Sentences with phrase «increase the number of school governors»

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Three others received between 28 and 33 votes — not enough to establish a minority position — on the excessively revolutionary issues of gaps in anti-discrimination legislation, increasing numbers of parent governors at academy schools, changing balloting arrangements for school selections, and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

Amy Albright, a spokesman for the Governor's office of child development and education, said the initiative would dramatically increase the number of school - based clinics, although officials do not yet know...

Yet Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, wants to INCREASE the number of standardized tests and require that school districts rely even more on the results.

«I can not support limiting the authority of local school leaders, especially at a time when budget cuts have greatly increased class sized and reduced the number of school personnel,» the governor wrote in his veto message.

Under the Governor's plan the number of charter schools allowed in the state would increase from 17 to 22 including some type of incentive that would reward local school districts to set up separate charter schools within their district.

While Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's budget fails to properly fund public schools in Connecticut it does provide for an increase in the number of privately run charter schools.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

The standards were created by the nonpartisan Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents the top education officers in each state, and the National Governors Association, along with Achieve, a Washington - based nonprofit working to increase the number of students who graduate from high school ready for college and caSchool Officers, which represents the top education officers in each state, and the National Governors Association, along with Achieve, a Washington - based nonprofit working to increase the number of students who graduate from high school ready for college and caschool ready for college and careers.