Sentences with phrase «into local control»

Next year districts will be able to compare their chronic absenteeism rates for different student groups to state averages for the first time and incorporate findings into their Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP).

With the onset of the recession, lawmakers in 2009 gave LEAs flexibility over the BTSA money and in 2013, swept the program into the Local Control Funding Formula, along with almost all other categorical money.

Some believe they're an unwanted government intrusion into local control of schools, while others say nationwide standards are necessary to ensure a quality education across the country.

However, targeted state funding for induction was folded into the Local Control Funding Formula, resulting in many districts reducing their support for new teachers, requiring new teachers to pay a fee for induction, or requiring new teachers to enroll at an institution of higher education to complete induction.

In this op - ed, Arun Ramanathan, executive director of The Education Trust - West, writes that «by authentically engaging and empowering parents and community members in their planning and budgeting processes, district leaders can really put the «local» into local control.»

He told the newspaper that he wants to put «some meaning back into local control» when reauthorizing ESEA.

The state then feels compelled to take control of the district, but that runs headlong into local control — hence the protests.

«Forcing parents and other supporters of schools to only offer federally approved food and snacks at fund - raisers is a perfect example of the overreach of government and intrusion into local control.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

John Gerzema of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam wonders if Starbucks is sandboxing a new back - end service similar to what Amazon.com provides to small online retailers: Independent coffee - shop owners could plug into Starbucks distribution network but still retain local credibility and control, and the «Bucks could expand its business without adding retail locations.

Rather, the time, effort, and resources put into the startup scene show an aggressive effort by a community to take control of its destiny and begin building a new economy from the ground up by supporting local innovators.

Developers of high - priced Shanghai residential projects have been overwhelmed by deep - pocketed prospective buyers as local government price controls turn the homes into bargains.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

As was pointed out above, wealth translates into economic power and control through corporate stock and nonincorporated businesses, real estate and state and local bonds.

produces percepta which are vague, not to be controlled, heavy with emotion: it produces the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future; a sense of emotional feeling, belonging to oneself in the past, passing into oneself in the present, and passing from oneself in the present towards oneself in the future, a sense of influx of influence from other vaguer presences in the past, localized and yet evading local definition....

After exploring the development of structures of domination in Western societies, she concludes that undoing these structures requires re-establishing more manageable units of local control, ensuring just relations and the just distribution of life's necessities, and converting a culture of competition and domination into one of compassionate solidarity.

Shurden, in an article last year in the Fellowship newsletter, put the Baptist conflict into three periods the struggle for national control (1979 - 1990), the fight over state conventions (1990 - 2000) and bitter battles in local churches (2000 - 2010).

If this newfound liberty in controlling what goes into your smoothie does not help you kick your habit of dropping all your money at the local smoothie bowl joint, then frankly, I don't know what will.

It created a more businesslike management structure, decentralized the district into regions for more local control and gave top priority to the hiring of someone who actually knew something about running a park system.

On walks in local neighborhoods, they could run into gun - control advocates, who plan to blanket key districts with fliers.

«The PDP holds that the governor and the APC are jittery and unpopular of going into the grass roots elections in the state, thus the decisions to control the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and sole administrators, which are alien and offensive to the provisions of our Constitution, which under section 7 guarantees only democratically elected local government council administrations.»

For instance, particularly egregious property tax rates in some particular city may lead to a «revolt» in which anti-tax advocates sweep into control of local government and ratchet the taxes back.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

And it is widely expected that the Senate will grant de Blasio at least another one - year extension, since returning to the previous system of local control would likely plunge the nation's largest school system into immediate disarray.

A trend is emerging of Labour forming administrations in local authorities which have slipped into no overall control.

The Assembly yoked the extension of local taxes into mayoral control, meaning they, too, are in limbo.

But he set the agenda for the «mini ugly,» the bill that shoehorned in a disparate smattering of unfinished business into one package, including renewing mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorizing local sales taxes and allocating funds to transform Frontier Town into a sparkling regional tourism hub.

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 school systems.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

Of course nobody wants to pay more council tax — nobody wants to pay more of any kind of tax — but it is surely better to be paying more for local services, over which we have closer control and scrutiny, than into a central pot increasingly steered towards penalising disadvantaged Northern cities.

• Scrap university tuition fees, promote comprehensive system of local schools offering mixed ability teaching; bring academies and free schools back into the local authority control.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is quietly finishing as one of the biggest spenders of the 2016 cycle, coming into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

Tensions have been rising for weeks over plans to devolve control over the police and courts back into local hands.

Accountability and control will move out of the obscure network of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities, and into the hands of recognisable, visible members of the community: that is, local GPs, working with local nurses and hospital consultants.

Jeremy Corbyn has set up an independent inquiry into antisemitism within Labour as he battles to assert control over a party in turmoil on the eve of crucial local elections.

Functional control of the Senate by Republicans lets Cuomo claim to support policies supported by a majority of New Yorkers while never having to sign anything into law that he personally opposes, like local control of minimum wages or public financing of campaigns.

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.

Lee also said the Newburgh city sewage - treatment system should control water pollution before it is discharged into local waterways.

a bill, A40001 was introduced into the New York State Assembly, which was an essential comprehensive bill, permitting, among other things, the vital extension of all local sales taxes and the Mayoral Control of the New York City Schools.

And although this subjects schools to central rather than local control, it is because the centre wishes to liberate them from standardisation that it will, paradoxically, allow variation and ethos to come back into play.

In the 1990s the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success at a local level here, but it never translated into Parliamentary strength and following a difficult period of Liberal Democrat - Conservative control of Hackney council they largely collapsed, leaving every council seat in this ward in the hands of Labour.

«We didn't get into a lengthy conversation but the immediate comment from some of the mayors in the room was: How can we use our abilities, how can we use our local capacity and our bully pulpits to try and move forward sensible gun control legislation?

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

It is an argument for more local control, not less — provided, of course, that one doesn't transform that impulse into more local board control.

This is no more of a threat to local control of schools than the fact that a computer's recharging cord can be plugged into a standard wall outlet in every one of the nation's nearly 100,000 schools.

And the Republican Party, with its historical support for local control, has thus far proved unwilling to step into the fray.

The Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (see sidebar, page 16), of which I am a member, believes that an evolved form of the ESEA that retains rigorous accountability is preferable to returning control of public schooling to local public - school monopolies and states, which will fall into old habits all too quickly.

The plans outline that every school will be in the process of being converted into an academy by 2020, with no schools remaining under local authority control by 2022.

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