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.
Not exact matches
I'm going to bring community leader, other
elected officials at the
local, state and federal level, have access to other financial and human resources to give the
school board and the superintendent what's needed to turn the city around,
which is to turn the
school district around.
With regard to the
school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter
school authorization
board that can circumvent the power of our own locally
elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public»
school system that will not answer to
local school boards,
which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.
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.
He could also campaign for Amendment 8,
which would allow an alternative process for approving public
schools, including charter
schools, rather than by
local school boards, and Amendment 12,
which would impose a six - year lobbying ban on former state
elected officials, state agencies heads and
local elected officials.
For example, just two years after signing the compact, then - mayor Karl Dean, who's now running for governor of Tennessee, roamed the halls of the legislature pitching lawmakers on a bill to strip
local elected school boards in Memphis and Nashville of our ability to reject charters,
which drain resources from existing
schools.
(d) an
elected member of a
local board, as defined in the Municipal Affairs Act, of a municipality or an upper - tier municipality, all or part of
which is included in the area of jurisdiction of the district
school board,