Sentences with phrase «local boards of education right»

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Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.

For example: (1) teachers in charter schools have certification requirements as do other public schools; (2) charter schools are subject to academic standards set by the state; (3) charter schools must comply with local, state, and federal laws related to health, safety and civil rights; and (4) charter schools are «subject to the supervision of the superintendent of public instruction and the state board of education.»

What I mean is that we must acknowledge that it took Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — all bold federal authority overturning unjust local practices — to enable many of our fellow citizens to live freely.

The Secretary specifically invites advice and recommendations from State and local education administrators, parents, teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other school leaders (including charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community, and other organizations involved with the implementation and operation of title I programs.

• School Expansion, Growth & Strategic Planning • State and Federal Employment Law • School Board and Nonprofit Governance • Administrative Law & Appeals of State and Federal Agency Decisions and Actions • Special Investigations & Legal / Compliance Audits • Policy Guidance and Development • Constitutional Challenges and Claims • School Employee and School Board Training • Litigation in Federal and State Courts • Administrative Hearings and Appeals Before State and Federal Agencies • Public Entity Purchasing and Procurement; Business Transactions; & Contract Negotiation, Review and Drafting • Construction Law, AIA Construction Contracts, Review and Drafting • Real Estate Transactions and Condemnation • Special Education under IDEA and Section 504 • Student Rights & Discipline Issues and Hearings • State and Federal Claims of Discrimination • State and Federal Civil Rights • Administrative Grievances and Hearings • False Claims Act / Qui Tam Defense for Local Government Entities

True they are supporting legislation that undermines the rights of their own boards of education, local elected officials and taxpayers but they must know what they are doing.

Taken together, Residents for a Better Bridgeport, StudentsFirst and Excel Bridgeport, a corporate sponsored education reform group, appear to have spent more than half a million dollars to persuade Bridgeport voters to give up their right to choose who should serve on the local Board of Eeducation reform group, appear to have spent more than half a million dollars to persuade Bridgeport voters to give up their right to choose who should serve on the local Board of EducationEducation.

But their failure to do the right thing shouldn't stop Connecticut's local boards of education from standing up and speaking out the travesty being forced upon us by the overuse of standardized testing.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

When the final reports were filed in Bridgeport, the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent more than $ 560,000, a state record, in their effort to take away the right of local citizens to elect their own board of education.

Even before the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula, foster youth had the right to receive partial credits for all work satisfactorily completed before transferring schools under Education Code Sections 49069.5 and 51225.2, according to a resource guide developed by the Alliance for Children's Rights in conjunction with the California Department of Education, the Department of Social Services, the California School Boards Association and the Child Welfare Council.

Strategies: Develop policies and programs aimed at the recognition of land and sea rights; encourage education to the wider community about the recognition of land and sea rights; liaise with government to ensure that there is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation on all boards and advisory committees involved in land and sea management; develop land acquisition strategy; support Palm Island and other groups to prepare local Homelands Plan.

REALTOR ® Members holding membership pursuant to Article III, Section 1 (C)(1)(ii) of this Constitution shall be Board Members of the local Board designated by them pursuant to that section of the Constitution and of the state association within whose jurisdiction that local Board is located and shall enjoy all of the rights, privileges and obligations, including compliance with the Code of Ethics, of other REALTOR ® Members of that state association and local Board except: obligations related to mandatory education, meeting attendance, or indoctrination classes or similar requirements; the right to use the term REALTOR ® in connection with their franchise firm's name; and the right to hold elective office in the local Board or state association.