Sentences with phrase «of local school board»

Other ways to keep pink slime out of local schools might be to attend a meeting of the local school board and voice your opinion.

«As incumbent members of the local school board, and survivors of four years of attacks by the national charter school and voucher movement, we are skeptical of organizations that appear to promote vouchers or unabated charter school growth at the expense of students, parents, teachers, and taxpayers,» the letter stated.

Most of them we want to pull into the charter school movement where they can see what a great public school is that doesn't have the chaos inflicted by the rapid turnover of a local school board.»

She serves as a member at large of the Massachusetts School and District Accountability and Support Advisory Board and serves as a member of her local school board.

Now he directs his schools chief to take the unprecedented step to overturn the judgment of the local school board who knows Superintendent White best.

* HB 4237 would allow districts to hold a referendum if the charter commission overturned the decision of a local school board.

However, with an increase in school violence and gang - related activities, the political climate seems to have turned more conservative, and the Supreme Court has begun to return many decisions back to the discretion of the local school board.

An executed charter school contract approved in an open meeting of the local school board before a charter school can begin.

MAR. 12, 2018 — We join in a statewide celebration to salute the efforts of local school board members.

Those are charters that transfer from state control back to the oversight of a local school board but maintain their independent agency status.

With 90 % of funds remaining at the discretion of our local school board, our school is afforded greater flexibility and control of our resources, in comparison to traditional public schools where school - based budgets are set at the district level.

New Hampshire statutes prohibit more than 10 % of the resident pupils in any grade in a (non-charter) public school district to be eligible to transfer to a charter school without the approval of the local school board in the town where the child resides.

Among the report's many other recommendations are the imposition of new requirements and standards to make charter operations more accountable and transparent and a restoration of local school board oversight.

I'd rather keep schools under the model of the local school board with a lot of transparency of how money gets spent.

MABE's training will focus its Open Meetings Act training on the unique role of local school board members so that you feel confident in your knowledge of and ability to implement the necessary components of the Open Meetings Act.

Following the dissolution of the local school board and the centralization of education decision - making within the mayor's office, then - Mayor Adrian Fenty commanded an unusual amount of power to change D.C.'s schools.

Proposals for enormous changes in the school system have always been a feature during times of economic crisis, but you have to stop and catch your breath at times when some of the more «throw the baby out with the bathwater» schemes get a serious airing from our self - appointed «out of the box» thinkers on education «reform,» or, as one of our local school board candidates would prefer, «transformation.»

But when the news was released that charter schools in Georgia made AYP at a 70 % rate, there were many in state who relished the opportunity to say this confirmed all the naysayers like Cathy Williams that say we don't need or want more charter schools unless they are under the management and control of the local school board.

He said he believes it is time for the state school board «to require those schools to return to the auspices of the local school board.»

Final debate and enactment of resolutions submitted are effected by the Delegate Assembly, which consists of local school board members from the various states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

NSBA is aggressively monitoring the legislative process to ensure that the modernization of ESEA strengthens federal support for and affirmation of local school board governance.

Charter schools, which run independently of the local school board and often use alternative curriculum and styles of teaching, were approved in California in 1992.

Charter schools are publicly financed, but operate largely independently of local school board oversight and state regulations.

Wouldn't a district superintendent, a member of a local school board, or even a state superintendent of schools prefer to be associated with successful rather than sour education endeavors, with policies that help kids rather than harm them?

Being a member of a local school board is a difficult task.

In a blog post, he contended that I - 1240 would be vulnerable to a constitutional challenge because it directed money from the «common school fund» to public charter schools outside the control of the local school board.

And school district administrators frequently oppose charter schools because the charter schools use public dollars but operate independently and out of the direct control of the local school board.

Committee recommendation: Inexpedient to Legislate (20 - 0) HB 1403, prohibiting a member of a local school board from serving on the State Board of Education.

A model one - way desegregation program begun 15 years ago in Hartford, Conn., is being phased out by order of the local school board, which argued that the district can no longer afford to send city students to suburban schools.

In arguing for the elimination of the local school board, Chester Finn and Lisa Keegan («Lost at Sea «-RRB- state, «[State - level child - centered funding] would create not only a more equitable system, but also more effective schools.»

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.

Nevertheless, such pressure is counterbalanced by other, more parochial concerns, such as the preferences of the local school board, superintendent, principals, department chairs, and parents.

Alternative East flourished for a little over a decade, but the nontraditional school ultimately lost the support of the local school board, which felt that district schools had «highly skilled, highly paid people, and we should be able to provide for the needs of these [students].»

To the best of your knowledge, are members of your local school board elected or appointed by another public official such as a mayor?

«Another thing that's a distraction from our students,» she said,» is the big dark money that is a part of our local school board race,» Nelson, in turn, raised both the AFT mailer and his eyebrows at Holtzmann and then at the audience.

Louisiana has decided that all New Orleans charter schools now overseen by the state's Recovery School District will be placed under the control of the local school board.

The money has to come from somewhere, says Becky Jay, who was president of the local school board when the [family] first asked for tuition reimbursement, «and regular kids lose out.

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.

Dorancy, a former teacher and member of the local school board, serves as a senior administrator in the city's Department of Education.

Think about it: when the presidential campaigns are joined by senatorial, congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, mayoral, etc etc etc, campaigns, all down to the level of local school board candidates, everybody just step back — this thing's going to get huge.

Therefore, what is now needed is some media - related equivalent of the local school board which can monitor the educational aspects of television in the community.

In addition to nominating their Democratic and Republican Senatorial candidates, Representative Ed Markey and businessman Gabriel Gomez, respectively, Tuesday was a day for Berkshire County voters to choose their selectmen and members of their local school boards.

The annual art exhibit displays students» work to members of local school boards at the School Board Association's annual conference.

(In that case, they would need the approval of local school boards whose tax revenues would be affected.)

Without a renewal, the city's education system — servicing some 1.1 million students — would revert to the former arrangement of local school boards, which was frequently criticized as inefficient, inequitable and corrupt.

Legally, what to teach kids about sex at school is frequently left to the discretion of local school boards, which often hire outside abstinence - only contractors to do the job.

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twist.

The emergence of charter schools in the 1990s provided manifold possibilities for educators to create new schools outside the purview of local school boards, where innovation and experimentation were encouraged.

But that would diminish the authority of local school boards; require changes to policies on facilities, transportation, enrollment, and funding; potentially lead to school closures and job losses; undermine «neighborhood» schools; and more.

Anne Bryant, Gene Maeroff, Christopher Barclay and Chester Finn square off in a debate / discussion hosted by the Fordham Institute about the role of local school boards in the 21st century.