Sentences with phrase «away local control of the schools»

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Instead, he started working with local youths and traveling around to speak to various high school baseball organizations, extolling the virtues of throwing more often while regulating effort, controlling the strike zone — down and away, down and away — and learning how to pitch.

ALBANY — After they walked away last week without taking action on mayoral control of New York City schools or renewing local tax authorizations, state lawmakers will convene Wednesday — at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's command — for a special session.

«The governor's plan is essentially to strip away local control and turn a school over either to an outside entity of his choosing or to the state itself,» she told the committee.

KINGSTON >> School trustees are asking state lawmakers to recognize that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking to take control of education away from communities while making contradictory budget demands on local school bSchool trustees are asking state lawmakers to recognize that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seeking to take control of education away from communities while making contradictory budget demands on local school bschool boards.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

Academies were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government back in 2000 as a way to raise standards in schools by taking them away from the control of local authorities and offering more autonomy over finances and day to day school management.

Even though the public would have the state take control of local districts when fraud is identified, public opinion is shifting away from federal direction to local control of the schools.

This is entirely predictable; in a country that values «local control» of our schools, we blush at the thought of far - away elites dictating the content to be taught in our schools.

For others, CCSS interferes with local control of schools, limits teacher creativity, and diverts classroom time and energy away from instruction to test preparation.

As schools move away from local authority control and have to manage the provision of school dinners we can expect to see an increase in the adoption of cashless catering systems.

The move away from the financial control of the local authority, in part for schools and completely for academies, has delivered a new set of demands for staff, leaving many unsure if they are getting it quite right.

«As public schools nationwide struggle for funding, complicated by the impact of poverty and politics, corporate reformers see opportunity to take away local controls of our community schools,» said Lyn Hoyt, president of Tennesseans Reclaiming Education Excellence (TREE).

What's not real, Neal says, are the arguments being used to threaten legislators — namely, that it's a federal scheme to tell teachers what to teach, that private groups will mine and profit from test results, and that Common Core will take local control of schools away from Oklahomans.

Critics say the tests pull too much time and resources away from the classroom, diminish local control of schools and are stressful for students.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

There is broad acknowledgment that local schools are performing better since Hurricane Katrina washed away New Orleans» failing public education system and state authorities took control of many campuses here.

This could include taking schools away from local authority control, converting them into academies - directly funded by central government - and putting them under the leadership of high - achieving head teachers.

There is a conversation happening in the City around the issue of local control of the School District of Philadelphia, and moving away from a state run district.

That provision is beneficial, but it has unfortunately become the lever that congress uses to wrestle control of schools away from local communities and parents.

In addition to the general concerns that Common Core is not needed, harms students and takes control of curriculum and testing away from teachers and local school districts, there are many specific concerns that upset parents and teachers.

That bill was introduced to «sweep away bureaucratic and legal loopholes» and speed up the process of dealing with failing schools by taking them out of local authority control and putting them in the hands of academy sponsors.

By this time next week, schools will have received their first batch of state aid based on Gov. Jerry Brown's Local Control Funding Formula even though entitlement calculations are months away from being finalized.

Their legislative agenda also includes taking away local citizen control of public schools and supporting the Malloy administration's effort to punish school districts in which more than 5 percent of the parents opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

As hard - pressed, economically - challenged communities are starved of financial resources, the ability of citizens to control the education destiny of their local schools is being systematically taken away from their duly elected public servants.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolSchool, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolschool away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this schoolschool operator at the end of this schoolschool year.

So faced with the refection of some charter school plans, the neoconservative answer is — do away with local control.

Mr. Naeyaert spoke nary a word about the Governor's decisions to strip local control for the schools away from Detroit, the disbanding of the elected school board, or the disastrous working and learning conditions in Detroit's schools that have necessitated the recent sick outs in the city.

Plaintiffs alleged in their lawsuit that HB7069 took away some of the constitutional powers to make decisions about public schools and undermined local control of public schools.