes of task force members include legally establishing its operating authority and scope of operation in the State Budget, requiring a study of re-use options of the Indian Point property, adding an additional $ 15 million to the State's Power Plant Cessation Mitigation Fund starting in 2020, extending the timeline for payments from that fund, and authorizing the HendrickHudson School District to start a reserve fund to plan for future tax impacts.

Its analysis of local authority data suggests about 1,000 of the 2,277 local school planning districts will be over capacity by 2015 - 16, the BBC said.

«Before denying any student a meal, school food authorities shall carefully consider the negative consequences of such an action,» the Hoosick Falls district says on its website.

Until 1996, the community school boards had authority over the elementary and middle schools in their districts, including the power to appoint superintendents and to approve the superintendents» choice of principals.

However, these upgrades could make it more economically feasible for the County to begin borrowing under its own authority once again like all other local governments and school districts including the City of Buffalo (which has a rating of A + one step below Erie County's new rating).

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

The next governor and Legislature could create a set of new retirement - plan options for local governments, school districts and public authorities to choose from.

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The school on Wednesday released a video of Jones» statement as investigators examine several videos showing what occurred on a Capital District Transportation Authority bus.

Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Walcott are pushing for new state legislation that would give school districts the authority to fire employees accused of sexual misconduct regardless of the findings of independent arbitrators.

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.

Henry Hogo, assistant deputy executive officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, said his agency offers guidelines for choosing school sites, but there are no regulations since it has no authority over land use planning.

The department amended its regulations in the wake of a 1983 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in National Soft Drink Association v. Block that the department exceeded its rulemaking authority when it issued orders on the «time and place» in which junk food could be sold on school grounds.

Edison Schools Inc., already pummeled by falling stock prices and opposition to its work, is being booted out of school districts in Texas and Georgia, and has come under investigation by state and federal authorities who want to know how it secured two contracts in Pennsylvania.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) shifts a great deal of authority from the federal government to states and school districts.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs wrote in a 20 - page decision that the mayor's plan violates several provisions of the state constitution by shifting, in part, «management and control of the 708,000 - student Los Angeles Unified School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&school system.»

This proposal builds on some of the lessons learned from the charter school movement and would allow effective charter networks like Green Dot, KIPP, and North Star to operate as school support organizations on a level playing field with districts, with equal funding and authority.

In light of these extraordinary achievements, the following statement may be surprising: Because of an extremely difficult relationship with the Novato Unified School District, which has oversight authority for the school, MSAT no longer eSchool District, which has oversight authority for the school, MSAT no longer eschool, MSAT no longer exists.

The statute that created the Excellence Commission allowed local school boards to petition the state board of education to retain exclusive authority to sanction charter schools within their districts.

Not surprisingly, most Massachusetts school districts, including Boston's, tend to support more Horace Mann charter schools but oppose any increase in the Commonwealth variety, since Horace Mann charters provide host districts with a great deal of discretion and ongoing oversight authority.

In 2009, Mayor Menino tacitly supported an increase in the number of «proven» Commonwealth charter schools that could operate in Boston as part of a broader education - reform bill that invested school districts with greater authority to intervene in low - performing schools and permitted districts to establish a few Horace Mann charter schools without the required union sign - off.

When the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the state of Michigan's school turnaround district, launched in the fall of 2012 with 15 schools, hopes for rebirth in Detroit were high in many quarters.

The high court upheld the state school board's ultimate authority to overrule a local district's rejection of a charter application, saying the provision in the state's charter law did not violate the state constitution.