Sentences with phrase «for school board control»

For years, battles for school board control in high charter growth cities have revolved around unilateral opposition to charters or benign collaboration.

Not exact matches

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

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

A former board member of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, Faso also served for three years as a member of the Control Board that worked to fix the financial and managerial issues of the City of Buffalo and its school syboard member of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, Faso also served for three years as a member of the Control Board that worked to fix the financial and managerial issues of the City of Buffalo and its school syBoard that worked to fix the financial and managerial issues of the City of Buffalo and its school system.

Under her plan for mayoral control over Syracuse schools, Lavine said she would pick school board members with the advice and consent of the Syracuse Common Council.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

Mayor de Blasio, who has been pushing for an extension of the mayoral control law, expects similar battles from both sides if the community school boards are reconstituted.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

But that's exactly what is happening in this year's School Board races, with different factions warring for control.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

With control of the Buffalo School Board at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for gBoard at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for gboard will be up for grabs.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

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.

On Wednesday the Board of Education was reconstituted (with seven members, one appointed by each borough president and two by Bloomberg himself) and met for a nine - minute session, wherein they voted to retain Joel Klein as schools chancellor, and to disband themselves for good if and when the State Senate (ever) passes mayoral control for real.

For the JSCB's second phase, which will involve roughly $ 300 million in school renovations, state legislators changed the mandated composition of the board to give Miner and Contreras control over its composition.

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.

Mayor de Blasio is on board with the Assembly's plan to extend his control of city schools for three years, though he was jockeying for seven years.

The school boards group point out that its members» personnel costs are rising so rapidly - partly for reasons out of their control - that a tax cap would leave them collectively $ 3 billion short over the next four years.

Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the board.The continued challenges to petitions of would - be candidates underscore the dramatic politics that make this an unusually tense election, drawing interest from political, labor and business factions not typical...

Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the bBoard majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the boardboard.

The governor was quick not to answer a question last week about whether he'd like to change the way the state Board of Regents is appointed, fueling speculation he'll use today's speech to call for greater gubernatorial control of schools.

Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.

Should the governor, Assembly and State Senate fail to reach a consensus by the month's end, control of the city education system would revert to the old community school boards — widely criticized for their uneven, inefficient and decentralized structure.

The Hasidic - controlled school board says the budget for the public schools is approaching destitution levels and they are therefore cutting out programs offered to the public schools except perhaps for your Common Core.

We supported the introduction of mayoral control in 2002 because no one took responsibility for our schools under the old system of locally elected school boards.

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.

Anyone thinking about centralized control — federal or state — should volunteer for a local school board.

But, the jury concluded, the ulti0 mate responsibility for the district's need to seek bankruptcy protection earlier this spring belonged to a school board that failed to control the district...

A columnist for the Sacramento Bee goes further, charging that such «a fuzzy, nonspecific «accountability» system completely undermines the ability of parents, especially in poor communities, to demand improvement in underperforming schools, including the creation of charter schools to seize control from school boards, superintendents and their union allies.»

Chicagoans watched closely last week for clues about the future of the city's schools, as Mayor Richard M. Daley prepared to assume unprecedented control over a big - city district through the appointment of a corporate - style board.

«It's why I opposed school boards and why I fought for mayoral control.»

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

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 Dade County, Fla., school board has reaffirmed its support for a 10 - year - old policy that bars administrators from exercising editorial control over student publications.

The elected Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) retained authority over the system's 16 still - viable schools, an administrative domain that shrank further as several of the best schools fled central control for the greater autonomy that comes with charter status.

The poster boy for PM, New Orleans, with its exceptional hurricane origin and large charter sector to advocate on its behalf, reverted to control by the previously reviled and inept locally elected school board in about a decade.

Education Next's Mike Petrilli talks with Gene about his experience as a school board member — and now, school board president — and whether he sees a future for this last bastion of local control.

Just as the charter school plan continued the pre-Katrina trend of decreasing board control of New Orleans public schools, the post-hurricane changes accelerated the trend of increasing state involvement and paved the way for many more charter schools.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

According to the court, the initiative authorizing charters suffered from two constitutional problems: 1) charter schools are not «common» schools, because they are not controlled by school boards, and 2) charters would divert money reserved for common schools.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rControl of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rControl of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...&rcontrol of the functions supported by these taxes...»).

Relying on the 1909 ruling created a fundamental problem for the court: the state constitution nowhere requires «complete control» of common schools by local school boards.

For instance, it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.

A decision by the New Jersey board of education to take control of the Newark schools was delayed last week as the state's largest district asked the state supreme court for a stay.

Last year, heeding calls for «local control» of education decisions and less invasive interventions in underperforming schools, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, granting states and local school boards, rather than the federal government, broad latitude in determining how to rate the performance of schools and how to intervene when performance lags.

(Our own Checker Finn has not been a fan of school boards for some time and as recently as 2010 wrote, in National Affairs, that «it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.»)

In education, it could be read as an argument for «local control» — but with the important caveat that parents, teachers, and principals, not elected school boards, are closest to the action that matters.