Sentences with phrase «mayors control of school districts»

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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.»

In his campaign, McGrath has used de Blasio as a boogeyman for the suburban Senate district, raising the specter of a Democratic - controlled Senate being beholden to the liberal New York City mayor and costing Nassau County precious school aid.

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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In this portion of the debate, the conversation turned to the Syracuse City School District, and whether the mayor should be in control of city schools.

If the mayor is going to have control of our schools, then his office needs to engage in a serious, respectful, and sustained conversation with our community about what we truly need so that all our district schools are places where all children thrive.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Dzintra I. Janavs wrote in a 20 - page decision that the mayor's plan violates several provisions of the state constitution by shifting, in part, «management and control of the 708,000 - student Los Angeles Unified School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&School District to entities and authorities... that are not part of the public school system.&school system.»

In the absence of a sizable, well - organized and mobilized block of voters, the path of least resistance for most mayors is to focus on things that are within their control (like a school district), rather than on things are not (like independent education entrepreneurs).

At the urging of Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., a District of Columbia city council member introduced legislation last week to abolish the school board and put the schools under the mayor and council's control.

A compromise may be within reach in the difficult negotiations between Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and state lawmakers over the mayor's wish to have greater control of the nation's largest school district.

It would allow the mayor of Milwaukee to take over control of that city's struggling school district.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

With the mayor, he dismantled the unwieldy system of local control that created 32 school districts.

Switching to a mayor - led school system can provide a huge boost in student achievement, and cities across the country are experimenting with this new method of district control.

Governors fight for control of the education system with chief state school officers, elected chief state school officers with state boards of education, mayors with school superintendents, states with the federal government, schools with districts, and districts with state authorities.

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.

Prior to the 2002 legislation that placed Michael Bloomberg in near complete control of the city schools, New York City schools were run by the central Board of Education whose members were appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents and by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their role.