Sentences with phrase «for local control of schools»

Republican Presidential candidates claim to be for choice, including vouchers, charters and opportunity scholarships, and they also claim to be for local control of schools.

• Support for local control of schools is on the rise.

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Since Academy schools are not under the control of local authorities, it is a source of great wonder to me that all Catholic maintained schools have not opted for this status; it is an even greater wonder that the Catholic diocesan authorities are, it seems, actually discouraging the governors of Catholic schools from exercising their legal right to opt for Academy status.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

The Center for Safe and Healthy Schools was established in 1987 in partnership with the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide guidance and assistance to state and local education policymakers and administrators.

APMI provides educational programs in the local elementary and secondary schools, developed multilingual asthma educational materials used by providers and caregivers, provides comprehensive asthma home visits to improve self - management through assessment, education, and establishment of a plan towards environmental control of asthma triggers, and advocates for improved access to asthma related services.

Federal regulations serve as the baseline for school nutrition programs thus allowing state governments and local school boards an element of local control.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Monday approved a two - year extension of mayoral control of New York City schools that was also packaged with a series of tax extensions and icentives for local governments.

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and government and look for ways to reduce the costs of mandated programs, identify mandates that are ineffective and outdated, and determine how school districts and local governments can have greater ability to control expenses.

«It's a real head - scratcher» as to why Republicans backed the legislation, which also included an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, the re-approval of local sales tax measures and several other measures aimed at upstate communities for flood relief.

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.

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.

The agreement was announced a week after the conclusion of an extraordinary session in which mayoral control of New York City schools was extended for two years, along with re-approving sales tax measures and other local tax provisions for local government.

ALBANY — Members of the state Assembly had been told to prepare for a return to the Capitol on Friday for a session to take up legislation regarding mayoral control of schools and local tax extenders, members said, only to have the plans canceled several hours later.

ALBANY — After they walked away last week without taking action on mayoral control of New York City schools or renewing local tax authorizations, state lawmakers will convene Wednesday — at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's command — for a special session.

But he set the agenda for the «mini ugly,» the bill that shoehorned in a disparate smattering of unfinished business into one package, including renewing mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorizing local sales taxes and allocating funds to transform Frontier Town into a sparkling regional tourism hub.

However, much work needs to be done on the integration of health and social care and the related issue of payment for residential adult social care, as well as the change back to local authority control of school education.

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

Local control of increasing the state's minimum wage, school construction and paid family leave measures are part of the 2015 legislative agenda for the Senate Independent Democratic Conference.

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.

The education secretary has been criticised in some quarters for the way that free schools operate independently of local authority control, potentially opening them up to abuse by Christian or Islamic benefactors.

He is calling for proportional representation in all elections, an elected House of Lords and control of the running of schools, hospitals and transport to be handed to local government.

(Flanagan advanced three bills that extended mayoral control and helped charter schools; Heastie yoked a straight extension of mayoral control to renewing local taxes that are critical for upstate and suburban members.)

The Assembly passed an omnibus bill extending local sales taxes and included two - year control of schools for de Blasio.

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 yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

Mr Cameron said the coalition government's academies agenda, giving local groups the opportunity to take control of their schools, reflected the popular enthusiasm for devolving power as far as possible.

It's true there is broad agreement that mayoral control is a better governance system for the city's 1,800 schools than the previous system of local school board control.

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.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

«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.

Please continue the fight for legalization of cannabis, full funding, and local control of public schools, and IDA reform.»

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

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.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

Christian schools have long served as models for local control of decision - making and smaller school size.

But the key challenge for Newark when it regains local control — and the key challenge for all cities, regardless of the makeup of their school system — will be improving school quality across its diverse system of schools.

Statutory Requirements In 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Control.

After the case, an HSE inspector said: «Although the school had not been under local authority control since 2011, it failed to ensure employees and management received adequate training to make up for the loss of local authority support and ensure that a suitable asbestos management plan was in place.»

Although parents can't control those factors directly, we can help by staying informed and involved in the systems that influence our children's school experiences, from voting for local school councils to being aware of national education policy.

The oft - praised benefits of state and local control — experimentation, innovation, and competition for excellence — have failed to eliminate the substandard schools that many children attend.

Academy schools lie beyond the control of local authorities, receiving direct funding from the Department for Education, and rely on a self - governing structure.

The Republicans who now control the South Carolina House chose a highly symbolic target last month in their quest to pay for local property - tax relief: They killed the cornerstones of a 1984 school - reform program championed by former Gov. Richard W. Riley, now the U.S. Secretary of Education.

Those who fear that replication efforts will produce cookie - cutter schools are right to worry, but they also have an obligation to encourage the creation of franchises that account for local context and preferences but still maintain quality controls.

As a result, the legal significance of the local control idea, much like the legal status of school boards themselves, is likely to be contested for some time to come.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal