Sentences with phrase «elected superintendent»

Some argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process....

They also don't take too kindly to arguments that elected superintendents focus on politics to the detriment of student achievement.

Instead, the Compton parents were thrust into a prolonged fight with supporters of the status quo: the Compton Unified School District, the teachers» unions, Gov. Jerry Brown and Tom Torlakson, the newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The newly elected Superintendent of Indiana Department of Public Education surprised students, staff and visitors at Crooked Creek Elementary School, Tuesday, November 27, 2012, by being sworn into office in front of them during an assembly.

Superintendent Robert Leininger late last month said many services are being duplicated under the current system of 18 educational service centers and 57 educational service regions run by elected superintendents.

But during the course of the election I couldn't help but think, «What are we doing electing a superintendent of education?»

Elected superintendents make up less than one percent of all superintendents nationwide.

But the proposed Senate board also removes oversight from the Department of Public Instruction — headed by the nonpartisan, statewide elected superintendent of public instruction — instead placing it in the Department of Administration, headed by the handpicked political appointee of the governor.

Torlakson was just elected superintendent in November.

«The nature of elected superintendents ensures the majority of applicants have no experience.»

Forty - four of the state's 67 districts now elect superintendents.

The map shows each county in blue that currently elects their Superintendent of Education, but if SB280 is passed each of these counties will be forced to appoint.

Some argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process when citizens are directly involved, while others would counter that you still have accountability when an elected school board is appointing the superintendent, but you also have a larger pool to choose from and remove much of the politics from the system.

Randy Dorn was elected superintendent of public instruction for Washington state in 2008.

The money they are spending in taxes for the upkeep of their roads isn't actually resulting in the proper upkeep of our roads and the elected Superintendent of Highways is responsible, as we all are, to use his budget and his time to maximum efficiency.

Elected superintendents would be removed by the governor and barred from running for re-election; appointed superintendents, already subject to dismissal depending on their contracts, would be automatically fired.

Appointed Superintendents: Of the more than 14,000 school districts in the United States, only around 150 have elected superintendents.

Elected superintendents, by their very nature of being elected, are more likely to craft a system of patronage or nepotism that decreases accountability and competition, while increasing costs for taxpayers.

Proponents argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process when citizens are directly involved, but that same accountability exists when an elected school board is appointing the superintendent.

San Francisco (AP)-- Tom Torlakson, the veteran lawmaker seeking a second term as California's elected superintendent of schools, and Marshall Tuck, a former charter school executive hoping to unseat him, are both Democrats.

On April 4, we will be electing a superintendent of public instruction — the only contested statewide race on the ballot.

Tony Bennett, Indiana's elected superintendent of public instruction, says there has never been a better time to be a teacher in Indiana.

The percentage is much smaller across the country's nearly 13,600 school districts, in which less than 1 percent have elected superintendents.

She was the clear choice among the three finalists, and while Juneau is certainly a traditional candidate in one sense — she has been a classroom teacher, administrator and the elected superintendent of Montana's schools — I applaud the board for bringing a genuinely new perspective to the office.