Sentences with phrase «cede school control»

Click here to read a recent report issued by Utah's Attorney General on Common Core indicating that it doesn't cede school control to feds.

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Schools must use an «open admissions process,» ceding control of their admissions processes to the state.

District administrators had announced a proposal last week to cede control over the 10 schools to a charter school operator, Energized For STEM Academy Inc..

The decision not to cede control of 10 failing schools means the Texas Education Agency could assume control of the Houston district.

To avoid forced campus closures or a state takeover, the district proposed using the provisions of another law that would give it a two - year reprieve by ceding control over the 10 schools to an outside organization.

Houston school board members ended their meeting Tuesday night without voting on a plan to cede control over 10 low - performing schools after a skirmish erupted and police escorted members of the public — nearly all of whom opposed the proposal — out of the room.

The so - called parent trigger process, now making its way through state legislatures nationwide, lets parents at underperforming schools organize and petition for major reforms, from firing the principal and half the staff to ceding control of the school to a charter operator.

Known as the parent trigger law, the legislation allows a majority of parents at an underperforming school to force major changes ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to ceding control to a charter operator.

State education agency says if Houston district wants outside partners to help run low - performing schools, it must cede control to the partners

In May 2010, frustrated principals at three innovation schools obtained a legal opinion declaring the district in violation of the innovation law because district leaders refused to cede control of budget and staffing.

The contracts are an example of how the charter schools sometimes cede control of public dollars to private companies that have no legal obligation to act in the best interests of the schools or taxpayers.

• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... • Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...