Sentences with phrase «oversight of public school districts»

While county government does not have oversight of public school districts, I believe...

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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;

ALBANY — The tensions between the Jewish and black and Hispanic communities in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district were mirrored Thursday in the state Assembly, where lawmakers debated and ultimately approved by an unusually low margin a bill establishing state oversight of the public schools.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

Opponents tend to complain that the districts divert funding from public schools (forgetting that they are still public) and that they remove control of schools from local oversight, handing them to state authorities and even (gasp) charter school operators.

But in a sector of public education with far less oversight than traditional school districts, it's easy to see how a teacher could find herself fired and out of options.

Private schools do not report to any public boards - there is no public oversight and private schools are not required to follow the rules and regulations of local school districts.

The opinion, issued Thursday, found current law «indicates the General Assembly intended to treat the Chicago Public Schools differently than other Illinois school districts with respect to financial oversight by the State Board of Education.»

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS],Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both charters and traditional public schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).

The CSD also coordinates the federal Public Charter Schools Grant Program, charter school numbering by the State Board of Education (SBE), facilitates the SBE Advisory Commission on Charter Schools, and provides staff oversight for SBE authorized charter schools and all - charter disSchools Grant Program, charter school numbering by the State Board of Education (SBE), facilitates the SBE Advisory Commission on Charter Schools, and provides staff oversight for SBE authorized charter schools and all - charter disSchools, and provides staff oversight for SBE authorized charter schools and all - charter disschools and all - charter districts.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

Students who leave a public school district to attend a charter school — an independent public school that operates free of district oversight — take with them a slice of state aid that would have gone to the local district.

Also, South Kent does enjoy the status of being a private school, so while it's not about the funding issue, it is definitely an oversight issue; the school is fairly autonomous, as opposed to public schools who have an elected school board making broad, sweeping, one - size - fits - all curriculum decisions for every school in its district.