Sentences with phrase «district policy overhaul»

ISBE launched a sweeping investigation of CPS special education practices last year and found a 2016 district policy overhaul delayed and denied services to students.

The state board also recommended that the district change the way it creates legally mandated education programs for special education students, and identify students who may have had their services delayed or denied because of the district policy overhaul so parents have an opportunity to pursue needed changes.

Not exact matches

The move by District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. came the same day that Mayor Bill de Blasio promised that the city's police department would overhaul its marijuana enforcement policies in the next 30 days.

The poll of 542 voters in the district was conducted Nov. 27 to Nov. 28 by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., for «Not One Penny,» a coalition of liberal advocacy groups that oppose the tax overhaul.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

Few analyses have been conducted on past state efforts to overhaul teacher - tenure policies, concludes a report that recommends ways states, districts, and unions might approach the issue of tenure reform in the future.

Instead, they demand a fundamental overhaul of federal, state and district policies.

During his tenure with the organization, Colleston has helped to develop and lead all aspects of the district's authorizing function, including overhauling the district's charter school policies, managing the charter school application process, overseeing citywide authorizing strategic priorities, and leading the development of the district's first School Performance Framework.

Those advocates will now convene with state and district officials to develop recommendations that may force the district to make additional changes to special education programs — even as CPS plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to reverse some of the policies implemented as part of the overhaul.

Several states have resisted the wave of changes prompted partly by the Obama administration, which offered states and districts millions of dollars in federal aid in exchange for overhauling their education policies through its Race to the Top program.

This weekend's Wall Street Journalinterview with the foundation's namesake about those school reform efforts once again hit upon one of the most - salient points I had made: That private - sector donations to public school districts and efforts at influencing policy won't be enough to continue the overhaul of American public education.

In 2007, Baltimore hired a new school CEO, Andres Alonso, who worked to overhaul the district's discipline policies.