Sentences with phrase «over the school system»

Different levels of government — local, intermediate, and national — have varying degrees of control over school systems worldwide.

Mayors have taken over school systems in Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago.

The school board was reconvened and met, just once, to reappoint Mr. Bloomberg's schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, and give him full authority over the school system.

Charter school interests that was to see de Blasio's power over the school system weakened and real estate interests that want to see the status quo maintained in the rent laws spent big money to help the Senate Republicans and Cuomo in this election cycle.

The EPA does not have jurisdiction over school systems except those few that maintain their own independent water supply.

The law, which gives the mayor oversight over the school system of 1.1 million students, is set to expire on July 1.

And they extended the New York City Mayor's control over the school system for just one year.

Ryan and other defenders of «benign» racial sorting, in contrast, insist that the use of remedies originally available only to judges charged with dismantling an entrenched racial caste system in the South should also be available to public officials presiding over school systems that have not violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

However, Villaraigosa still may have significant influence over the school system.

McQueen, formerly the senior vice president and dean of the college of education at Lipscomb University, took over the school system last year upon the departure of Kevin Huffman, the divisive education reformer who oversaw significant changes to the state's K - 12 system.

Farina takes over a school system with the second highest charter school enrollment in the nation and one of the highest performing charter sectors in the country.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

This is the most dramatic change in school management since Tom Boasberg took over the school system in 2009.

In many cities, Progressive reformers had long ago succeeded in stripping mayors of their authority over the school system.

Then he and his aides set about persuading the borough presidents to appoint people who supported maintaining the mayor's power over the school system.

The focus shifted when the State of California took over the school system in the 90s, and schools with sub par test results were identified.

Their concerns are always focused on New York City, and in this case its mayoral control over the school system.

Then on Friday, his attorneys continued that tack, examining the influence Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore has over the school system and pressing one board member on how much union support she received during the last election.

And - New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio is seeking renewal of a law that gives the mayor more control over the school system.

But the mayors were skeptical about both the prospects for and advisability of taking direct control over their school systems and were looking for other, more innovative ways to intervene to improve schools.

The control board then dealt a series of blows to the elected school board, beginning with its firing of Franklin Smith, normally a board prerogative, and ending with the transfer of control over the school system to a new, nine - member board of trustees.

He said, «I'm not going to take over the school system, but I'd like to be a voice for public education and for public education reform and for innovation.»

Governor Malloy's original «education reform» bill included language that mandated that when the State of Connecticut takes over a school system, the education commissioner will have the authority to approve or reject the local board's choice for superintendent.

RESPONSE: The Governor proposes to spend $ 25 million dollars over two years to help 25 school districts once the state has «taken over the school system».