Sentences with phrase «charter change proposals»

Thursday evening, officials held four back - to - back public hearings on charter change proposals to eliminate several city departments.

Not exact matches

The Poloncarz administration said in a statement that, «It's worth keeping in mind that the County Executive's proposal was designed to be a stand - alone expansion of ECDOH's lead poisoning prevention program, and regardless of concerns about proposed City Charter changes it is a well - thought out plan to improve Erie County's response to lead poisoning.»

Legislator Nonna's proposal would deny the people of Westchester County a vote in the following fundamental changes to our Charter:

The Charter Revision Commission, the panel appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to consider changes to the city constitution, plans to take a serious look at a proposal that would eliminate the need for voters to make a second trip to the polls for runoff elections.

The United Federation of Teachers is taking aim at Andrew Cuomo's proposal to extend the charter cap as it hones its strategy to combat the governor's ambitious package of education - policy changes.

There will soon be two charter revision commissions preparing to recommend changes to the charter for approval or disapproval by voters: one is sponsored by the mayor, with recommendations due this fall, and the other by the City Council in partnership with Public Advocate James and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, with proposals due in 2019.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.

Among other changes, the Senate's proposal would include donations made to charter schools and would provide a credit for home - school supplies.

A proposal to amend the county charter to require voter approval of any changes to the program was originally tabled at a July meeting, which worried some environmentalists at the time.

The decrease is likely also driven by the changed political calculus for both unions and charter groups after most of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sweeping education reform proposals failed during last year's legislative session.

The 2000 referendum on whether to approve an amendment to the District's charter that would change the size and method of selecting the board of education provided a very narrow victory for the mayor's proposal.

The predominantly black wards four, five, seven, and eight rejected the proposal, believing that the existing system provided residents with more representation than the proposed charter change.

But perhaps the most intriguing bit of the mayor's lengthy list of proposals was a demand that the state change its law to allow students who attend a charter elementary school to receive preference in the lottery to be admitted to the middle and high schools operated by the charter school.

The longer those trends continue, the more likely it is Republican proposals to expand charter and voucher schools will gain support among parents — maybe even parents in (rapidly changing) Madison.

A Republican - controlled Legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change or reduce funding for public schools, including increasing the number of private voucher schools across the state, expanding the number of independent charter schools and applying letter grades to schools in report cards.

The success of the charter school movement in most of the country undercuts the claims leveled by opponents to turn Washington voters against a proposal for change, one which had bipartisan approval of the Legislature and Democratic governor Gary Locke.

Update: Los Angeles County's board of education on Tuesday denied Denon Carr's charter application but urged him to make changes to the proposal and resubmit it as quickly as possible to either the Inglewood School Board or the state board.

Farrow said the Senate bill will likely change before its tentatively scheduled Jan. 27 hearing and dropping the key provision of creating one board to oversee public and charter schools and another to oversee private voucher schools could happen if public response to the proposal indicates it's not a popular idea.

Not to be outdone, the charter school lobby group ConnCAN continued to lament the changes made to the Commissioner's Network which was Malloy's proposal to allow Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Education (and the lawyer who helped form and direct Achievement First for eight years) to take over up to 25 urban schools.

Among other changes, the legislative committees also removed a proposal that would have paid for an additional 275 slots in public charter schools, reduced proposed funding to comply with the Sheff vs. O'Neill court order to reduce racial isolation in Hartford schools and sharply cut back a plan for various teacher training and leadership programs.

Legislative proposals to change the formula for funding special education in charter schools have, to date, been unsuccessful.

That represents a change from the district's most recent offer to house its K - 6 students at Egan and 7 - 8 students at Blach Intermediate School, a proposal charter school officials previously blasted as deficient.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission Education Committee today voted to support a proposal by Commission member Erika Donalds to change language in the Florida Constitution that will authorize the Legislature to enact general laws providing alternative processes to authorize the establishment of charter schools.

The board unanimously approved a proposal to create a new pre-K to 8 charter school called the Elm City Montessori School, starting with 51 New Haven kids ages 3 to 5 in the fall of 2014 (Later changed to fall 2015).

The Assembly has come out hard with policy proposals that would greatly damage the flexibility of charters, and in the case of enrollment and retention policy changes, seems aimed at putting charters out of existence.

While the union proposal frames most of the proposed changes in the spirit of improving overall educational outcomes, the district response was tailored to addressing the potential impact the changes would have on charters by drawing their oversight into collective bargaining.