Sentences with phrase «decisions about school closures»

They vote on policy and make decisions about school closures and consolidations.

Not exact matches

We will need to centralize and coordinate school opening and closure decisions and focus strictly on achievement and what's best for kids / neighborhoods, and stop worrying about what's best for all the competing institutions....

«As our enrollment continues to decline, the board will have to make more difficult decisions about funding, including potential reductions in workforce and school closures,» she wrote.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

About a dozen of these districts are using cooperation, also commonly referred to as district - charter collaboration, to drive decisions and address systemic challenges, including tracking school performance, student enrollment, and school closure.

To summarize, the written regulations (R - 3600 (c)-RRB- require the Board to notify parents of a potential school closure, prepare a closing study using multiple criteria that is conducted by a committee (the selection process and requirement for a committee are vague), allow people close to the decisions (e.g. parents at the school) to have input in deliberations about closing a school before the final decision is made, and arrange public hearings on the topic.

Christyn Herman, a spokeswoman for the School Reform Office, told Michigan Capitol Confidential that decisions about closures have not been made.

prevent the unnecessary closure of special schools, and involve parents in any decisions about the future of special schools