Sentences with phrase «denied by their local district»

They are approved on appeal to the Illinois State Board of Education after being denied by their local district.

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In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.

The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $ 30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015 - 2016 school year.

During her time in the state legislature Ms. Morgan was a co-sponsor of the 2012 Constitutional Amendment, which allowed for an alternate state authorizer to open charter schools denied by local school districts.

In 2012, Morgan co-sponsored state legislation that allowed an alternate state authorizer to open charter schools denied by reluctant local school districts.

The solution to this problem should not result in denying parents their inalienable right to protect their children from what they might consider harmful which is what this bill does by punishing local school districts into pressuring parents to comply with state testing requirements that the education leaders refuse to change.