Sentences with phrase «local elected school board control»

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

Not exact matches

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.

Without mayoral control, running the schools would fall to local elected school boards.

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

One of the most significant local contests on the Nov. 5 ballot is in Cleveland, where citizens will decide whether to keep a 4 - year - old system of mayoral control of their district or return to an elected school board.

For instance, it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.

(Our own Checker Finn has not been a fan of school boards for some time and as recently as 2010 wrote, in National Affairs, that «it seems increasingly clear that our revered system of «local control» by elected municipal school boards can not cope with today's realities of metropolitanization, mobility, and interest - group politics.»)

In education, it could be read as an argument for «local control» — but with the important caveat that parents, teachers, and principals, not elected school boards, are closest to the action that matters.

Don Weatherspoon told a small crowd gathered in the high school auditorium Monday night he hopes to hand local control back to the district's elected school board in one year.

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

Among its basic goals, DSBA is dedicated to advancing the quality of Delaware's public schools, promoting efficient and effective administration of those schools and strengthening the tradition of local citizen control through the establishment of education policy by elected and appointed school board members directly accountable to the communities they serve.

Student & Community Focused FCSBM affirms the importance of local control by accountable elected school board members in service to parents, students and taxpayers.

We applaud the Legislature and Governor for their vision and courage to move Florida in the direction of being a national leader in education by enhancing parental choice, school accountability, and local control through our duly elected School Board Meschool accountability, and local control through our duly elected School Board MeSchool Board Members.

Denying these citizens» right to elect local school boards through state takeovers or mayoral control should sound the same alarm as denying them the vote because the impact of the action minimizes their democratic voice and vote.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

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.

The new report, «Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public scSchool Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public scschool boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public schools.

Under the section labeled «community control,» M4BL called for an end to state and mayoral takeovers of school systems in favor of local, democratically elected boards, more equitable school funding and a de-emphasis on standardized testing.

Mr. Naeyaert spoke nary a word about the Governor's decisions to strip local control for the schools away from Detroit, the disbanding of the elected school board, or the disastrous working and learning conditions in Detroit's schools that have necessitated the recent sick outs in the city.

She was elected president of the D.C. School Board in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school School Board in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school bBoard in 2000, just as the federally appointed D.C. financial control board returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school bboard returned jurisdiction over the failing pubic school system to the local school school system to the local school school boardboard.