Sentences with phrase «mayoral control of the school board»

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.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

New York's mayoral control system allows the chancellor to operate without the politically cumbersome presence of an elected school board.

Under her plan for mayoral control over Syracuse schools, Lavine said she would pick school board members with the advice and consent of the Syracuse Common Council.

Regarding mayoral control of the school system, Mr. Lander accepts direct appointment of the Chancellor by the mayor but thinks that education policy should be vetted by a separate board that is not controlled by mayoral appointees, in order to levy checks on the system.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg created the Panel to replace the Board of Education after the city gained mayoral control of 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.

They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.

Some de Blasio critics have argued that little changed practically while the schools were out of session; after the first meeting on July 1, the board voted to adjourn until early September, by which time mayoral control had been renewed.

But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

Mayor de Blasio, who has been pushing for an extension of the mayoral control law, expects similar battles from both sides if the community school boards are reconstituted.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

De Blasio's aides on Monday warned of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the city goes back to the old Board of Education system where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.

Part of Lavine's campaign platform includes a contentious mayoral control proposal, which would include common councilors picking people to fill spots on the Syracuse City School District's school School District's school school board.

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.

On Wednesday the Board of Education was reconstituted (with seven members, one appointed by each borough president and two by Bloomberg himself) and met for a nine - minute session, wherein they voted to retain Joel Klein as schools chancellor, and to disband themselves for good if and when the State Senate (ever) passes mayoral control for real.

When mayoral control lapsed in 2009, a reconstituted Board of Education voted to keep Joel Klein as chancellor and let him and then - Mayor Mike Bloomberg run the schools until the legislature restored things to normal.

In a system redesign, the mayor should be given say in Buffalo Schools by board appointment or mayoral control of some sort.

Every city that has mayoral control has different versions of it but the idea of mayoral control, yes, we do not want to go back to the school boards and the Board of Education.»

They worked to eliminate the Board of Education and institute mayoral control of the school system.

Before mayoral control in the city, the school board was made up of seven members, two of whom were appointed by the mayor and the rest by the borough presidents.

Call on the NY State legislature to pass a Peoples Board of Education bill before June 2015 when Mayoral Control is scheduled to either be reinstated or replaced by some other school governance structure.

Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

We supported the introduction of mayoral control in 2002 because no one took responsibility for our schools under the old system of locally elected school boards.

The paradigm shift must include a new look at governance at all levels — school boards, mayoral control, etc. — looking at the best structure to support our agents of change.

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.

If township schools kept elected boards while IPS moved to mayoral control, that would crystallize the sense of inequality, roundtable members said.

Some of them are lively, though, including one on he question of whether school boards should give way to mayoral control.

He also said he was in favor of linking «higher salaries to accountability,» raising money for school board candidates, mayoral control of LAUSD (though he cautioned, «it ain't gonna happen»), Superintendent John Deasy («He's doing a great job.

In the face of the strong opposition from parents, the mayoral - controlled majority of the school board backed down.

In its review of existing research on mayoral control, the report categorizes the various existing forms of mayoral involvement, examines benefits and challenges for school districts, then argues for effective relationships between school boards and mayors.

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.

The demands are related to major parts of the national Movement for Black for Lives platform, including a federal right to education (Invest / Divest) and an end to school privatization / charter schools, school closures, and mayoral - controlled school boards (Community Control), all issues we are grappling with in Hartford, Connecticut.

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.

· Provide district leaders who are knowledgeable about education and urban contexts and skillful in collaborative and democratic decision - making processes, starting with a credentialed superintendent of CPS, and transitioning from mayoral control to a democratically elected school board that is accountable to the public.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

The ultimate transformation in a city like this has got to be led not by seven school board members elected by less than 9 percent of the voters, or Eli Broad, but it's got to be a mayor pushing it, and it doesn't necessarily have to be mayoral control.

A decade ago, fights for mayoral control of school districts — which took power out of the hands of many local school boards — also occasionally attracted outside involvement from national foundations or other advocates.

«It's where you don't have mayoral control where you see the outside money going into the local school boards,» said Jeffrey Henig, a political scientist at Teachers College, Columbia University, who is beginning research on the involvement of national groups in local education politics.