Sentences with phrase «elected parent governors»
It comes amid warnings that new ways to get parents involved will not be a substitute for the end of the mandatory requirement for schools to have two elected parent governors.
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Across England thousands of elected parent governors give their time to help their children's» school.
The Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper proposed removing the requirement to have elected parent governors, which did not go down well!
There was a controversial proposal to allow academy chains to operate without any elected parent governors, which ruffled the feathers of many people who had given up their time to help local schools.
Gillian Allcroft, deputy chief executive of the National Governance Association, said: «The vast majority of elected governors (parents and staff) do a great job for their schools and this is one of the reasons why NGA campaigned very strongly for the retention of elected parent governors.
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Matters rapidly deteriorated thereafter with the elected (i.e. non-Foundation) parent governors, supported by the VPAG, seeking a Judicial Review through the Courts, and now, after that having been dismissed, going to the Supreme Court.
Governor Joins Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Parents, Students and Local Elected Officials to Call on Legislature to Stand Up For Choice in Education
Most strikingly, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called the ruling «outrageous» and declared that it «must be overturned by the courts and if the courts don't protect parents» rights then, as elected officials, we will.»
Over the past several days, parents have been meeting with elected officials in Albany and across New York City, speaking out in support of Governor Cuomo's Opportunity Agenda to ensure every child has access to a quality education.
Unfortunately, in the Governor's first full day in office, he chose to stand with the state's most powerful interest group that spent millions to elect him, rather than the parents and children of California.»
There are a number of requirements to be aware of, namely the board must include two elected parent trustees (where the trustees have not appointed local governing bodies or there is no provision made for at least two parent local governors on each local governing body), no more than a third of the board can be employees of the academy trust and the number of trustees who are local authority associated persons must not represent 19.9 % or more of the total number of trustees.
Although tens of thousands of students participated in last year's Common Core SBAC «Test of the Test,» Governor Malloy's administration has refused to release the test results fearing, no doubt, that by informing parents, teachers, elected officials and the public of the results of the unfair Common Core SBAC test, opposition to these inappropriate standardized tests will grow exponentially.
Connecticut's Parents, teachers, public education supporters and taxpayers deserve better from their elected officials but Governor Malloy has made his position clear.
As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence accomplished what his new boss, President - elect Donald Trump, now wants to do nationwide: expand taxpayer - funded vouchers and charter schools to give more parents choices beyond traditional public schools.