Sentences with phrase «by elected school boards»

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

Its policy to have all public education follow the same state statutes and regulations with oversight by elected school boards differs from many choice groups.

But the Washington Supreme Court's September ruling held charters can not receive state funding under «common school» statutes because — unlike traditional public schools — charters are not overseen by an elected school board.

The case was explicitly dismissed by the Colorado Supreme Court in striking down the voucher program established by the elected school board in Douglas County.

Here, Cotto clarified that the reason Achievement First does not receive local funding is because it is not governed by an elected school board.

Shael Polakow - Suransky, the president of Bank Street College of Education, who was previously the second - in - command at the New York City Department of Education, said that governance by elected school boards was «one of the pathologies of the American education system.»

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

It is one thing to share the authors» concerns about equity and current threats to social cohesion (which I do) and quite another to think they have made the case either that charter schools are threats to those values or that schools controlled by elected school boards effectively promote them.

Americans have long believed that local school systems ought to be governed locally, usually by elected school boards.

«As this report goes to press, those changes continue as a new superintendent steps in, with a mandate to continue improving school quality while leading a transition back to local control of the district by the elected school board.

If Americans thought they controlled school policy by electing school boards, they best think again.

The Court decided that public charter schools like ours are not «common schools,» as they are not overseen by an elected school board, and therefore can not receive public funding, basing their decision on a precedent set in 1909.

LAUSD is the largest district in the nation run by an elected school board.

They still have not met the court ruling and their Paramount Duty to fully fund the public schools in Washington State governed by elected school boards.

In the Senate version, SB2508, school districts will continue to be overseen by elected school boards, but individual public schools may be converted to charters managed by district school boards.

Atlanta, Georgia, is losing its neighborhood public schools run by elected school boards, just like Washington DC, Denver, Oakland and Indianapolis.

Those programs are governed by an appointed board of trustees, not by an elected school board.»

But opponents said neither proposal sufficiently addressed concerns the court raised in their 5 - 4 decision, which essentially held charter schools could not receive public funding because they weren't overseen by elected school boards.

After nearly a year of deliberation, the Court ruled that privately operated, publicly funded charter schools do not qualify to receive «common school» public funds since they are not overseen by an elected school board.

The court said charter schools were unconstitutional because they were being funded out of the same pot of money as regular public schools but without taxpayer control since they're not overseen by elected school boards.