Sentences with phrase «districts local control»

More important, it would also give individual school districts local control over the implementation.

This publication reviewed 29 key school district Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) to determine the impact those LCAPs are having on English Learner students.

16.1 Public Hearing for the Proposed 2015 - 2016 Mt. Diablo Unified School District Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Action

Not exact matches

Besides inflation, the provincial government has fobbed off a whole array of additional downloaded costs to local school districts — costs the government largely controls, but doesn't provide sufficient funding to cover.

Miller also said that federal nutritional restrictions should also be changed to give more control to local school districts.

It created a more businesslike management structure, decentralized the district into regions for more local control and gave top priority to the hiring of someone who actually knew something about running a park system.

Districts that participate in the NSLP are required, among other things, to have food safety programs and participate in health inspections by state or local health departments at least twice annually.4 School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating othDistricts that participate in the NSLP are required, among other things, to have food safety programs and participate in health inspections by state or local health departments at least twice annually.4 School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating othdistricts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other food.6

But on the larger question of local control... You say:» If you believe that school food professionals at the district level a) know what they're doing and b) have the kids wellness at heart, then why do they need to be micromanaged through regulation?»

I don't envy the task of a trying to ensure quality control at 300 local schools, and I'll write more about the issue of on - site quality control as I learn more from my district.

On walks in local neighborhoods, they could run into gun - control advocates, who plan to blanket key districts with fliers.

So, while there is a chance Democrats could wind up in the majority this calendar year, the real battles for control of the upper chamber will take place in local districts across the State this coming November.

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, includes representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

The Team, chaired by Senior Advisor to the Governor Larry Schwartz, will include representatives from private industry, education, labor, and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

Local control is a hot issue with budgets and common core so leave it up to the districts to decide the issue.

The Assembly last month approved a bill that extended mayoral control for two years packaged with the extension of sales and other local taxes — many of which impact districts in upstate and suburban counties that are represented by Republicans in the Senate.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

She added that there are hard costs which are out of the control of local school districts including teacher salaries, pensions and healthcare.

«The Erie County Control Board played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th DisControl Board played a crucial part in improving the financial health of the county and minimizing burden felt by the taxpayers following the «Red - Green» budget, but as Erie County's bond rating continues to improve and the local economy becomes increasingly diversified the control board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th Discontrol board has taken on a purely advisory status» said Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District).

«We're a lot more comfortable with some of the modifications that have been suggested, especially giving more control to the local school districts and not turning it over to some outside group to determine the fate of the school.»

Local control over co-location decisions: Community Education Councils should be empowered to approve all co-locations of schools in their community school districts and, in the case of high schools — which normally fall outside the jurisdiction of the parent councils — all schools geographically located in their community districts.

Assemblyman Fred Thiele, a Republican from Long Island says the change would restore local control to school districts.

Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue), whose district spans the North Fork, and Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter each flagged that component of the proposal as something that wrests zoning control from local officials.

The sponsors of the special investigation legislation in a legislative memo said placing such control in Schneiderman's office would have put investigations of police - related deaths in the hands of a comparatively independent entity and not a local district attorney.

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.

Chances are you want local control for your own school district but support idiots like Cathy Young and Hugh Farley dictating to the NYC schools.

«Stated differently, local control is still served if a «cap» exceeding budget is disapproved by a district's voters.»

The cap does not necessarily have its fans on the local government and school district level, however, and some there have pushed for changes to the cap, which is linked to rent control regulations for New York City and the surrounding area, due to expire next month.

In only a few instances, the state has moved to aggressively control a local district.

They'll be looking for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

And the actual linkage of the tax credit to rent control may not help suburban Democrats who have few, if any, rent controlled units in their district, but a very active local teachers union opposed to the measure.

The Buffalo News notes that Senator Mark Grisanti's proposed district is now entirely contained within Erie County, which means the local Conservative Party will control the party's nomination, rather than the state Conservative Party, which has vowed to oppose legislators like Grisanti, who voted for same - sex marriage.

MacKay said local Indy committees (and remember, there has been a power struggle — particularly in NYC — over who controls the line) are responsible for making endorsements, with the executive committee stepping in to make decisions in districts that cross county lines.

And its not just school districts but all local governments with these same out of control costs.

Cuomo's Five - Year Financial Plan keeps revenue sharing with local governments flat at a time when scores of local governments and school districts are headed for insolvency and a takeover by state Control Boards.

One of the byproducts of the Senate GOP's plan to gerrymander the district of their most vulnerable member, Sen. Mark Grisanti, so it's entirely within the boundaries of Erie County is that the Conservative Party endorsement will be controlled by local officials and not state Chairman Mike Long.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

And the district's sizable Hasidic Jewish population has dueled Los Sures for decades over control of the local subsidized housing stock, and might not want to see somebody from the organization parked in their State Senate seat.

Instead, he wants to adopt a model from Massachusetts that yanks the control of failing schools from the local district.

Mr. Adams was also recently named to Governor Cuomo's Task Force on Mandate Relief, tasked with finding ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Loss of accreditation, the district argued, would impede court - ordered efforts to desegregate the city's schools and promote local control.

There is even more support — and consensus — on allowing states to take control of local school districts where there is evidence of financial mismanagement.

Districts currently have a lot of local control in dispersing Title I funds across their schools

The public also strongly favors laws allowing states to take control of local districts where academic performance has been low for several years.

Even though the public would have the state take control of local districts when fraud is identified, public opinion is shifting away from federal direction to local control of the schools.

The plaintiff districts claimed that the commission fatally violated a provision of the state constitution holding that the local «school board shall operate, control and supervise all free public schools within the school district.»

Frankenberg says that those who propose redrawing district lines never explicitly say it's about race or class, of course, but instead often use the phrase «local control» to defend their case.

Providing a non-arbitrary comparison of schools on even one criterion will be nearly impossible...» He says that the agency's subjective measures of equity grant almost complete control to federal regulators over a district's administration, something that is at odds with the very structure of the American educational system and will surely damage local control.