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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.

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«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» the company said in a statement.

«Delta's decision reflects the airline's neutral status in the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings,» Delta's statement said.

«In terms of how much is present in water reservoirs that have been sprayed with pyriproxyfen to control mosquito larvae, a person would have to drink well over 1,000 liters of water a day, every day, to achieve the threshold toxicity levels seen in animals,» Ian Musgrave, a senior lecturer in the medical school at the University of Adelaide in Australia, said in a statement.

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.

Barna said that despite the sharp political divide over gun control in the United States, all can agree that schools and children should be safe.

The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said that the number of school - related outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doubled over the last decade, and generally increased an average of 10 percent per year.

«First, we're pleased that the Assembly included a seven - year extension of mayoral control, as well as an increase in school aid and funds for universal pre-K over the Executive Budget,» de Blasio said.

Tristram Hunt has used the ongoing row over standards at the Al - Madinah Muslim free school to launch his first major attack against Michael Gove, with a letter saying a «dangerous ideological experiment has been allowed to run completely out of control».

The letter signed by 31 state headteachers says: «The Conservative party tells us that it believes that to ensure a high - quality education for all pupils, headteachers need to have control over how they run their school.

De Blasio said that he has talked to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan only once in recent weeks — last Thursday or Friday — a sign of his rocky relationship with the Republican who year after year has seemed to relish tormenting the mayor over the issue of school control.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he plans to put serious heat on state legislators beginning Monday to renew his control over city schools, saying the ramifications of not doing so would be catastrophic.

But with the law granting mayoral control over city schools set to expire at midnight June 30 — and Albany's legislative session ending Wednesday — Hizzoner faced the prospect of a crushing defeat that he has said would return «chaos» and «corruption» to education in the city.

Lavine, a former LaFayette School District superintendent, said she would seek mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District.

Under her plan for mayoral control over Syracuse schools, Lavine said she would pick school board members with the advice and consent of the Syracuse Common Council.

When asked whether the state or the mayor would have control over the schools, Heastie said: «The mayor and the chancellor put together a turnaround program, and we wanted to make sure, particularly in the Assembly, that they have that opportunity.»

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.

A source said Cuomo spent Wednesday trying to broker a deal over mayoral control, which balanced the desire of Senate Republicans (which Cuomo shares) to increase the number of charter schools against the Democrat - dominated Assembly's refusal to budge.

Shettima, who also said he can not but praise Tinubu for finding time to come over to Maiduguri on a two - day visit during which he inaugurated 432 houses, 13 primary and junior secondary schools and a fully furnished estate with 26 apartments of five sets of three - storey buildings for medical doctors, recalled that he succeeded in taking control of the Borno APC in 2015 largely because Tinubu refused to support the game plan of a wealthy tyrant.

Today, he said he'd also made those thoughts known to new Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, and again argued that state receivership was unnecessary in a city with mayoral control over schools.

But David Bloomfield, a professor of education at C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, says the new charter legislation doesn't mean de Blasio's control over the city's schools will necessarily be further diminished.

Mr. de Blasio originally called for a permanent expansion of his control over schools, but that was met with resistance from Mr. Cuomo, who called for a three - year extension, and Senate Republicans, who Senate education committee chair Kevin Flanagan said were «agnostic» on the issue.

New York City waits Meanwhile a number of issues important to New York City will be before the Legislature this year - rent laws and mayoral control of schools are each set to expire and while most legislators say they expect to renew both, major battles will be fought over the details of each.

Ken Lovett: «The fate of mayoral control over New York City schools could come down to a political game of chicken, with the Assembly Democrats in the position to force the Senate GOP into a take it - or - leave it three - year extension of the expiring law, insiders say.»

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.

But over time — and especially after a deranged young man murdered 20 elementary school children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong posschool children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong posSchool in Newtown, Conn. — Higgins said he came to realize that an absolute position opposing gun control was the wrong position.

The fight over extending mayoral control of New York City schools is heating up with state Sen. Majority Leader John Flanagan said he can't consider the issue until he knows how the city spends $ 9 billion in state funds.

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.

But Ohio Republicans aren't confident they'll maintain control over Ohio's congressional seats, said Justin Levitt, who researches redistricting at the Loyola Law School.

When he did discuss the issue of mayoral control over city schools, de Blasio insisted he «could not express the urgency more,» but said the real work would begin, conveniently, next week.

Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz, who has fought with de Blasio over the role of charter schools in the city, said earlier Wednesday that she agrees with him about mayoral control.

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.

As a proposal to extend mayoral control of New York City schools by three years gains momentum in Albany, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz says Mayor Bill de Blasio has not earned his authority 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.

Speaking to congregants at Wayside Baptist Church in Brooklyn, de Blasio said mayoral control had given his administration the ability to launch the city's Universal Pre-K program, and played a role in driving up high school graduation rates over the past 15 years.

deBlasio also wants mayoral control over New York City schools to be made permanent, saying the alternative is «chaos and corruption», but he says he would settle for a three year extension.

State legislators are expected to include a one - year extension of Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools into the late budget deal, city and state officials said Wednesday.

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.

Mayor de Blasio says he's holding out hope that he can maintain his control over city schools before it expires at the end of this month — but he sure didn't look that confident Wednesday.

«Albany is continuing its session as we speak,» Mr. de Blasio said, a theme he returned to over and over as reporters pressed him on rent regulation, the 421a tax credit, mayoral control of city schools, and other issues Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, indicated that state leaders had settled yesterday.

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.

«We found that 20 percent of MS patients over the age of 50 have cerebral microbleeds compared to 7 percent of healthy controls,» said Ferdinand Schweser, PhD, assistant professor of neurology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and senior author on the paper.

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.

Treatment - group schools need to at least outpace their counterparts in the control group over these two years for us to say that merit pay made a real difference for student achievement.

If I were, for the sake of argument, influencing someone in charge of education in the United States, then I'd say identify top performers and get them, without relinquishing control of their own schools, to take over underperforming schools and create partnerships.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

During the negotiations, the DPS interim emergency manager said, «It will be more challenging for DPS to succeed without some kind of control over the opening of new charter schools or other kinds of educational opportunities.»

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.

The kindergarten curriculum of the Department of Defense Education Activity says that kindergarten students in military schools will «begin to form letters with control over size or shape.»