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.
Not exact matches
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 sc
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 sc
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
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 i
Schools closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the
schools were handed over to mayoral control i
schools 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 s
Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral
control over the city's sprawling
public - school s
public -
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 s
Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral
control over the city's sprawling
public - school s
public -
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 i
Schools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the
schools were handed over to mayoral control i
schools 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.