Sentences with phrase «one's elected school board»

If city residents could not elect their school board members, at least they could have people like them in positions of authority.

We supported the introduction of mayoral control in 2002 because no one took responsibility for our schools under the old system of locally elected school boards.

But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.

Its policy to have all public education follow the same state statutes and regulations with oversight by elected school boards differs from many choice groups.

While public companies can ensure that their boards of directors are stocked with financial know - how, this is not possible for elected school boards.

Real public schools have elected school boards with open meetings, not appointed boards accountable to share holders.

Public school districts have no profit margin and are controlled by a publicly elected school board whose members are not paid anything for their service to the community.

They are uniform in opposing collective bargaining and they are also shadow forces working to eliminate local elected school boards.

Regardless of how one might feel about elected school boards, elections might discourage otherwise willing and capable individuals from serving on a board.

The district has shown that elected school boards need not be incompatible with challenges to the status quo.

Firstly despite what some individuals may think, many studies have shown elected school boards to greater benefit students as opposed to an appointed school board.

While this legislation did not address that issue, all of the school districts affected by this bill already elect their school boards.

In contrast, conventional elected school boards are often more responsive to powerful interest groups than to the concerns of parents.

As locally elected school boards struggle to provide the same or better services with decreasing funds, craft legislation to label and punish them as «failures».

Throughout the country, elected school boards set policies and budgets that affect public school students.

Members of the community elect school board members to make difficult choices and they ultimately must trust those decisions.

But the courts struck down the new law as a violation of a state constitutional provision prohibiting anyone but a locally elected school board from running the schools.

The functions of a school district and state education agencies are directed by publicly elected school boards and / or superintendents and implemented by professional school administrators and district staff members.

Without mayoral control, running the schools would fall to local elected school boards.

Here in Connecticut, that surge began in November 2012, when big money tried to eliminate a democratically elected school board in Bridgeport.

«The role of elected school board members has never been more meaningful.

Support your newly elected school board members through an orientation process that builds trust, improves communication and boosts the overall performance of the governance team.

Support the statutory authority and the power of local control conferred on the duly elected school board members by the Florida constitution.

By contrast, when these questions are decided through a political system, such as elected school boards, parents with differing views must struggle against each other to have the school reflect their views.

Reed Hastings» suggestion that we replace elected school boards with private corporations is the biggest story since Daniel Vasquez (a Latino) became the Merc's last Pulitzer prize finalists in 2005.

The administration's directive ran counter to the FCSBM's Home Rule values which provide accountability through elected school boards.

The report, issued around the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, shows how local elected governance is dissolved as states take over local school districts, stripping power from elected school boards and denying voters the right to govern their local schools.

The Netflix co-founder who has donated some of the biggest sums to charter school causes in California since 2011 thinks elected school boards are holding back education progress in the United States.

Thanks to low turnouts in school district elections, unions essentially elect school board officials, who in turn, appoint superintendents who then select principals.

Meanwhile, Assembly Republicans opposed the bill, arguing it would set a precedent for state takeovers of other school districts, undermining local control and disenfranchising voters who elect school board members.

The review will look at how Nova Scotia public schools are administered, including elected school boards and their central office administration, along with administration at the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

Bramson has, for years, played a direct role in selecting and electing school board candidates, putatively a non-partisan position.

So in the end you will have only ONE Choice and that will be Charters and you will have NO voice because elected school boards will be gone.

More recently, courts have upheld state laws ousting the independently elected school boards in Cleveland, Detroit, and Harrisburg, giving each city's mayor the power to appoint all or most of the new board's members.

The charter effort to strip elected school boards of their right to approve and negotiate contracts also died in committee as did a confusing Return on Investment grading scheme for public schools, which exempted for - profit charters and private voucher schools.

«What this research suggests is that while the interest of mayors in public schools can bring benefits to public education, a mayoral takeover risks disengaging community interests and disregards the governance responsibility of elected school board leaders,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA's Executive Director.

Student & Community Focused FCSBM affirms the importance of local control by accountable elected school board members in service to parents, students and taxpayers.

The new report, «Out of Control: The Systemic Disenfranchisement of African American and Latino Communities Through School Takeovers,» shows how elected school boards have been dissolved or stripped of their power and voters have been denied the right to local governance of their public schools.

In education, it could be read as an argument for «local control» — but with the important caveat that parents, teachers, and principals, not elected school boards, are closest to the action that matters.

Early 20th century Progressive reformers established elected school boards as a means of shielding public school systems from the politics and patronage of corrupt city governments.

Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.

In other districts, voters elect school board members and approve budgets.

Chicago hasn't had an independent elected school board in at least 100 years.

Broad's theory is that public school administrators and elected school boards lack the financial background to run large organizations.

But we strongly agree on the need to give elected school boards relief from onerous mandates that cost taxpayers more money and do little or nothing to improve the quality of public education.

That means these Alabama Counties with Elected School Board Superintendents will be forced to stop conducting elections all together for County Superintendent: Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert, Conecuh, Coosa, DeKalb, Dale, Elmore, Fayette, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Pickens, Randolph, Shelby, St. Clair, Tallapoosa, Walker, Washington, and Winston.

The receiver could fire administrators and staff, scrap collectively bargained union contracts and trump elected school boards and their appointed superintendents.

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.