Sentences with phrase «control over local schools»

Although the Israeli Ministry of Education currently exercises a large measure of control over local schools, the picture presented by Israeli education is not one of top - down control and clear lines of authority.

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If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

Critics argue that mandating more fresh, unprocessed food will limit local control over menu development and cost management for schools and communities.

Astorino vowed to end «Cuomo's Common Core» and give local schools more control over their education standards.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

«We're a lot more comfortable with some of the modifications that have been suggested, especially giving more control to the local school districts and not turning it over to some outside group to determine the fate of the school.»

Local control over co-location decisions: Community Education Councils should be empowered to approve all co-locations of schools in their community school districts and, in the case of high schools — which normally fall outside the jurisdiction of the parent councils — all schools geographically located in their community districts.

More important, it would also give individual school districts local control over the implementation.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

«The governor's plan is essentially to strip away local control and turn a school over either to an outside entity of his choosing or to the state itself,» she told the committee.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Her 1974 book The Great School Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scSchool Wars describes how New York City has played educational three - card monte over its long public school history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the scschool history by moving apparent control over decisions up and down the system, between the central chancellor's office and the local superintendents, but never yielding any fraction of control to the schools.

Academies were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government back in 2000 as a way to raise standards in schools by taking them away from the control of local authorities and offering more autonomy over finances and day to day school management.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

The state's association of school boards rightly condemned it as an infringement of local control over school resources.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Last year, the state board returned control over budget and the school calendar to the local board.

In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.

With the link between schools and local authorities being further reduced, the DfE has suggested that councils will retain some control over funding for areas with «high - level special educational needs».

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

By capping the number of charter schools statewide, limiting the annual growth in the number of schools per district, and providing for input from the local district before approval of charter applications, North Carolina has exercised more control over the establishment of charter schools than some states.

Different levels of government — local, intermediate, and national — have varying degrees of control over school systems worldwide.

Contributing around 10 percent of public school costs, the US Department of Education imposed further requirements and regulations on the public schools, which removed another major fraction of local boards» control over school policy.

Pell Grants for Kids would provide more federal dollars for schools while also encouraging more local control - I mean more control by parents and teachers - over how that money is spent.

As the government looks to headteachers and parents to run services, local communities are being given more control over schools.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rControl of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqLocal Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rControl of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqlocal community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&raqlocal schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol of the functions supported by these taxes...»).

State policymakers should reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

Last week's annual Gallup poll on education repeated a frequent finding: Comfortable majorities of Americans agree local school boards should have far more control over what schools teach than state or federal governments.

In a system that prizes local control over curricular decisions, 10,000 school boards will be making the most critical calls over Common Core implementation.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

Although many states moved to adopt the Common Core national standards and tests prior to the 2010 election — an unprecedented surrender of state educational control to Washington — conservative leaders can reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

The state's move effectively shifted control over spending decisions from the state legislature to local school districts and eliminated a slew of state - imposed spending rules that many local districts saw as impediments...

For school - board leaders and others charged with implementing those man - dates at the district level, the legislative activism has renewed an old debate over the governance of public education and the degree to which the tradition of «local control» is being eroded.

Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.

After an exhaustive search for a new schools chief, the Detroit school board deadlocked last week over its two finalists, bringing to a boil the resentment and anger that have simmered in the city for nearly a year about who controls local schools.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Sschools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority SchoolsSchools.

The Local Control Funding Formula unknots the state - imposed rules that had restricted the use of K - 12 dollars, directs more money to disadvantaged children and shifts control over spending to school disControl Funding Formula unknots the state - imposed rules that had restricted the use of K - 12 dollars, directs more money to disadvantaged children and shifts control over spending to school discontrol over spending to school districts.

In Georgia, the high court ruled May 16 that the 2008 law creating the Georgia Charter Schools Commission conflicted with a provision of the state constitution granting local boards of education «exclusive control» over general K - 12 sSchools Commission conflicted with a provision of the state constitution granting local boards of education «exclusive control» over general K - 12 schoolsschools.

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.