Sentences with phrase «over local schools»

The 1995 legislation also gave the school board sweeping new powers over individual schools and principals, allowing the board to take over local schools that were in crisis.
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.
And the leader of Yonkers already has more power over the local school district that any other mayor outside New York City.
They asked the state superintendent of public instruction, Richard Ross, to take over their local school system.
Is anybody concerned that accepting stimulus money also means accepting more FEDERAL control over LOCAL schools?
It's a controversial model that, based on the numbers reported in similar programs in Tennessee, Michigan and Louisiana, has produced mixed results and bitter opposition from local parents, many of whom are fired up over the notion of turning over their local schools to outside charters.
More specifically, the PED is actively seizing power and authority over local school districts» teacher evaluation systems, and in this case the extent to which sick leave is to be used to hold teachers accountable for their effectiveness.
«Anything that would have changed diluted or created stronger state intervention over local school districts would have defeated the purpose,» Wylde said.
It's an unprecedented degree of control of a governor over local school districts.»
The conservatives who took charge of the House in 1995 wanted to reduce federal school spending and shrink the U.S. Department of Education's influence over local schools, if not abolish the agency altogether.
The new laws seek to strengthen superintendents and principals over local school boards, which are bastions of bureaucratic and union intransigence.»
In his latest Hartford Courant column, Rick Green suggests that the solution to getting the Governor's «Education Reform» bill passed is to drop his effort to repeal the teacher tenure system in return for the Democratic legislators giving in to his demand that Stefan Pryor, Malloy's education commissioner, be given the power to take over some local schools so they can be turned over to some new company or entity.
, further lamented the federal control that King's proposals would place over local schools.
The proposed constitutional amendment would create an «Opportunity School District» which would allow the state to take over local schools under the conditions determined by the General Assembly.
And the Florida Department of Education has gushed over the local school system.
Today's session is specifically about public services, and will look at how to make the provision of these services fairer, give people more power over their local schools, hospitals and transport systems, and ensure they continue to be efficient.
Although the Israeli Ministry of Education currently exercises a large measure of control over local schools, the picture presented by Israeli education is not one of top - down control and clear lines of authority.
And if that wasn't enough, the Coalition for Education Reform's most shocking agenda item is their unquestioning support for Governor Malloy's proposal to dramatically expand the State Department of Education's ability to sweep in and take over local school systems.
In Muncie, it would turn over the local schools to Ball State University.
No Child Left Behind, the result of bipartisan deal - making between President George W. Bush and the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D - Mass), significantly expanded federal authority over local schools.
The state took over their local school district and signed a multimillion dollar contract with a for - profit education management organization.
The existing language says that the State Board of Education can not authorize the Commissioner of Education to take over a local school system and dismiss the locally elected board unless the local board has been given the special training.
Predicted that a bill pending in the state Legislature that would enable the state to take over local school districts will pass within two years and that Buffalo could be a prime candidate for a takeover.
Under the reforms, communities gain unprecedented power over local schools» curricula, significant portions of the school day go to arts instruction and community service, and teachers are required to incorporate hands - on, exploratory teaching techniques pioneered by researchers such as HGSE professors Eleanor Duckworth and Howard Gardner.
That spirit animates Amendment 8, which former Miami - Dade School Board member Janet McAliley singled out for criticism in a recent opinion piece, «Tallahassee pols concoct a sneaky way to take away your power over local schools
First, the current structure of the national Department of Education gives it inordinate control over local schools.
While Governor Malloy tours that state to talk about his reform proposals and the battle rages about charter schools and insufficient funding and doing away with tenure, deep inside Malloy's «education reform bill» is a change to the state's requirement to help train board of education members before the state can take over a local school system.
«Local councils will continue to be responsible for making sure the most vulnerable children in their area get the education they deserve but they'll have to do this without having any control over local schools
Under present Connecticut law, the state of Connecticut can intervene and take over local schools.
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