Sentences with phrase «local control run»
New Jersey, of course, is local control run wild — late Assemblyman Alan Karcher called us an exemplar of «multiple municipal madness» — with our 590 school districts and 565 municipalities.
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These efforts were about curbing local control run amuck.
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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.
Regardless of who is selected by local party leaders to run, the special election is expected to be one of the most costly in the state's recent history, given the stakes for control of the chamber.
At the same time, this is one of the more formalized and concerted efforts by Cuomo, harnessing the state committee that he controls, to aid Democrats who are running in down - ballot local races as he seeks another term later this year.
In England and Wales the system is also still used to elect local councillors and here «no overall control» situations frequently occur, where either a coalition of parties runs the council, or the largest party assumes control without a majority.
As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.
Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»
It runs afoul of our one - person / one - vote construct and polls show people want local control, and a supermajority override requirement may violate the U.S. and New York State constitutions.
Free schools are tax payer funded, free from local authority control and are run by teachers, parents and community groups.
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.
If such a fix is not adopted, along with a fiscal one as addressed previously, we will soon see a return to the status quo after the period of state takeover has ended — and the goal should be to be able to have true and effective local control in the long run.
Without mayoral control, running the schools would fall to local elected school boards.
More successful local schools will be tasked with running the academies as they move out of local authority control.
The local media in Rochester is apparently having a hard time getting information about the schedule of the city's mayor — and Andrew Cuomo's hand - picked LG running mate — Bob Duffy, from the notoriously tight - lipped and highly - controlled Cuomo campaign.
The plan has its limitations: state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli runs the fund and Cuomo has zero control over the pension fund for hundreds of thousands of state and local government workers and retirees.
The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.
While disapproving of the legislation on July 8, the governor said it ran afoul of Article IX of the New York State Constitution by giving «counties control over local annexation petitions that would not impact a county's boundaries.»
This test is run as part of the regular panel at my local lab and it is also a test used in monitoring and controlling diabetes as it measures average blood glucose over a period of 3 - months.
The story ends, «I wasn't able to save Dot because I was arrested by the local animal control shortly after I put Puddle in the cube, probably because of letting Goon run away... and the whole giving my other cat aids thing... or maybe it was the dead cat in the attic.»
Most notably, White and Kockler have pulled off these reforms in the face of strident political resistance to Common Core and without running afoul of districts and teachers in this staunch local - control state.
The state then feels compelled to take control of the district, but that runs headlong into local control — hence the protests.
As the government looks to headteachers and parents to run services, local communities are being given more control over schools.
Davis, a Democrat, ran for governor in 1998 with education as his top priority, proclaiming, «Local control of California education is a disaster.»
In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.
They aren't run by the local council and as well as having control over their own budgets, they are employers in the true sense of the word and can also determine their own pay and conditions for their staff.
But with time running out to work on details of the Local Control Funding Formula, negotiators from the Assembly, Senate and the governor's office have yet to agree on what, when and how districts... read more
Opponents filed suit in May 2003, alleging that the program ran afoul of the Colorado state constitution's guarantee that local school boards «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»
Officials in Compton, Calif., have asked a federal court to give the city control over the 30,000 - student local school system, which has been run by the California education department since 1993.
Yet in its zeal to expand and dole out taxpayer dollars to privately - run charters, the state has run roughshod over local control.
Chronically failing schools are removed from local school board control and placed into the state - run RSD, where they get a fresh start.
This helps them to make informed decisions about their children's education, whether the school is under the control of a local authority, run by a MAT or is a standalone academy.
Unlike local - authority - run schools, they are exempt from teaching the national curriculum and have increased control over teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.
Standing Together for Strong Community Schools, a nonprofit group in the state, views the state - run district and the growing charter sector as a move away from local control.
An immediate end to the current UFT support for mayoral control and its replacement by a democratic system of local governance run by communities, parents, and educators.
A few high - rated public schools run by the local board also participated for the first time but dropped out after the first round, returning to a selection process controlled by individual principals.
Admission arrangements run by local authorities for community and voluntary controlled schools «are almost always clear and uncomplicated so it is easy for parents and others to understand how places will be allocated» says the report, published late last year.
Free schools are tax payer funded, free from local authority control and are run by teachers, parents and community groups.
The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.
My personal experience in Newark, New Jersey — where the state has controlled the local school district for more than 20 years — has confirmed for me what I already assumed intuitively: The path to sustainable reform runs through, not around, parents and local communities.
The campus next year will be run by InspireNOLA, which runs two highly rated charter schools under the Orleans Parish School Board, and Wilson will transfer back to local control.
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.
The Governor and the legislature also passed a local control funding bill which gave local districts more say in how they are run but also gave more money to districts that have a higher proportion of low - income students or second language kids.
Itasca Small, a long - time supporter and activist for states rights; local control over education and stopping Common Core; and defending our State Superintendent's constitutional powers over education in our state; is running for State Senator against Bob Worsley (R - LD25 Mesa).
Elected school board have to do things in a public way and this is not the way it is with the RSD or local schools being run by remote control from the state or by unelected charter boards.
Defenders of local control worry time is running out to develop models that work for parents and districts
There is a sign - up system run by the parent run Community Partnership Leadership (CoPaL) which coordinates efforts in the principle areas of Community Building, Fundraising (Gala and Annual Fund), Communications / Volunteering, the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), and the parent representative on d.tech's Board of Directors.
Tennessee AROS is planning to protest Betsy DeVos at an appearance in Nashville... Philadelphia state - run school board dissolves itself, returning Philly schools to local control... the California NAACP adopts a resolution supporting sustainable community schools.
The Local Control Funding Formula, the new school financing system that Brown pushed and the Legislature passed this year, takes this one step further, while doing an end - run around the API.