Sentences with phrase «local elected school boards»

They are uniform in opposing collective bargaining and they are also shadow forces working to eliminate local elected school boards.

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.

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.

Harking back to Bush v. Holmes, it ruled that the «statute [creating the commission] permits and encourages the creation of a parallel system of free public education escaping the operation and control of local elected school boards.»

The reward, however, is that a newly local elected school board and locally appointed superintendent that directly authorizes all schools in New Orleans have greater buy - in and support from parents and community and that our city becomes an even more vibrant hub of educational innovation and success.

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

Its members protest what their website describes as «well - funded special interests intent on dismantling our school systems, diverting public money from public schools, and limiting the voice of Tennessee citizens in shaping education policy through our local elected school boards.»

The bottom line is that despite the billions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, firing of all those old bad teachers, no teacher union and no local elected school board the New Orleans reforms failed miserably.