Sentences with phrase «greater control over their education»

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeks greater control over education policy in the state, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Tuesday he was opposed to altering how the Board of Regents is appointed to lead the state Department of Education.

Pataki also put forth legislation that would lend mayors in New York's five largest cities greater control over their education systems.

The solution to rising costs and subpar results is not central planning but greater control over education on the part of all families, rich and poor.

She outlined a revised system that would give states greater control over their education funding and programs, in the hopes that more states would choose to expand school choice.

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Also, the governor and lawmakers are responsible for crafting the state budget, a process that gives them great control over which programs to fund and leaves education officials in an advisory role.

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 schoolEducation Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local schooleducation and a democratic input into local school systems.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican, said in an interview on Monday he would support greater gubernatorial control over education «were appropriate» as well as more influence over its members by his chamber.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

This upgrade option provides users with even greater control over the matching process including options such as income, religion, and education.

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

The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children's education than at any time since our nation was founded.

This theme — that greater state control over funding will lead to greater state power with respect to local educational programs and policies — is a recurrent one in the literature on financing public education.

Public education advocates will have many opportunities in the coming months to fight for greater funding for our children's schools and against state takeovers that hand our democratically controlled school boards over to private third party operators.

Her veto, he said, opens the door for greater state and federal control over student education.

The new federal education law is supposed to return to the states greater control over their public schools.

Maryland should recruit successful charter schools to the state and consider granting them greater autonomy and control over teacher contracts, according to a newly released study by the Abell Foundation, a Baltimore nonprofit that researches education issues.

«This wasn't just a loss of control over education, this was loss on a massive scale,» said Erika McConduit - Diggs, the president of the Urban League of Greater New Orleans.

Michael Kirst, president of the State Board of Education, noted in the briefing that the plan delegates a great deal of control to local districts to spend funds as they see fit, marking a decisive shift from the rigid top - down requirements imposed by Sacramento and Washington over the past decade.

But it also calls for greater local control over school districts, criticizing some of the Obama administration's federal efforts to make changes to the education system through programs like Race to The Top.

«The greatest cost students are going to have outside of their direct education - related expenses are their living expenses, and those are the ones they have the most control over,» says the associate university registrar of student awards at Queen's University.

That original vote has since been dramatically overridden by continued changes and political decisions outside the control of the education side, but it is instructive to see that even in the face of great difficulty in continuing to operate, people choose the status quo over the unknown of change.

Over at The Faculty Lounge, Dan Filler has this great new post titled «Education In A Crime Control Frame.»