Sentences with phrase «authority over public education»

The Newark mayor looked into the camera and said: «Even though I have no formal authority over public education in Newark whatsoever...»

«[O] ur constitutions, past and present, have limited governmental authority over the public education of Georgia's children to that level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents,» Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein wrote in the decision in Gwinnett County School District v. Cox.

Historically, state policymakers have delegated their authority over public education to local school districts, particularly in matters of curriculum and instruction.

The dominant approach has treated school boards as legally subordinate to their states, recognizing that most state constitutions explicitly assign responsibility for and authority over public education to the state government.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act accelerates these trends by exerting a strong degree of federal authority over public education.

New York «had set forth a clear and comprehensive statement of its vision,» wrote one reviewer, who noted that the «ambitious agenda» would be helped by «the extensive authority over public education held by The Board of Regents» and «the large network of 37 District Superintendents who oversee Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).»

Not exact matches

State governments are typically successful in exercising the authority their state constitutions give them over public education.

If so, there is reason to believe the race for state school chief will once again prove critical to CTA and charter supporters even though the Superintendent of Public Instruction has little actual authority over education policy in the state.

The almost constant carping by some members of the Youngstown Board of Education about the academic distress commission exerting its statutory authority over the system's academic recovery has become a public embarrassment.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

In a brazen effort to hand over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools of Washington D.C. and divert more scarce public funds to another out - of - state charter school management company, a special meeting of the Hartford Board of Education has suddenly been called for tomorrow to approve a resolution «requesting» that Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, use his authority to simply hand Clark Elementary over to Friendship Charter Schools without any further debate or discussion.

Sec. 1 - 225 and Sec. 1 - 200) states that «meetings of all public agencies shall be open to the public», and defines public agency as «including any committee of, or created by, any such office, subdivision, agency, department, institution, bureau, board, commission, authority or official», and defines «meeting» as «any hearing or other proceeding of a public agency... to discuss or act upon a matter over which the public agency has supervision control, jurisdiction or advisory power», nonetheless, the State Department of Education attempted to keep the «training session» for superintendents closed to the public, stating it «is not a venue for members of the general public to participate.»

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.