Sentences with phrase «elected board of education»

Unlike traditional public schools, charter schools aren't run by elected boards of education.

If you don't agree with our position, we'll simply change the rules or work to defeat your local elected board of education.

ConnAD was a primary funder behind the lobbying effort to pass Malloy's education bill last spring, and more recently, helped fund Mayor Bill Finch's failed effort to eliminate a democratically elected board of education in Bridgeport and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

With a democratically elected board of education in place, rather than an appointed board, the primary difference is that voters will now learn of the problems sooner and will, undoubtedly, be demanding answers.

Meantime, the New York Civil Liberties Union recently filed a lawsuit challenging the at - large method of electing Board of Education members of the East Ramapo School District.

NYCLU recently filed a lawsuit challenging the at - large method of electing Board of Education members of the East Ramapo School District.

Next week, the illegal, state appointed board overseeing Bridgeport's school system, will approve a new multi-year contract with Paul Vallas as part of their ongoing effort to prevent a democratically elected board of education from determining Bridgeport's education future.

a system that abides by the Kansas Constitutional requirement that public schools must be operated by locally elected boards of education.

Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar — who may be a charter school vendor — to oversee Network Schools.

Not only does it unnecessarily destroy tenure, and connect teacher evaluation to the wrong criteria but as we saw with the Bridgeport schools takeover attempt and the more successful Windham schools takeover attempt the bill gives the Commissioner unparalleled and unwarranted powers to remove elected boards of education, undermine negotiated and approved legal contracts and goes a long way to «privatizing» Connecticut's education system.

The search for a new Los Angeles schools superintendent is proceeding behind closed doors, but the underlying power politics extend well beyond the room where seven elected Board of Education members are at work.

Yet, neither the federal or state education chief, nor the PTA or the foundation, is directly accountable to a locally elected board of education.

Go back to an elected board of education.

She had complained about the complex oversight structures, which included the city council, control board, mayor, Congress, and the elected board of education.

Rather than work through democratically elected boards of education, where public policy belongs, harbormasters are designed to do an end run around the American political system and install pro-privatization gurus and consultants to take over and run privatization efforts.

When the results were announced, 65,763 Chicago residents voted in favor of having an elected board of education while 10,174 voted in favor of maintaining Mayoral control.

The State Supreme Court ruled that the State's action was illegal and ordered that a democratically elected Board of Education be re-installed.

They campaigned successfully in 2010 to replace the elected Board of Education with one appointed by the governor.

Recall that in July 2011, Mayor Bill Finch, the charter lobby ConnCAN, founders of Excel Bridgeport, and the chair of the state Board of Education engineered a secret and illegal takeover of Bridgeport's elected board of education.

According to Scully, the problems were all associated with the elected board of education.

Since then, many of the same organizations funded Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's record spending effort to eliminate Bridgeport's elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

When the notion of simply moving control of Bridgeport's school system to the City's mayor failed, the focus shifted to utilizing a provision in the state statutes that would allow the Commissioner of Education to throw out a community's elected board of education and install a panel appointed by the state.

We certainly know that reality here, as Governor Malloy's education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

Scully has devoted his first post to the task of rebuilding Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's image, by revising the facts associated with Finch's failed attempt to do away with a democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor.

To achieve those goals, they've decided that a democratically elected board of education, even in a City where the Democratic machine will always control six of the nine seats, is a threat.

In such an environment, Democratic Mayor Bill Finch's charter revision effort was far more than simply a debate about whether Bridgeport should have an elected board of education or one appointed by the city's mayor.

Based upon a complaint I filed, Connecticut's State Election's Enforcement Commission has opened an official investigation into the alleged campaign finance violations of Residents for a Better Bridgeport, the political action committee that was created to support Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's unsuccessful effort to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by himself.

Knowing what I know about Connecticut politics, Bridgeport's Charter Revision Referendum, including the language doing away with an elected Board of Education and replacing it with one appointed by the Mayor, may pass tomorrow, but the repercussions of Finch's move will haunt him and will undermine any dreams of grandeur he may harbor for a statewide political career.

Perhaps even more disturbing, Teach for America, along with ConnCAN, Excel's leadership and State Board of Education President Allan Taylor, were the behind - the - scenes architects of the secret and illegal 2011 state takeover of Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education

They do not have elected boards of education, they are not held to the same basic standards, they are allowed to unofficially cherry pick the students they want and «out migrate» those they don't.

As to Kevin Johnson's message, Bagley wrote, «' KJ» didn't tell us that his city of Sacramento, like the towns of Trumbull, Fairfield, Easton, Stratford and Westport, has an elected Board of Education.

During Barth's tenure as a member of Excel Bridgeport's Board of Directors, the corporate funded education lobbying group led the charge in favor of Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to do away with Bridgeport's elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by Finch.

readers will recall, Mandel and his aide, Meghan Lowney, played the pivotal role in the creation of Excel Bridgeport, Inc. the corporate funded education reform advocacy group that supported Malloy's education reform bill, worked to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's failed charter revision proposal to do away with an elected board of education in Bridgeport and has been the biggest boosters for Paul Vallas and Kenneth Moales Jr, the disgraced former chair of the Bridgeport Board of Education.

The corporate reformers also dumped record amounts into elections in Bridgeport, first in a failed effort to change the City's charter to do away with a democratically - elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the mayor and then in a failed effort to elect members of the board of education who support Bridgeport's faux superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas.

A Huge Victory for Public Education in Connecticut as Bridgeport Voters Shoot Down Attempt to Eliminate a Democratically Elected Board of Education

SKD Knickerbocker is the same company the produced the most offensive, anti-teacher ads that were run in support of Governor Malloy's education reform bill and is the same company that was hired to do ads in Bridgeport in support of Mayor Bill Finch's effort to eliminate a democratically elected Board of Education and replace it with one appointed by him.

When Bridgeport Connecticut Mayor Bill Finch engaged in his failed attempt to do away with Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one that he would appoint, a coalition of corporate education reform groups and corporate elite, including Mayor Mike Bloomberg, dropped in enough campaign donations to make it the most expensive charter revision campaign in Connecticut history.

The mission of the Georgia School Boards Association is to ensure excellence in the governance of local school systems by providing leadership, advocacy and services, and by representing the collective resolve of Georgia's elected boards of education.