Sentences with phrase «local control of schools in»

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.

Not exact matches

Republican lawmakers, who are in control of both legislative chambers, said the program would help local sheriffs and police chiefs who do not have enough deputies or officers to assign to schools.

The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

If the use of guns near schools may impair the performance of students, and the federal government bears responsibility for the success of children in the schools, why couldn't the federal government simply take over control of the local schools?

The Center for Safe and Healthy Schools was established in 1987 in partnership with the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide guidance and assistance to state and local education policymakers and administrators.

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says a ban on deep fryers in school cafeterias goes against his philosophy of local control.

APMI provides educational programs in the local elementary and secondary schools, developed multilingual asthma educational materials used by providers and caregivers, provides comprehensive asthma home visits to improve self - management through assessment, education, and establishment of a plan towards environmental control of asthma triggers, and advocates for improved access to asthma related services.

In addition, it is best to keep the control (decision - making) decentralized and as local as possible, because as you noted centralized decision - making tends to lead to «one size fits all» solutions which really don't work (as those who are in the school nutrition reform movement are fond of pointing outIn addition, it is best to keep the control (decision - making) decentralized and as local as possible, because as you noted centralized decision - making tends to lead to «one size fits all» solutions which really don't work (as those who are in the school nutrition reform movement are fond of pointing outin the school nutrition reform movement are fond of pointing out.)

Districts that participate in the NSLP are required, among other things, to have food safety programs and participate in health inspections by state or local health departments at least twice annually.4 School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other School food safety plans must comply with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidance and hazard analysis and critical control point principles and apply those to any location where school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other school nutrition program food is stored, prepared, or served.5 However, regardless of a school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other school's NSLP participation, districts typically have policies and procedures to prevent allergens from contaminating other food.6

Almost every Democrat in the Senate gets big, major support from the Teachers Union so expect the Democrats to add a ton of exemptions and get rid of the lesser of inflation or 2 % cap language then watch your school and other local property taxes begin to spiral out of control again which is why the tax cap law originally passed.

Another letter to the paper, from Jane Eades, Chair of Anti Academies Alliance, said: «Is this a promise that he will stop plans to open academies in areas where parents and teachers oppose the plans, returning schools to local authority control?

In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained SchoolIn the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schoolin 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schoolin the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schoolin Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained SSchools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Sschools a status similar to Grant Maintained SchoolsSchools.

The agreement was announced a week after the conclusion of an extraordinary session in which mayoral control of New York City schools was extended for two years, along with re-approving sales tax measures and other local tax provisions for local government.

Local control over co-location decisions: Community Education Councils should be empowered to approve all co-locations of schools in their community school districts and, in the case of high schools — which normally fall outside the jurisdiction of the parent councils — all schools geographically located in their community districts.

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

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.

We expanded mental health services in schools through partnership with Say Yes and others; maintained an active and robust rodent control program that is having positive results in communities across the county; continued a very popular rabies clinic program that has been attended by thousands of appreciative pets (and owners); and, along with partners, created the innovative Erie County Health Mall to improve local health outcomes.

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

It extended mayoral control of New York City schools and local tax measures, provided $ 55 million in flood damage relief and aided the Vernon Downs racino.

The education secretary has been criticised in some quarters for the way that free schools operate independently of local authority control, potentially opening them up to abuse by Christian or Islamic benefactors.

He is calling for proportional representation in all elections, an elected House of Lords and control of the running of schools, hospitals and transport to be handed to local government.

On Astorino's Facebook page, he referenced the libertarian argument against the Common Core, writing: «I believe in local control of our local schools and not control by faceless state and federal bureaucrats.»

But only one of the schools in each place is maintained by local authorities — the remaining schools in Birmingham are academies and independent Muslim schools in Tower Hamlets, outside of local authority control.

The bill comes after several other state and local governments have passed contentious gun - control measures in the wake of the February mass shooting at a Florida high school.

It's hard to have this kind of position on local spending in the US, as different politicians control spending at each of the five levels (federal, state, county, municipal, schools).

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

Social and religious segregation is rising, aided in part by the current government's commitment to free schools — state - funded schools that are outside of local authority control.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

The dramatic shift has been partially attributed to First Nations peoples (a term that replaced the word «Indians» in the 1970s) gaining local control of education in 1973 and changing the on - reserve school system from a more traditional education to one mixed with First Nations history, culture, and values.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

«This law moves against the tradition of local control in a fundamental way,» said one midwestern school board member in the autumn of 2001.

Districts currently have a lot of local control in dispersing Title I funds across their schools

Academies were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government back in 2000 as a way to raise standards in schools by taking them away from the control of local authorities and offering more autonomy over finances and day to day school management.

Statutory Requirements In 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building ControIn 2008, Partnership for Schools (PfS) and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set in motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Controin motion a process to update Building Bulletin 93, the 2003 guidance document produced by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) to provide the acoustic performance standards for normal compliance with Requirement E4 of the Building Regulations, enforced by Building Control.

Councils had to spend more than # 22m covering the costs of schools converting to academy status in the last two years, even though they are moving free from local authority control and are funded from Whitehall.

After the case, an HSE inspector said: «Although the school had not been under local authority control since 2011, it failed to ensure employees and management received adequate training to make up for the loss of local authority support and ensure that a suitable asbestos management plan was in place.»

Although parents can't control those factors directly, we can help by staying informed and involved in the systems that influence our children's school experiences, from voting for local school councils to being aware of national education policy.

«A central part of [the school department's] function is to bring in great schools and to make sure that existing schools are, themselves, great,» says Cerf, who also faces the daunting task of beginning Newark Public Schools» transition back to local cschools and to make sure that existing schools are, themselves, great,» says Cerf, who also faces the daunting task of beginning Newark Public Schools» transition back to local cschools are, themselves, great,» says Cerf, who also faces the daunting task of beginning Newark Public Schools» transition back to local cSchools» transition back to local control.

This is entirely predictable; in a country that values «local control» of our schools, we blush at the thought of far - away elites dictating the content to be taught in our schools.

The Republicans who now control the South Carolina House chose a highly symbolic target last month in their quest to pay for local property - tax relief: They killed the cornerstones of a 1984 school - reform program championed by former Gov. Richard W. Riley, now the U.S. Secretary of Education.

That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.

If the court claims that charters remove students from the «local control» of their district, how can a Washington student enrolled in a public school in Oregon be under the «local control» of its sending district?

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.

We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty to share thoughts and reactions to the election, during which Republicans maintained control of the House and Senate and — in an important local contest — a ballot question to expand the cap on charter schools was rejected by voters.

Getting cooperation from so many schools is not easy, given the history of local control in education and the absence of a tradition of random assignment.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Even with the financing and support of major reform foundations, the unions and their allies could hijack Portfolio Management in New Orleans, returning control to the local school board whose elections they dominate.

In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.