It's true there is broad agreement that mayoral control is a better governance system for the city's 1,800 schools than the previous system
of local school board control.
A concept that has been in existence in the state since 1997, state charter schools operate independent
of local school board control and some state rules.
He has completely supported the Flanagan - Cuomo - Tisch - King agenda of charter schools, over-testing, anti-opt-out, undermining teacher rights,
usurping local school board control, imposing an evaluation system uniformly rejected by school boards, parents, administrators and teachers, etc..
The members of the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA), a voluntary nonpartisan organization of Virginia school boards, determined it was important to uphold the Virginia constitutional mandate of
local school board control in light of this legislation.
Just a week after a series of bills began circulating to
limit local school board control of school referenda, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to pass about $ 700 million in public school funding.
Legal and practical issues related to
local school board control and how school boards operate.