Sentences with phrase «defined by a local school board»

This is one of the historical consequences of empowering local school boards; «community standards» as defined by a local school board are not always enlightened.

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Holbein looked at local school board races from 2004 - 2012 in North Carolina communities where schools failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as defined by the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

Again school district programs are protected because local boards can create criteria establishing district needs that allow more «qualified» teachers (defined by specific training and credentials) to be skipped over and more senior teachers laid off.

However, when the survey defined them as «publicly funded» schools that are «not managed by the local school board» that «are expected to meet promised objectives, but are exempt from many state regulations,» the amount of respondents who expressed no opinion dropped to 21 percent while support increased from 34 percent to 51 percent and opposition increased from 17 percent to 28 percent.