Sentences with phrase «not local school boards»

But they claim that using statewide data allows them to consider the fact that the states, not local school boards, are the ultimate political entities responsible for public education within their boundaries.

For freshman legislators, the most powerful source of political power was not the local school board; it was the new governor.

Not exact matches

Non-taxable 529 Plan disbursements can be made not only for tuition but room and board expenses at the local school, even if you don't live and eat on campus.

So perhaps, before you go onto internet message boards trashing science, which you clearly do not understand, you should enroll in some remedial high school level science classes at your local community college.

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

But I don't buy that — activists are activists, and most are looking for an outlet, whether they're trying to keep a smelter out of their neighborhood or put a Christian home - schooler on the local school board.

Don't forget to vote in your local school board election.

In part, it's because women already serving on their local school board don't aspire to higher office.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

State auditors concluded that the local school board «has not adopted reasonable and structurally balanced budgets.»

If it is not renewed by the Legislature, the city would return to the old Board of Education system governed by local school boards rather than a centralized authority.

In New York City, the achievement gains of the last 15 years were possible only because there was room «for the leadership of the school system to act and to make change and to not be sort of negotiating those changes with dozens of local boards or even the central board,» he said.

Legislators rejected this change during the first round of budget negotiations, with the Assembly creating a credit based on income (and not tied to local spending) and the State Senate embracing a simpler but less onerous plan advanced by groups representing cities, towns, counties, school boards and villages to give the «freeze» check back to the local government to invest as it sees fit.

Harig enjoyed support not only from the teachers unions, but the local affiliate of the AFL - CIO, which got involved for the first time in School Board elections.

Although the appointees have local accountability to an elected board of outstanding head teachers, their existence points to a growing recognition that you can't run schools directly from Whitehall.

Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.

It's not so hard to run for city council or a city or local office, like a school board.

When the principal informs her that she's No. 2 and can't catch the student ahead of her, she concocts a plan to elect Bernard to the local school board to abolish class rankings.

Governors, legislators, and even local school boards may all say they know «what works» in instruction, but they simply can not create that quality with the stroke of a legislative pen, such as when they mandate phonics instruction.

Perhaps the next time a strange or thoughtless homework assignment emerges from a child's knapsack, a parent will be inspired not to take to Twitter or Facebook and shake a fist, but to march instead into their school or to take the floor at their local school board waive a copy of this Politico piece and demand, «Why aren't we doing this?»

Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «If they are not willing to expand, then powers to create new schools should be returned to local authorities.»

Most High School Seniors Aren't College or Career Ready, says «Nation's Report Card» NPR Ed, 4/27/16» «In our era of incredibly volatile state and local testing practices, it is our North Star,» says Andrew Ho, a measurement expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who sits on NAEP's bipartisan governing board.»

Oklahoma's state school board wants to make sure not only that principals around the state report data on school - dropout and college - remediation rates, but also that the data get presented to local school boards for discussion.

As school board member George Giles was quoted, the initiative «brought in a lot of people who didn't have children, who in some cases felt like they didn't have a stake [in the local schools].»

The court said that charter schools are not «common» schools under the state's Constitution because they are controlled by a charter board rather than by local voters.

Second, Washington's high court ruled that «charter schools are devoid of local control» over educational issues because an elected school board does not govern them.

A Little Rock, Arkansas, performance - pay program lasted only three years and was not renewed by the local school board, despite evidence of positive effects on student achievement in math, reading, and language.

But representatives of local school districts contend that the $ 5.8 - billion appropriation is not enough to pay for the Board of Regents» «Action Plan to Improve Elementary and Secondary Education Results in New York State,» a comprehensive, five - year reform plan adopted last year.

The high court upheld the state school board's ultimate authority to overrule a local district's rejection of a charter application, saying the provision in the state's charter law did not violate the state constitution.

EdNext: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

The state board could order the local board to approve a charter application, but it could not require the local board to actually open a school or agree to all the terms of the charter applicant's proposal.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher schools of education, and teacher unions.

Some want this authority to remain as local as possible, vested in caring, face - to - face communities, not in a distant national or state government or even a downtown school board or mayor's office.

The law creating the Schools of Excellence Commission is in «total and fatal conflict» with the Florida Constitution, which gives the local boards — not the state — authority over public schools, Judge Edward T. Barfield wrote in the unanimous oSchools of Excellence Commission is in «total and fatal conflict» with the Florida Constitution, which gives the local boards — not the state — authority over public schools, Judge Edward T. Barfield wrote in the unanimous oschools, Judge Edward T. Barfield wrote in the unanimous opinion.

One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).

«Ted didn't make them up,» said George Wood, chairman of the CES board and superintendent of Federal Hocking Local Schools in Stewart, Ohio.

The decision was unusual in that the court relied not on traditional separation - of - church - and - state concerns, but instead on a provision of the Colorado state constitution that vests control over public education in local school boards.

«The capacity of the authority should necessarily include the ability to invoke a form of receivership on the school district, suspending the authority of the local board and management, if it is concluded that good - faith reform implementation is not occurring,» said a report approved by the board.

This is not just a local school board race, but a national one.

Respondents were asked: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

The question asked in both the EdNext and UAS surveys runs as follows: «As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

These teachers are presumably just as middle class, public spirited, and committed to education as other teachers are; but because they don't work in the district where they live, they do not have an occupational stake in their local school - board elections.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

Charter Schools Question: As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local schoolSchools Question: As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local schoolschools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board.

While most of the members of the state's 152 local school boards do, indeed, hold sheepskins, some don't.

The nation's schools will not improve substantially until local school boards and state legislatures set concrete goals and then get out of the way.

This piece reflects the personal views of the author and does not necessarily represent the position of the local school board on which he serves.

Washington State goes even further: not only can a teacher appeal a principal's decision to the local school board; the board's decision can be appealed all the way to the state supreme court.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «While councils have a statutory duty to ensure every child has a school place available to them, they find themselves in the difficult position of not being able to ensure schools, including academies, expand.»