Sentences with phrase «local control of one's schools»

• Support for local control of schools is on the rise.

Critics say the tests pull too much time and resources away from the classroom, diminish local control of schools and are stressful for students.

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.

Common Core, they say, is not a curriculum; it is not being driven by the federal government; it will not interfere with local control of schools.

Tea Parties claim that national standards violate local control of schools.

However, the Common Core has become controversial in many states, partly because critics fear it will negatively affect local control of schools.

Republican Presidential candidates claim to be for choice, including vouchers, charters and opportunity scholarships, and they also claim to be for local control of schools.

There is a conversation happening in the City around the issue of local control of the School District of Philadelphia, and moving away from a state run district.

But the fact of local control of schooling is what puts the onus squarely on districts and schools to be critical consumers of curriculum.

In 2008, Matt Miller proposed ending local control of schools in an Atlantic Magazine article (First, Kill All the School Boards).

Remove local control of school boards CRC Member Erika Donalds, a pro choice Collier County School Board member, would remove these local options that districts now have by: 1.

Now that the uprising has ended, Bevin has turned his revenge against teachers into an effort to take over the largest school system in the state and take away local control of the schools.

The district regained local control of its school district last month after more than two decades under state control, forced to relinquish self - governance in 1995 after an administrative judge deemed the district's schools and students as failing.

Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.

What's not real, Neal says, are the arguments being used to threaten legislators — namely, that it's a federal scheme to tell teachers what to teach, that private groups will mine and profit from test results, and that Common Core will take local control of schools away from Oklahomans.

«Jeffries, on the other hand, wants voters to believe that he favors local control of schools, but he still has not endorsed

The notion of values was also raised, with members generally agreeing that some state mandates have begun to erode local control of school districts.

«The Governor, Legislature, Education Commissioner, and Board of Regents must restore local control of our schools,» Astorino said.

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

Although a plurality of the public continues to think accountability policy should mostly be a state responsibility, the latest poll numbers show that the public has shifted away from federal towards local control of schools.

The priority given to Common Core by both Race to the Top and the waiver program provoked outcry among some conservatives, who feared that the national standards would both undermine local control of schools and lower expectations for students.

Never mind that local control of schools makes the Education Department a pretty weak player.

Finally, UrbEd works towards regaining and increasing local control of our school board here in the Philadelphia school district.

That's why we want the SRC abolished and local control of our schools given to the community.

Tuttle says Common Core adoption undercuts local control of school districts.

Conservative and tea - party groups demand local control of schools, while the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, like other business groups nationally, argues the standards will build a better workforce.

«It will help expand local control of our schools and return federal education dollars where they belong, closer to the classroom,» Daines said.

Uniform school calendar: District seeks local control of school start / end dates, but dates not specified.

In addition to the shock of the initial test results, there has been growing concern about whether implementation of the standards will reduce local control of schools and make it easier for the federal government to dictate what schools teach.

As far - fetched as the idea may seem to some, Rand's views aren't so different from those of Republicans more than four decades ago, who argued the department was unconstitutional because the Constitution didn't mention education and that the creation of the department would hurt local control of schools.

While folks (rightfully) gave our mayor a standing ovation for throwing the gauntlet down about local control of our schools, they should have stayed standing for the following point as well:

Many critics in Congress (and the classroom) argue that the law overstepped, supplanting local control of schools and driving them to over-test — hence NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia calling it «No Child Left Untested.»

But unlike many states, Maryland has seen a power struggle develop between the Republican governor and the Democratic - controlled legislature over who has final say over local control of the schools.

Concerned about giving Pryor and the Malloy administration too much control over local communities, legislators added the «two - school limit» as a way to preserve local control of schools.

To help educators become that trusted voice, ASCD's next issue of Policy Points, to be released in the coming weeks, dispels those aforementioned Common Core myths, addressing widespread questions about federal involvement and local control of schools as well as other misunderstandings related to the standards» relationship to curriculum, their cost to states, student privacy, and more.

It was Malloy who subsumed local control of schools and brought us the Special Master Adamowski, Stefan Pryor, and Paul Vallas.

New Jersey Gives Newark Green Light to Resume Local Control of Schools After 20 Years in Receivership @The74 bit.ly / 2u5id72

The FCSBMA web page mission statement supports local control of schools, public education and school choice.

The Supreme Court's ruling on vouchers sanctioned a hands - off market approach to schooling while the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) laid the heaviest federal hand on state and local control of schools in U.S. history.

The legislation would further diminish local control of school districts, allowing Ball State University to take over the Muncie schools and effectively render Gary's elected school board powerless.

In Massachusetts, with its long history of local control of schools, the proposals of the mayor and the governor are likely to face opposition from school boards as well as teachers unions.

Bridgeport's Maria Pereira has been one of the most powerful voices fighting on behalf of parents and local residents in the battle to defeat Governor Dannel Malloy's ongoing efforts to privatize public education through the massive expansion of charter schools and the Malloy administration's strategies to destroy local control of schools, undermine the role of parents and teachers, and turn public schools into Common Core testing factories.

The Tea Party, dubbing the standards as «Obamacore,» paints them as an intolerable intrusion of the federal government into local control of schools.

For others, CCSS interferes with local control of schools, limits teacher creativity, and diverts classroom time and energy away from instruction to test preparation.