Sentences with phrase «control over the public schools»

Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy insists his push for control over the public schools isn't dead even though the Legislature departed Albany without taking it up.

The Legislature snubbed Mr. de Blasio last year by granting him only a one - year renewal of his control over the public schools.

For instance, a federal or state education chief is a non-local actor with control over a public school's teacher evaluation progress or college - and - career ready curriculum.

Private schools and charter schools can be blatantly antithetical to the democratic levers of public control over public schools, as they generally operate with privately elected boards of directors or fully autonomous presidents.

The resulting substantial waivers to the stringent requirements of NCLB, the proliferation of high - stakes testing across the states, and the concerns about the loss of control over public schools by local communities proved too much.

The new federal education law is supposed to return to the states greater control over their public schools.

Walcott also spoke to the issue of mayoral control over the public school system.

The GSBA has a long standing legislative position supporting,» the constitutional authority vesting exclusive control over public schools to local boards of education as the level of government closest and most responsive to the taxpayers and parents of the children being educated.

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While he doesn't believe MEC has any control over that debate, the organization can help advance the public conversation around the Feb. 14 shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at a high school in Parkland, Fla., he said.

He saved what was perhaps his most pointed criticism for the effort to make it easier for the state to assume control over struggling public schools through the appointment of a monitor.

With nagging questions over the leadership of the Buffalo Public School District, and some suggesting full mayoral control is the answer, a Buffalo - area state senator has drafted compromise legislation that would give the mayor «input.»

But the biggest and most difficult remaining issue in the session issue is an extension of the mayor of New York City's authority over the city's public schools, known as mayoral control.

De Blasio's accommodationist streak could also hurt him in upcoming fights over rent - control laws and mayoral control of the public schools, both up for renewal this year.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

De Blasio has ordered his staff to review ways to fire his investigations chief amid a tug - of - war over control of an office that monitors corruption in the public - school system, sources said.

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.

Should the NYC Mayor, whoever, have control over the city's public school system?

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

ALBANY — The State Legislature has adjourned for the year without coming to an agreement on mayoral control of New York City's schools, leaving a looming question mark over the chain of command for the nation's largest public school system and its 1.1 million students.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signaled today that the contentious issue of mayoral control over New York City public schools — along with several other major policy debates — will «more likely» be decided during the regular legislative session, after the state budget deadline of April 1.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

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.

«Governors are well meaning volunteers who now have control over millions of pounds of taxpayers» money and public assets, the school workforce and the life chances of children and young people.

On Friday, Moskowitz released an «open letter» to de Blasio, detailing his «poor management and lack of control over the governance of city schools [and] his neglect of public charter school student needs.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday said an era of «corruption and chaos» awaits the city's public school system if state lawmakers do not renew a law by Wednesday that grants his office control over city schools.

The mayor said he plans to push both parties in the Senate to extend his control over the city's public school system next year.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Depending on what happens in the coming session, this could turn out to have been a first step in weakening the mayor's control over the city's public school system.

The Assembly passed the extender, but not so the State Senate, reportedly willing to trade for charter - school expansion and perhaps continuation of mayoral control over New York City public schools.

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

Writing in a linked Comment, Christopher Colvin from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Abigail Harrison from Brown University School of Public Health in the USA say, «Currently, the increasingly narrow and fierce debates over the HIV and depot medroxyprogesterone acetate link have focused on whether a large randomised controlled trial should be done to better understand this link.

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.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

As public budgets have grown tighter over the past decade, states and school districts have sought ways to control the growth of spending.

If the treatment and control groups are similar at the beginning of the study, any differences between the two groups that emerge over time can be attributed to the programmatic intervention - in the case at hand, using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control iSchools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control ischools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007.

In public schools, teachers claim their level of control over their teaching is 4.8 on a 6 - point scale, while charter and private school teachers rate their level of control at 5.6 on a 6 - point scale.

A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over instruction in public schools.

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).

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

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.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staf Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school sPublic Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school spublic - school system.

The relevant circumstances are that the participating public bodies co-operate to perform public services they must provide, meeting common objectives and that the public body exercises the same kind of control over the service provider as it does over its own schools.

A bill in the Ohio legislature that would hand Cleveland's mayor broad control over his city's beleaguered public schools is a shoo - in for passage, several school officials, lawmakers, and union leaders say.

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.

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.

When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school sPublic Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public - school spublic - school system.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control iSchools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control ischools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007.

On the contrary, the model of self - governing schools — whether private or public — with significant control over their own operations, staffing, curricula, and budgets is far more likely to serve the ends of performance - based reform.