Sentences with phrase «local public school officials»

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They would also need to report to state and federal educational officials so that the methods and results of the different local public school reforms could be compared to each other and to voucher experiments.

The winners were chosen separately by the public and a panel of 12 judges comprised of village and school officials and local celebrities.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

De Blasio, who formerly served as a City Councilman and a federal housing official, stressed his role as a public school parent and his background volunteering on the local school board.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

And invalidated his audits re waste and theft of public money by the state's local governments and school officials.

Councilmember Justin Brannan is calling on local officials to meet funding levels mandated for New York City public schools under the terms of a decade - old legal settlement and thanks to the efforts of the Campaign for Fiscal Equality (CFE).

LOWER EAST SIDE — State and local officials have asked the Department of Education to hold a public hearing on plans to bring a new school run by the Success Academy charter school chain to the neighborhood.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

Crime in New York City public schools fell 35 percent over the past five years and there was a 10 percent drop in school - related arrests from January to June 2016 compared to the same time period last year, local officials said.

Parents, citizens and local officials gathered in Buffalo Wednesday to demand that New York State provide more funding for public schools.

During an announcement that was attended by dozens of friends, family, supporters and local officials, Killian, a Republican, laid out a reform platform that included enacting term limits, providing tax and mandate relief, improving public schools, promoting substance abuse prevention and helping small businesses.

Today the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System along with local officials and students from the Jewish Community Center and Bennett Park Montessori School kicked off «Read Aloud 15», a new campaign which encourages adults to read aloud to a child for 15 minutes every day.

On Tuesday evening in Brooklyn, school district 15, which includes parts of Sunset Park, Kensington, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña will hold a town hall «from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at P.S. 516... Local elected officials including City Councilman Carlos Menchaca, Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and State Sen. Jesse Hamilton are expected to attend and answer questions from the public from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.,» according to DNAinfo.

After nearly 20 years of trying to redevelop the former public school he bought from the city at an auction for $ 3.15 million in 1999, Singer on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming local elected officials and neighborhood groups have conspired to block the project.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

Public - education officials in three states expressed relief last week over the resounding defeat of tax - limitation measures they said posed a dire threat to local schools.

When a federal court declared the Denver public schools desegregated, local school officials hailed the decision as the dawning of a bright new day.

Typically, officials consider the least restrictive environment to be the local public school.

Funded by a large donation from a local businessman, Boston's school officials have begun a massive public - relations campaign designed to improve the public image of the city's public schools.

In Chicago, public school officials are attacking truancy by combining «systemwide efforts, local initiatives, and improved programs for at - risk youth.»

To the best of your knowledge, are members of your local school board elected or appointed by another public official such as a mayor?

The court also stated in Brown v. Board of Education II in 1955 that the integration would proceed «with all deliberate speed,» affirming its 1954 decision and signaling that state and local education officials needed to work with federal judges to manage integration of public schools.

The authors hypothesize that if state and local governments empower parents to choose the schools of their choice, a «spontaneous education order» — a state in which parents seek information about schools and in which schools make available the necessary information without public officials» intentional intervention — will arise.

The New Orleans teachers» union and a lawyer for several local families have sued to force the opening of more public schools in the storm - ravaged city, but state education officials contend that enough space is available at the schools already operating.

They discovered a major change in how parents, educators, community and business leaders, and public officials come together to direct changes in local public schools.

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency, by failing to place a high priority on the problem of asbestos in schools, is to blame for the low level of public awareness of the hazards of the substance and the consequent failure of many local school officials to act promptly upon identifying problems, an agency management team has concluded.

• Who has right ideas for public education: 81 percent of parents said they believe teachers have the right ideas for their public schools; 77 percent said principals have the right ideas; 70 percent gave the nod to parent organizations; 39 percent said their governor has the right ideas; 37 percent had confidence in mayors / local officials; and 33 percent said business owners / corporate executives have the right ideas.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Preschoolers and kindergartners could be learning Mandarin next year at a local public school, education officials said.

Copyright 1988 Editorial With an annual salary of $ 150,000, Schools Chancellor Richard R. Green of New York City is not only the nation's highest - paid public - school administrator but earns more than any other state or local public official in the country, according to a national survey.

A student's IEP is drawn up by a committee that includes the student's parents or guardians, local public - school officials, and relevant medical or psychological diagnosticians and care providers.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

Tuesday's event will include opportunities for media to speak with school leaders, students, and families, as well as local and state elected officials, regarding the unique challenges facing Connecticut's public charter school community.

Does Connecticut's Governor Malloy and the array of state and local officials who are saying that schools will lose money really not know what the federal law is or are their intentionally misleading, even lying, as a way to keep parents and the public from knowing the truth?

ARSA provides a unified voice for rural schools and districts to local school boards, legislative bodies, and elected public officials.

Jay got the official go - ahead to operate his schools on city land from the parks department in October and now he's trying to get approval from the city's education department to qualify for funding as a local public preschool program.

The Aurora Public Schools Board of locally elected officials voted to close HOPE Online campuses because of their chronically low performance, and the State Board overruled the local board's decision.

While most legislators would agree that local control of public schools is important, this bill would take all control over the creation of charter schools out of the hands of local officials and give it to an unelected state commission — while simultaneously undermining the financial structure of traditional schools which are under local control.

And while local officials acknowledge multiple factors may play into tonight's decision, Central Elementary's plight has become a rallying cry among public education advocates in North Carolina this month, with some castigating state lawmakers for handing down funding shortfalls that increasingly strain local school systems.

Rather than putting government officials between the public and the schools, we should find better ways to make local schools accountable to the public and to ensure that the standards the local community upholds are of value to students and society.

This month, Barnes» group asked federal officials to block state leaders from implementing their policy change, which will be phased into 97 percent of local public school systems and a portion of charters by the end of the 2016 - 2017 school year.

Wouldn't it be awesome if public schools had ambassadors / senators / advocates who could represent their schools» needs to city, state, and local leaders separate from their local elected officials?

A spokesman for Wake County Public School System, the state's largest K - 12 district, said local officials don't expect to have an estimate on the new costs for at least a month.

That legislation would have ordered state officials to fund charters directly like city - school administrative units, or subgroups of public schools governed by local boards.

Its mission is to advance awareness of public charter schools, communicate charter school needs to state and local officials, support legislation to strengthen public charter schools in Georgia and build partnerships, collaborations and grassroots support for charter schools.

I'm never one to doubt that local school boards and public safety officials will find a way to hire even amid bad budget news, but the pressure on state and local budgets is so great and shows so little sign of abating that I couldn't help wondering where the money might come from.

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.

There's no way now to make the comparison perfect, but one preferred method would be comparing the choice payment to what public schools get from local property taxes and general state aids, we heard from researchers or other officials at DPI, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and School Choice Wisconsin.

The Governing Board is a bipartisan group whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public.

To provide a unified voice to all citizenry, local boards of education, elected public officials, and legislative bodies that have an impact on Arizona's rural schools.