Sentences with phrase «by the elected school board in»

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 role.

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(4) In addition to leading the church to address social justice concerns in such practical and far - reaching ways, Dr. Smith has served a term on the Oakland School Board after being elected by more than 80 percent of the votIn addition to leading the church to address social justice concerns in such practical and far - reaching ways, Dr. Smith has served a term on the Oakland School Board after being elected by more than 80 percent of the votin such practical and far - reaching ways, Dr. Smith has served a term on the Oakland School Board after being elected by more than 80 percent of the vote.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

Members of the Buffalo School Board are expected tonight to consider a second resolution seeking the removal of Paladino from his elected position, saying he should be ousted because he violated district policy by discussing sharing information that was discussed in executive session.

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.

Before the Legislature gave the mayor control over the schools in 2002, they were governed by a Board of Education and 32 elected community school boards.

Yes, a vast majority of school districts in the country are run by elected boards.

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.»

In Erie, Pennsylvania, voters chose Tyler Titus, a transgender man, for the School Board, a post won by trans woman Gerri Cannon in Somersworth, New Hampshire, while Raven Matherne, a transgender woman, was elected to the Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives, Stephe Koontz, a trans woman, was elected to Doraville, Georgia's City Council and Lisa Middleton, also transgender, was elected to the Palm Springs City Council in CaliforniIn Erie, Pennsylvania, voters chose Tyler Titus, a transgender man, for the School Board, a post won by trans woman Gerri Cannon in Somersworth, New Hampshire, while Raven Matherne, a transgender woman, was elected to the Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives, Stephe Koontz, a trans woman, was elected to Doraville, Georgia's City Council and Lisa Middleton, also transgender, was elected to the Palm Springs City Council in Californiin Somersworth, New Hampshire, while Raven Matherne, a transgender woman, was elected to the Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives, Stephe Koontz, a trans woman, was elected to Doraville, Georgia's City Council and Lisa Middleton, also transgender, was elected to the Palm Springs City Council in Californiin California.

Paladino entered politics by being elected to the South Buffalo seat on the school board of Buffalo Public Schools in 2013, and he was reelected in 2016.

In an opening statement at a hearing in Albany to determine if Paladino should be ousted from his elected School Board position, attorney Dennis Vacco painted Paladino as a victim of an effort by fellow School Board members to punish him for making controversial, but constitutionally protected remarks about President Obama and his wife in another newspaper storIn an opening statement at a hearing in Albany to determine if Paladino should be ousted from his elected School Board position, attorney Dennis Vacco painted Paladino as a victim of an effort by fellow School Board members to punish him for making controversial, but constitutionally protected remarks about President Obama and his wife in another newspaper storin Albany to determine if Paladino should be ousted from his elected School Board position, attorney Dennis Vacco painted Paladino as a victim of an effort by fellow School Board members to punish him for making controversial, but constitutionally protected remarks about President Obama and his wife in another newspaper storin another newspaper story.

«Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, you can even throw in Albany — there you have school boards directly elected by voters,» he said.

We could accomplish this by vesting these authorities in the democratically elected mayor, the democratically elected D.C. state board of education, a new «portfolio management» body, or a new type of school board.

On election day last week, voters in Douglas County, Colorado elected a slate of school board members who want to undo the reforms embraced by the last board.

District schools are operated by more than 14,000 locally elected boards, and this decentralization also creates the potential for wide disparities in school practice.

In fact, Bobb had been elected president of the Capital's school board four years ago, but was sidelined by the Fenty / Rhee stiff arm.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

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.

Voters in Des Moines, Iowa, turned out in record numbers last week to defeat an openly gay school board veteran and elect two candidates backed by local and statewide conservative groups.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Meanwhile, voters have responded to the progress by electing a 7 - 0 majority to the school board in support of superintendent Tom Boasberg's package of reforms.

The poster boy for PM, New Orleans, with its exceptional hurricane origin and large charter sector to advocate on its behalf, reverted to control by the previously reviled and inept locally elected school board in about a decade.

The reality is that, while some 96 percent of school boards are elected (according to data collected by Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute), these elections are usually low - turnout, low - interest affairs in which the vast majority of ordinary citizens play no role at all.

(Our own Checker Finn has not been a fan of school boards for some time and as recently as 2010 wrote, in National Affairs, that «it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.»)

