Sentences with phrase «for mayoral takeover»

While the developing plan for mayoral takeover was promoting the centralization of school governance, another part of the committee's agenda proposed to take the district in the opposite direction through «school - based management.»

Lavine in August outlined a plan for mayoral takeover of the schools.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday called for a permanent extension of mayoral control for city schools and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's approach toward standardized testing and push to make it easier for the state to takeover struggling schools.

Conservative columnist Joshua Nelson urges students to elect Laura Lavine for mayor to help pilot the mayoral takeover of Syracuse's school district.

Testifying on the fiscal 2016 budget in the state capital Wednesday, de Blasio pushed for making mayoral control of city schools permanent, rather than just extending it for three years, as sought by Cuomo — a move he argued would make state takeover of failing schools unnecessary.

De Blasio pushed for permanent mayoral control during a string of visits to Renewal schools earlier this year as a means of rebuffing Cuomo's proposal for state takeover of failing schools.

In addition to a mayoral takeover, Lavine advocated for increased funding for charter schools.

I am wary of portfolio districts, mayoral takeovers, and other proposals for a super-regulator to govern all choice and traditional schools.

A key early test will come from Wisconsin, where Milwaukee's mayor and the state's governor have said the prospect of a federal aid windfall should provide a major incentive for approval of legislation allowing a mayoral takeover of the city's public schools.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

Under the section labeled «community control,» M4BL called for an end to state and mayoral takeovers of school systems in favor of local, democratically elected boards, more equitable school funding and a de-emphasis on standardized testing.