Sentences with phrase «over the school district»

This is not exactly news; states have been taking over school districts for years, often for lengthy periods.

As if all that were not enough, unions have an ace up their sleeve: Their sway over school districts.

Consequently, the state can intervene proactively and take over the school district.

School districts can decide individually whether to prohibit parents from bringing sweets to school, said Miller, who added he wants to further limit state control over school districts by lifting bans on deep - fat frying at schools and the sale of sodas starting in middle school.

• Mosaica Education, one of the two charter school operators being considered, took over a school district in Michigan and then ended its contract with the district early because of financial issues.

It also became a major issue in the mayoral election, even though the Denver mayor holds no legal authority over the school district.

Since the State took over the School District of Philadelphia in 2001, it has been run by an appointed School Reform Commission (SRC).

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

Worked with the Legislature and Governor to approve legislation that continues the appointment of monitors in East Ramapo, provides new oversight authority for the monitors and the Department over the school district's budget, and provides $ 3 million in state funds to restore and expand educational programming for the public schools within the district;

Priore's resignation Wednesday, in protest over the school district's handling of a new nursing contract and what she described as a lack of transparency, sets the stage for the School Board to select a new Park District board member by June 16.

The County may not have direct say over school districts, but that will not affect my focus.

As mayor of Yonkers, Spano has more power over the school district than any other local leader in the state, with the exception of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.

Engler saw the chartering strategy as a politically viable means for gaining leverage over school districts and other interests that he felt were not serious about improving education.

The law mandates the awarding of legal fees to the parents of handicapped children who prevail over school districts in special - education «actions or proceedings.»

The four dissenting justices pointed to the considerable authority the state enjoyed over school districts, including the «wide - ranging powers to consolidate and merge school districts, even without the consent of the districts themselves or of the local citizenry.»

Even this significantly understates the decline in local influence over school district revenues.

Fired up over school district administrators» proposed staffing shake - up that would remove teachers from as many as 24 schools, a group of roughly two - dozen parents briefly shut down a Seattle school board committee meeting Wednesday night.

Then the state took over the school districts through same methodology, using federal and further state law, amending district policies to match.

Holtz also was questioned over a discussion he had with former candidate John Humphries about getting out of the race in exchange for a three - year, six - figure DPI job that included a personal driver and the ability to take over school districts with persistent achievement gaps.

Building on the recent and historic intergovernmental cooperation agreement between the district and City Council to expand transparency and access to information, we are calling for Council to convene a formal representative body, such as a Citizens» commission, comprised of a broad array of stakeholders, who can advise and assist City Council in exercising review and oversight over the School District of Philadelphia.

In Wake County, North Carolina, frequent student reassignments created controversy over the school district's long - standing socioeconomic integration plan.

In the U.S., most significant education policy changes come at the state level, as states have direct control over the school districts within their borders.

Thus it is an ideal school that comes from a neighborhood with the overall average income and with a within - school standard deviation that is in some sense an average of the within - school standard deviations over the school district.

Here's one article or you can google and find some other articles about it too, if you'd like, but it seems that the Hasidics are taking over the school district boards and diverting a lot of the funding for religious schools, which is hurting the regular public schools» funding.

Yet this is a pivotal moment not just for Caputo - Pearl and Crenshaw but for a black community that has been largely absent from an education reform movement that hit a milestone last week with the passage in Sacramento of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bill to gain more control over the school district.

Senator Fischer, a former school board member and past president of the Nebraska Association of School Boards, introduced the amendment with Senators King and Tester to «ensure that communities have ultimate authority over their school districts,» and «strengthen the relationship among local school board members and parents.»

Mississippi law allows the State to take over school districts in two distinct ways: by declaring a state of emergency and converting districts into «transformation» status or absorbing them into the new statewide Achievement School District.

He will benefit from state legislation that enables him to take over the school district and frees him from regulatory and collective bargaining constraints during the reform's start - up phase.

African - American parents grew so disillusioned that many formed an organization devoted to taking over the school district and ending the case.

California's Superintendent of Public Instruction sent a letter Thursday to Ingelwood's elected school board members telling them the state's taking over the school district.

Dawn, the only real direct power that parents have over school districts is in their ability to vote for the members of the school board.

I guess that's not quite as bizarre as it sounds: judges have taken over school districts and city governments and made administrative decisions from the court room.