Several members of an American Indian tribe in rural South Dakota are suing the local school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

Beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year, the board may elect not to conduct an evaluation of a teacher who is participating in the teacher residency program established under section 3319.223 of the Revised Code for the year during which that teacher takes, for the first time, the majority of the performance - based assessment prescribed by the state board of education for resident educators.

Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in state legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.

He was appointed to the DC Public Charter School Board by Mayor Anthony Williams in 2003, and was elected Chairman of the Board in 2004, and served in that capacity until February 2010.

A superintendent managed all schools in the school district, which were governed by a locally - elected school board.

Enroll Indy was founded in 2015 by Fellow Caitlin Hannon, a former Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) teacher and elected IPS board member.

The «details tucked into dozens of plans being turned in to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos this week were hammered out by a hodgepodge of elected and appointed officials — from governors and legislators to state school board members and local superintendents — during sometimes sparsely attended meetings, caucuses, and task force sessions.»

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

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.

By providing parents, students and teachers with a way to engage in the process, set districts priorities and lift up our democratically elected School Board, we are giving education justice a fighting chance against education «reformers» who seek to privatize and profit off our public schools.

WHEREAS, the OSPP disenfranchises Milwaukee County voters, particularly in the City of Milwaukee, by removing schools from the oversight of the peoples» elected school boards; and

When Richard Vladovic was elected by his colleagues as President of the LA Unified school board in July, observers predicted a much slower moving agenda.

Schools and Communities United reinforced the message that the OSPP, better known as simply The Takeover, sought to disempower the democratically elected school board of Milwaukee by placing schools in the hands of an appointed commisSchools and Communities United reinforced the message that the OSPP, better known as simply The Takeover, sought to disempower the democratically elected school board of Milwaukee by placing schools in the hands of an appointed commisschools in the hands of an appointed commissioner.

CCSA benefactor Reed Hastings set a goal of ending publicly elected school boards in the next 20 - 30 years by privatizing California's education system with charter schools.

Over the last week, 100 education advocates, families, educators, elected leaders, representatives from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and Schools (CPS) and the Illinois State Board of Education, gathered in locations across the city for problem - solving forums to discuss ways in which schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and schools can support students impacted by violence, poverty, and trauma.

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

The four board members in the majority, who were elected with charter school support, have told LA School Report that it's about time the second - largest school district in the country with the largest number of charter schools revamp its «District Required Language» (or DRL) that is necessary for a charter school to be authorized by LA Unschool support, have told LA School Report that it's about time the second - largest school district in the country with the largest number of charter schools revamp its «District Required Language» (or DRL) that is necessary for a charter school to be authorized by LA UnSchool Report that it's about time the second - largest school district in the country with the largest number of charter schools revamp its «District Required Language» (or DRL) that is necessary for a charter school to be authorized by LA Unschool district in the country with the largest number of charter schools revamp its «District Required Language» (or DRL) that is necessary for a charter school to be authorized by LA Unschool to be authorized by LA Unified.

Members of the eight head teacher boards will be elected by the heads of schools in their respective regions.

Student & Community Focused FCSBM affirms the importance of local control by accountable elected school board members in service to parents, students and taxpayers.

Los Angeles Unified is by far the largest school district in the nation to be governed by an elected board.

In Celebrating National Charter Schools Week Senator Romero not only noted that this week is a time to celebrate the tremendous success of public charter schools but the continued voracious opposition to public charter schools by unions and the local Boards of Trustees the unions pay toSchools Week Senator Romero not only noted that this week is a time to celebrate the tremendous success of public charter schools but the continued voracious opposition to public charter schools by unions and the local Boards of Trustees the unions pay toschools but the continued voracious opposition to public charter schools by unions and the local Boards of Trustees the unions pay toschools by unions and the local Boards of Trustees the unions pay to elect.

We applaud the Legislature and Governor for their vision and courage to move Florida in the direction of being a national leader in education by enhancing parental choice, school accountability, and local control through our duly elected School Board Meschool accountability, and local control through our duly elected School Board MeSchool Board Members.

In at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeoverIn at least 20 states, lawmakers have stripped locally elected school board members of their power in impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeoverin impoverished, mostly minority communities, leaving parents without a voice — or a vote — in their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeoverin their children's education, according to a News21 state - by - state analysis of school takeovers.

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.