Instead, we saw a resounding affirmation of the need to educate all students and of the belief in the
capacity of public school districts governed by school committees to accomplish this goal.
Critics of charter schools argue that they are undermining the financial
health of public school districts, because tuition payments for charter schools are deducted from the state's aid to local districts.
Achieved a judgment in favor
of a public school district in the defense of a competitive bidding lawsuit at the trial level and successfully defended the judgment on appeal to the Ohio Court of Appeals.
Obtained summary judgment in
favor of a public school district alleged to have been discriminatory in its failure to hire an applicant for a school management position.
From local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM),
many of our public school districts provide multiple choice options for the success of our students.
In the last decade, the
number of public school districts in the United States pursuing such socioeconomic desegregation has grown from just a handful to more than 80.
Mr. Taylor and Mr. Stiff obtained summary judgment in favor
of a public school district alleged to have violated an applicant's due process and First Amendment rights in its failure to hire him for a school management position.
53 school districts — nearly one -
third of all public school district in Georgia and reaching over 1 million students — are now participating in farm to school programs and recognized through the Golden Radish Awards.
Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services
courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.
Most raise their prices for kids who can pay, according to research by the nonprofit School Nutrition Association, which found that nearly 60 percent
of public school districts raised lunch prices in 2009, the last full year for which national figures were available.
Residents of public school districts throughout the state will head to the polls on May 15 to decide the fate of annual budgets and also to vote for board members seeking re-election or wishing to win a seat.
More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday
survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.
A growing number of school districts have been released recently from court supervision as the result of court decisions handed down during the 1990s, raising the possibility of
resegregation of public school districts where desegregation had taken place.
Thirty - seven percent of respondents support the
idea of public school districts offering parents the option of sending their child to a single - sex school, 25 percent oppose the idea, and the remainder are undecided.
Meanwhile Push Comes to Shove offers an insight on the Kafkaesque
cultures of public school districts, especially when it comes to all the hoops principals must jump through to run their schools.
The closure of these schools puts hundreds of children back at the tender
mercies of a public school district that has failed students and defrauded the public about school performance and spending.
In private practice, Duane represented his first school district in 1997 and has dedicated his practice exclusively to the representation
of public school districts since 2002.
It describes our situation as well because the current financial, legal, and political construct of education in our state will lead to the
death of public school districts — and it's time we address the issue directly.
The fight between federal officials and Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal started in 2013 when then - Attorney General Eric Holder tried to halt the program out of concern that it was upsetting the racial
balance of some public school districts.
«By continuing to expand a parallel system of schools that does not provide equal opportunity to all students, the
children of my public school district have become victims of a system that is neither fair nor equitable,» Record said.
Charter schools, sometimes a thorn in the
side of public school districts, received a pat on the back from none other than the state's top educator, Jack O'Connell, at a special charter school summit for local educators held Saturday at the county Office of Education in San Jose...