He'll now have an even larger say on issues like extending rent regulations and
mayoral control of public schools, things that he hinted will be balanced against some eternal suburban concerns.
He has been locked in a local battle of late over trying to
take control of the public school system (a la Mayor Bloomberg), but other than that, there's been no huge controversy in his administration that I've been able to discern.
A study by Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson that was published in Ed Next in 2009 looked at what happened when for - profit firms, including Edison Schools, were
given control of some public schools in Philadelphia.
Fellow pro-public education blogger Jan Resseger highlights the findings of a new report released by Journey for Justice, a national coalition dedicated to pushing back the corporate education reform industry and
re-taking control of our public schools.
To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «
undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»
Writing for the Washington Post, Lindsay Layton reported the NOLA district closed the remaining neighborhood schools as part of a «grand experiment in urban education for the nation,» shifting local
control of public schools by voters and their elected representatives to privately operated charter schools.
Non-Catholics have grounds for resenting and fearing the tendency of Catholics, when they have the power, to
seek control of the public school system to bend it to Catholic purposes.
10 members of the city's congressional delegation — including Republican Daniel Donovan — are urging Albany to renew mayoral
control of public schools before it expires by the end of June.
As a result, Bloomberg had a difficult time getting mayoral
control of the public schools reauthorized, although he eventually won that battle, and often found himself at odds with the Senate leadership on key policy issues.
In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to
assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.
The Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (see sidebar, page 16), of which I am a member, believes that an evolved form of the ESEA that retains rigorous accountability is preferable to
returning control of public schooling to local public - school monopolies and states, which will fall into old habits all too quickly.
On a 9 — 0 vote, the Kansas Board of Education decided not to apply for RTTT funding, saying, «The federal criteria required more
centralized control of public school education...» 4 Texas Governor Rick Perry explained to Secretary Duncan, «In order to submit an application that is preferred... for Race to the Top, Texas would have to commit... to the adoption of national curriculum standards and tests.»
Charter proponents ignored the argument put forth by civil rights groups that, as an Education Week reporter put it, expanding charters means «black families and communities are
losing control of their public schools.»
And yet, the Norwalk Board of Education appears to be on the verge of
handing control of their public schools over to someone who has is a star witness for Governor Malloy's on - going attempt to undermine and defeat this critically important lawsuit.
We wish that our Governor and State Education Department would pay attention to the need for equitable class sizes, rather than their current focus on taking
control of our public schools away from our communities and putting them into the hands of private corporations.»
This report identifies what is working well seven years after legislation was enacted to
give control of public schools to the mayor of the District of Columbia and which areas need additional attention.
At 11 a.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina wil testify at the second state Senate hearing on NYC mayoral
control of the public school system, (de Blasio won't be attending, angering the GOP), Senate Hearing Room, 250 Broadway, 19th Floor, Manhattan.
Teachers» union leaders Michael Mulgrew and Randi Weingarten offered only partial support for
mayoral control of public schools on Thursday, saying that they want to see changes to one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's key initiatives in Albany.
It's a drastic step that has been successfully implemented in New York City and intermittently considered — but never fully embraced — in cities across upstate: Mayoral
control of the public schools.
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan nudged New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to provide more information on how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funding for education as a precursor to considering an extension of mayoral
control of public schools.
Among them is a measure to extend the New York City mayor's
control of the public schools, which has now been linked to a number of diverse issues affecting people in the rest of the state.
During a stop yesterday in the hometown of his running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, AG Andrew Cuomo said he is lending some of his muscle to the LG contender to help get his signature issue — mayoral
control of the public school system — passed before he leaves city office to (possibly) ascend to the state level.
Phrases with «control of public schools»