Sentences with phrase «mayoral control of the school district»

If elected, Lavine also plans to take mayoral control of the school district to ensure positive growth in the school system.

Instead of hiring a superintendent, Lavine said she will seek mayoral control of the school district.

She has worked in school systems for more than 40 years, but her proposal for mayoral control of the school district

Lavine: Well in addition to everything else I've talked about, which is to turn the schools around and what I've said is, if I'm elected Mayor I'll be seeking mayoral control of the school district --

The lawsuit centered on the state legislature's 2009 revision and reauthorization of mayoral control of the school district.

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.

Not exact matches

A limited extension of Mayoral control in New York City was not a good sign for a «Mayoral Intervention» plan for the Buffalo Public School District.

With nagging questions over the leadership of the Buffalo Public School District, and some suggesting full mayoral control is the answer, a Buffalo - area state senator has drafted compromise legislation that would give the mayor «input.»

As a former superintendent of LaFayette Central School District in Onondaga County, Lavine could easily transition into the role of mayoral control.

All school districts should have a degree of oversight, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan told reporters Monday as he defended his bill to have a state appointee monitor mayoral control of New York City schools.

Although state legislation authorizing mayoral control of the Buffalo Public Schools still lacks a Republican sponsor in the GOP - dominated Senate, that hasn't stopped city power brokers from quietly plotting what a takeover of the troubled district would look like.

In an extraordinary session, the governor dictates the agenda, and Cuomo has listed just one explicit item: «Enacting legislation memorializing the agreement of the Senate and the Assembly that would extend mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York for an additional year; specifically extending the effectiveness of chapters 91 of the laws of 2002 and 345 of the laws of 2009 relating to the organization of the city school district of the city of New York.»

Last year as de Blasio pressed for pre-k funding and sought to stop charter schools from being co-located with district schools, Cuomo rallied with charter school advocates and even indicated that mayoral control might stand in the way of the charter school movement.

Her proposal of mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District, though, has been met with controversy.

Sen. Marc Panepinto, who is no fan of the push for mayoral control over the troubled Buffalo public school district, suggested during a CapTon interview last night that there are forces bigger than a certain local assemblywoman behind the effort.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor would seek to establish mayoral control of the Syracuse City School District, if elected.

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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.

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Lavine, who has proposed mayoral control of the city school district, said bold, outside - the - box thinking is also needed to turn around Syracuse's struggling schools.

The passing of the torch in Cleveland is imminent: This fall, the beleaguered school district will join the list of large urban school systems — including Boston and Chicago — under mayoral control.

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It endorses the «opt - out» movement and puts all sorts of restrictions on charter schools while also rejecting mayoral control and other non-traditional ways of governing district schools.

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 Bloomberg is reelected, his model of reform through dictatorial mayoral control will surely be urged on other troubled urban school districts.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

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IPS» White said mayoral control of IPS won't happen because the Legislature doesn't want to «disenfranchise an entire school district.»

Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.

«When Joel Klein was chancellor of New York City's school district, a New York legislator criticized him for engaging in activities contrary to the legislation granting mayoral control of New York's schools, and depriving parents of a voice in how schools were run.

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.

The District has made a good faith effort to implement the 2007 law that placed public schools under mayoral control, but there is no evidence that the change in governance has been a factor in improved standardized test scores, according to the first major independent study of D.C. school reform.

Serving as «High School District Superintendent,» Dr. Jordan was in charge of the city's public high schools — all of them — in the days before mayoral control.

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.

Despite the efforts of Mayor Dave Bing and even U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan, the city council voted 6 - to - 3 to not place upon the ballot a referendum that would have placed Motown's atrocious school district under mayoral control.

· 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.

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4