Sentences with phrase «control of schools»

This would essentially create a Parent Trigger law of a sort for the Bayou State, allowing families to take control of the schools within their communities and lead their overhaul instead of waiting on dysfunctional districts (which often perpetuate systemic failure) to improve themselves.

Thanks for laugh of the day: «the one city in which mayoral control of schools has so far been an unabashed failure»

Schools belong to all of us, and we must take care not to turn over democratic control of those schools to private organizations.

People are finally raising up against the oppression of mayoral control of schools and the big corporate money that backs it.

One could even see the creation of neighborhood schools similar to the neighborhood associations in communities; such «community chartered schools» could actually allow for more - democratic control of schools because the people who directly pay into it and start it have skin of sorts in the game.

But after Mr. Cuomo last year pushed through a law giving charter schools more power to obtain free space in city school buildings, Mr. de Blasio's administration appears wary of doing anything that could jeopardize its biggest priorities in Albany, which include getting mayoral control of schools renewed and securing more aid for prekindergarten, after - school programs and city schools in general.

Modeled after failed attempts in other cities to create «Recovery» districts, the Takeover plan gives Means the authority to strip control of our schools from the publicly elected School Board.

Research suggesting that vouchers or charter schools perform badly or well is seen as fueling either a Leviathan government that maintains iron - fisted control of schools or a Wild West scenario in which private school providers run amok and the only consumers who count are those with cash in their pockets.

The strike in a district where the vast majority of students are poor and minority put Chicago at the epicenter of a struggle between big cities and teachers unions for control of schools.

Driscoll noted that the Education Reform Act of 1993 shifted some of the control of schools from total local responsibility to some state control.

Heller said questions should be asked about why consistently underperforming trusts are still in control of schools.

«Jeffries, on the other hand, wants voters to believe that he favors local control of schools, but he still has not endorsed

At the time, he was reported as saying that it would take a «holy jihad» against teachers unions to win mayoral control of schools, which Villaraigosa unsuccessfully fought for at the time.

Conservative and tea - party groups demand local control of schools, while the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, like other business groups nationally, argues the standards will build a better workforce.

Ben Cannon, education adviser to Gov. John Kitzhaber, said the development will give Oregonians more control of their schools and lead to better results.

Critics say the tests pull too much time and resources away from the classroom, diminish local control of schools and are stressful for students.

In particular, the Gates interview confirmed two things about the Foundation's education efforts: 1) they've realized that the focus of their efforts has to be on the political control of schools and 2) they are uninterested in using that political influence to advance market forces in education.

Although the RSD had a local office, it was an agency of the state which left little control of schools to the Superintendent and the OPSB members.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who took control of the schools in 2002 and has made education a cornerstone of his time in office, accepted the award yesterday in Washington along with Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein.

Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio used such results as evidence that mayoral control of schools should be made permanent.

letting teachers teach, treating each student as an unique individual, limiting standardized testing, banning those with profit motives from our schools, addressing poverty as a roadblock to learning, and maintaining local, community control of schools.

That's why we want the SRC abolished and local control of our schools given to the community.

Donald Trump used to speak of local control of schools.

But also important — and within the control of schools — is the fact that in such districts, the content standards and the instructional content coverage tend to be more rigorous, especially in the middle grades.

«Our ultimate objective is local control of our schools, and we will continue to work diligently and fervently towards this end,» he added.

«There's been improvement, but it's not tremendous improvement,» said Viteritti, the Hunter College professor, referring to the NAEP scores in cities with mayoral control of their schools.

He added that he doesn't believe in federal control of schools.

In this movement, some researchers saw democracy in action as power devolved from the state to local schools, sometimes culminating in outside stakeholder involvement.147 Many contentions about site - based management, community control of schools, community schools, and school choice were based on democratic and communitarian theory.148 Some researchers and policy makers influenced by economic theory have begun to view the relationship between schools and communities differently.

What's not real, Neal says, are the arguments being used to threaten legislators — namely, that it's a federal scheme to tell teachers what to teach, that private groups will mine and profit from test results, and that Common Core will take local control of schools away from Oklahomans.

The Post published an editorial following that story, saying Mayor de Blasio's «roadblocks for charter schools when it comes to finding them space» is a big reason that mayoral control of schools should not be renewed.

While test scores rose in cities like Boston, Chicago and New York after mayors took control of the schools, state takeovers have been less successful.

Hill and Jochim also argue that the current governance structures limit the democratic power of communities to engage in local control of their schools.

Republican Presidential candidates claim to be for choice, including vouchers, charters and opportunity scholarships, and they also claim to be for local control of schools.

Opponents tend to complain that the districts divert funding from public schools (forgetting that they are still public) and that they remove control of schools from local oversight, handing them to state authorities and even (gasp) charter school operators.

We've seen a few experiments of late suggesting that structural change is not totally impossible: mayoral control of schools in New York, for example; a statewide authorizer of charters in Colorado; the consolidation of «county superintendents» in New Jersey; and more.

But the contests on May 1 and 2 are taking place at a time of renewed interest in the role that the councils play in the city's long - standing tug of war over control of its schools.

Never mind that local control of schools makes the Education Department a pretty weak player.

From the 1950s and well into the 1980s, the conventional wisdom among mayors was to shun control of the schools: the political costs exceeded the benefits.

Thus, from the 1950s and well into the 1980s, the conventional wisdom among mayors was to shun control of the schools: the political costs exceeded the benefits.

The perception that de Blasio has made the DOE less accountable may have contributed to his failure to gain a multiyear extension of mayoral control of the schools.

Providing the highest - quality education means creating rich opportunities to learn by addressing the educational factors that are under the control of schools.

NEWARK — The state Education Commissioner has signaled to the Newark school district it's finally ready to take full control of its schools.

Common Core, they say, is not a curriculum; it is not being driven by the federal government; it will not interfere with local control of schools.

Parents, teachers, and state and local leaders have waited for more than a decade to take back control of their schools, and they deserve nothing less.

The paradox facing charter - school advocates is that, in the name of encouraging radically decentralized control of schools, they may unwittingly help to undermine the state's political ability to address the deeper structural and economic problems facing public education.

For decades, conservatives have generally followed two principles when it comes to federal K — 12 education policy: Respect state and local control of schools, and demand improved academic achievement in exchange for federal funds.

For others, CCSS interferes with local control of schools, limits teacher creativity, and diverts classroom time and energy away from instruction to test preparation.

While its argument for regaining control of the schools rested on the principle of local control, a chastened OPSB also pointed out that it had instituted financial reforms since the system's bankruptcy prior to Katrina.

The Supreme Court's ruling on vouchers sanctioned a hands - off market approach to schooling while the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) laid the heaviest federal hand on state and local control of schools in U.S. history.

And, because the Archdiocese retains governance control of our schools, they can fire us if we fail to live up to the expectations we've set.