Sentences with phrase «control over the schools»

The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.

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

Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.

The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.

Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.

While none of the bills specifically address overtime pay for school engineers, one centered on giving principals more control over school staff, including maintenance workers.

However, the mayor had far less control over school affairs than over the actions of the city council.

The lack of transparency and control over the schools only benefits the management company, and removes real checks - and - balances from preventing abuses.

They have control over their school budget and personnel.

Just like last year, thanks to the Senate Republicans, the new state budget only grants NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio a one - year extension of mayoral control over schools in the five boroughs.

In the U.S., most significant education policy changes come at the state level, as states have direct control over the school districts within their borders.

In a shot directly at Mayor Bill de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.

Before the Legislature gave the mayor control over the schools in 2002, they were governed by a Board of Education and 32 elected community school boards.

Their concerns are always focused on New York City, and in this case its mayoral control over the school system.

The most serious concern about the scheme is the emphasis it puts on test scores — what has become known as high - stakes testing — and the negative effects this might have on teaching methods, local control over school curricula and students» abilities to pursue electives and be enriched by the public school experience.

But the mayors were skeptical about both the prospects for and advisability of taking direct control over their school systems and were looking for other, more innovative ways to intervene to improve schools.

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

On top of that, as of this writing, more than 50 LEAs have filed individual bills in the General Assembly request local control over their school calendar.

The bill by state Sen. Brian Benjamin, a Democrat, would weaken mayoral control over the schools by requiring majority support from the state senator, Assembly member, congressional representative, borough president and City Council member representing a district targeted for «proposed school closings or significant changes in school utilization.»

The suit seeks a memorandum of understanding with the state to give the council control over the schools within 18 months of a ruling.

btw, the county executive doesn't have much control over the school boards, but I guess you forgot that.

Before the mayor had even finished testifying in the four - hour hearing before a joint Senate and Assembly panel, Mr. Cuomo had said he opposed Mr. de Blasio's push for permanent control over schools, calling the arrangement an «experiment» and saying it should be renewed in three - year spurts.

Charter school advocates may gain power if a law giving the mayor control over the schools expires and the old Board of Education structure returns.

Not really, mayoral control over the school didn't exist until 15 years ago when it was extended to Mayor Bloomberg.

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.

WASHINGTON — The Senate sent to President Obama an education bill that would return to the states significant control over school accountability and testing.

While supporters of mayoral control over the schools say it is designed to make one person accountable, Benjamin said that's not always the case, noting de Blasio, because of term limits, is a lame duck for the next four years.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, who has often clashed with de Blasio, argued that his longtime foe deserves continued control over schools «based on his record of managing this system.»

This does not eliminate democratic control over the schools; it rechannels — and strengthens — it.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled late last month that due to extensive state control over school finances, California school districts are state agencies and deserve the same 11th Amendment immunity against federal lawsuits enjoyed by other branches of state government.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

As he says in chapter five, describing the dysfunction of the progressive - designed traditional school system, «an important feature of this central apparatus [the bureaucracy] was its complete control over its schools» but, compared to the chancellor of Smarick's vision, the traditional superintendent has far less power.

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.

Under FSF, charter school principals continued to have significantly more control over school spending.

«It is a top - down model that is designed to benefit those who want corporate control over our schools.

Had the board voted to surrender control over the schools, all of which serve predominately black and Hispanic student populations in high - poverty neighborhoods, the district could have received a two - year reprieve from state sanctions.

Further, the legislation White supported would have given County Commissions unprecedented control over School Board budgets.

Each Alliance principal has the power to hire and fire the staff and has full control over the school's budget.

Hoosiers Against the Common Core and other groups had raised a series of objections about the cost of implementing the standards and the implied degree of centralized control over schools and teachers.

These include requirements to spend money on school transfers and tutoring, as well as provisions calling for the replacement of teachers or privatizing control over schools.

«Once they lose control over the schools, they can no longer do that.»

At the state party convention, the governor reversed his long - standing support for the Common Core standards that Johnson and other critics have said allows the federal government to exert control over schools.

The main reason why none of the main political parties will risk supporting the widely held view that GCSEs (the 16 + examination) should be abolished is that they are used as the basis of performance tables which enable government to assert a degree of control over schools at a time when they are weakening the existing controls of local government over schools.

Social justice advocates, educators and union leaders from 10 cities around the country came together out of concern about a loss of community control over schools.