Sentences with phrase «local control of education also»
Many supporters of federalism and a return to local control of education also argue cronyism infiltrates public education when wealthy private donors pour much - desired dollars into public projects, demanding attention paid to their pet projects.
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Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
The $ 96.3 billion 2013 - 14 state budget, which won approval just ahead of the June 15 deadline, also carries out the much anticipated restructuring of school finances - the governor's Local Control Funding Formula, while providing an additional $ 1.25 billion to districts, county offices of education and charter schools to implement new common core state standards.
The bill would also require the California Department of Education to «suspend LCFF funding if a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) is not significantly improving pupil reading and comprehension skills and English learner performance» and to «prohibit educational agencies from receiving LCFF monies if their LCAP does not include evidence - based programs.»
The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»
In a letter to the district, Torlakson agreed to delay enforcement until 2017 - 18 of a California Department of Education ruling that found the district wrongly determined that as much as $ 450 million it spent on special education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English Education ruling that found the district wrongly determined that as much as $ 450 million it spent on special education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English learners.
We could also establish an agreed - upon set of work skills — like the Common Core for career and technical education — but it would no doubt be slaughtered on the altar of local control.
He also makes the case that Common Core is designed to shift control of education from the states and local communities to central planners in Washington D.C..
It also imperative that the state board of education adopt regulations that are consistent with the language and intent of the Local Control Funding Formula to ensure more equal education opportunities for children with the greatest need.
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.