Sentences with phrase «if local school boards»

If local school boards will not stand up for students and parents who are unfairly abused by the administrators within their district, then the broader community will have no option but to step forward and file complaints to revoke the certification of these administrators.

Additionally, poor - performing public schools could convert to charter schools, if local school boards approve.

Other districts could opt into the program if the local school board approved - an unlikely outcome.

In instances of the conversion of an existing public school to a public charter school, a description of the enrollment priority process for current students of the school to be converted and their siblings if the local school board requires it.

Innovative school operator may apply to convert the school to a charter school if the local school board elects not to receive the school back into the local district

Provides that if a local school board denies an application, it must provide the applicant with the reasons for the decision and post such reasons on its website.

Not exact matches

Check with your local school board to see if high schools in your area have job training and placement programs.

Non-taxable 529 Plan disbursements can be made not only for tuition but room and board expenses at the local school, even if you don't live and eat on campus.

Now, imagine if some Welshmen went before their local school board and demanded that biology text books include the Fairy Design Theory.

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

To determine if summer school is right for your child, talk to your child's teacher or guidance counsellor or contact your local school board: KPRDSB, 705-742-9773, www.kprschools.ca, or PVNCCDSB at [phone], www.pvnccdsb.on.ca.

If you were a local school board member would you like to enter into a teacher removal legal proceeding knowing (1) Pearson's tests are flawed, (2) NYSED's use of test results is inappropriate, and (3) major professional groups like the American Statistical Association have stated that value added measures can do great harm?

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

If it is not renewed by the Legislature, the city would return to the old Board of Education system governed by local school boards rather than a centralized authority.

And 30 years ago, they started running people for school board, and people need to pay attention to who is running for and sitting on their state and local school boards if they really want to guard against some rather unscientific ideas being spread to the next generation.

Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «If they are not willing to expand, then powers to create new schools should be returned to local authorities.»

Local school districts are the primary authorizer for most charters, but charter schools can also be approved by their county or the state board of education if rejected by their district.

Even if they are enacted, however, they will face an uphill battle absent broader reforms to teacher compensation systems — reforms that may be encouraged from Washington but will ultimately require action by state legislatures and local school boards.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

«The capacity of the authority should necessarily include the ability to invoke a form of receivership on the school district, suspending the authority of the local board and management, if it is concluded that good - faith reform implementation is not occurring,» said a report approved by the board.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

In every school district and supervisory district, the trustee, trustees, board of education or board of cooperative educational services, shall submit a written semiannual report to the Commissioner of Education, by January 15th and July 15th of each year, commencing July 1, 1985, setting forth the substance of each complaint about the use of corporal punishment received by the local school authorities during the reporting period, the results of each investigation, and the action, if any, taken by the school authorities in each case.

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

If informed that charters are «publicly funded, but are not managed by the local school board» and that they «are expected to meet promised objectives, but are exempt from many state regulations,» support jumps to 51 percent with 28 percent opposed.

For new charter schools, the organization applies first to the local school board; if the board rejects the application, the organization may appeal to the state superintendent of public instruction.

If you would like to see the local school board retain the ability to decide how to spend local tax dollars, and what schools should operate in Nashville, you must speak up NOW.

And in New York, the chancellor of the state board of regents, Merryl Tisch, has said her state won't compete if unions and state lawmakers don't agree on changes to improve the state's charter school sector and teacher - evaluation system, local media reports said.

The existing law - passed in 2011 - allows parents to convert a low - performing district public school to a charter if a majority of parents signs a petition, but local school boards have to sign off on the conversion.

If you live in or near one of these 12 school districts, and all of the 12 districts formally apply for and receive charter granting authority from the State Board of Education later this year, you will need to decide whether to submit your charter school application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool districts, and all of the 12 districts formally apply for and receive charter granting authority from the State Board of Education later this year, you will need to decide whether to submit your charter school application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool application to your local school district, or to the new Washington Charter School Commischool district, or to the new Washington Charter School CommiSchool Commission.

Please support your local school nurses (if you have them) and remind your school boards and parent teacher associations that school nurses play a critical role in your child's health and their ability to learn.

«If there's any capacity to do it,» said Rep. Glazier about rejecting the contract provision, «then local school boards ought to try.»

«If any issue cries for local decision making, this is one,» said Patte Barth, director for the Center for Public Education at the National School Boards Association.

LA Unified school board members will decide on Tuesday if they will join the local teachers union in a call...

Did you know that if HB 634 passes, your local school board will have no say whether a charter school can open within your community?

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

Education advocates, though, say they have noted the concerns about teacher background checks and, for the most part, they believe educators» right to protest will continue unabated, particularly if hiring decisions are left to local school boards and administrators, rather than state officials.

But most voters (48 percent) said teachers are largely to blame if a school fails, followed by parents (28 percent) and local school boards (25 percent).

But if a local district's administrators, school board, and union can not negotiate a join agreement for the local assessment, they will be required to adopt the state default plan.

«If the data points to a school that's been struggling for far too long with too many students not meeting growth, my commitment is to listen to local boards and communities for the rationale,» he said.

Whether it is a local school board seat or a contest for statewide office, if there are implications for charter schools and the communities they serve, CCSA seems to have an eye on it.

Although the bill provides for a delay until age seven if a parent writes the local school board, we anticipate that without vigilance on our part, this provision will be stripped in the future.

(8) And finally, a town can not cut funding to the network school — even if they have to cut their own school budget — and if they do get additional state funds or raise taxes to fund their remaining schools they MUST provide the Commissioner's Network school the same proportional increase in funding even though the local board of education doesn't control the network school nor is the network school unionized.

If a teachers union shows up in force at a local school board meeting to oppose a merit pay proposal, is that un-American?

B. Local school boards shall report the grant or denial of public charter school applications to the Board and shall specify the maximum number of charters that may be authorized, if any; the number of charters granted or denied; and whether a public charter school is designed to increase the educational opportunities of at - risk students.

If she was not referring to those schools, she should know that local school boards are not the only entities that require accountability.

Pulley and the State Board of Education could reduce the local supplements paid to school district employees, state law says, if the district's impairment is related to a lack of financial resources.

Local school boards also were urged to revoke rules and regulations that caused a woman to lose her position if she should (and this a quote) «commit matrimony.»

Design and implementation planning for the launch of a local Innovation Zone (if requested by the local school board, recommended by the ISD superintendent and approved by the SBE)

«If this is not done well, we will go backwards as a city,» said Leslie Jacobs, a local insurance executive and philanthropist who as a member of the state board of education led the creation of the state district that took over the schools.