Sentences with phrase «oversight of schools»

He is recommending state oversight of the school board, and state lawmakers were meeting this afternoon to discuss how to craft legislation to make it happen.

Innovative Quality Schools is responsible for providing oversight of our school.

First, there is far greater state oversight of school boards than of other local governments.

The new initiative has incentives for states to treat the block grants solely as a funding stream and to provide minimal oversight of the schools that students attend with the voucher funds.

Without a doubt, the dangerous lack of local oversight of our schools system, and is putting children at risk.»

Federal oversight of school desegregation goes back to the civil rights era — it predates the existence of the U.S. Department of Education itself.

I believe that it reflects the legislative intent of the Innovation law in that it clarifies the relationship between schools and the district while preserving district oversight of schools in terms of performance.

There are so many issues surrounding charter schools that in October 2016, leaders of the NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, bucked intense pressure from charter supporters and ratified a resolution calling for a moratorium on the expansion of charters and for stronger oversight of these schools.

«Without a doubt, the dangerous lack of local oversight of our schools system, created by the Tories» education policy, is putting children at risk.»

The decades since the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, have seen significant judicial oversight of school desegregation efforts in states across the country.

«Had Monroe City School Board better performed their duties regarding oversight of this school during the last four years, this whole ordeal for parents and taxpayers could have been avoided.»

«As the number of academies and free schools has increased, the eight RSCs have recruited strong teams to support their work to provide effective oversight of schools and advise the national school commissioner and ministers.»

The question isn't whether New Orleans is ready to restore oversight of our schools to local control.

The previous rules — developed by the Texas Education Agency when it had oversight of school nutrition — only barred the sale of soda and the other products from eating areas, including the cafeteria.

Supporters of the motion argued that the Lib Dems needed to reassert their party policy made before the general election, which backed local authorities retaining strategic oversight of school places paid for with public money.

The report argues that there is now insufficient local oversight of school performance and the creation of locally accountable school commissioners, appointed by partnerships of local authorities across city or county regions, would act to address this vacuum and support better local coordination of education.

In addition, the IBO said Cuomo wants to cut funding for charter - school lease compensation by $ 86 million while also tightening oversight of school budgets.

He wants to see oversight of schools in NYC yet in his own backyard in LI there always seems to be fuzzy math.

The Republican majority in the State Senate summarily dismissed the mayor's pleas for a lengthy extension for mayoral oversight of schools, turning his pursuit of a three - year deal against him — wringing out concessions, including new financial disclosures and a shift in oversight of the city's charter school system.

He added: «How, we should ask, are local authorities to be expected to fulfil their statutory obligation to find places for all children in their areas when they no longer have oversight of school improvement and planning and do not have the power to determine school expansion?

My results suggest that, following a fail rating and the subsequent increased oversight of schools, teachers increase their effort.

Inspectors said trustees had «not held leaders to account for continued poor performance, nor kept sound oversight of the school's improvement and school finances».

The Office is also charged with production of the HGSE course catalogue and class schedule, and with oversight of the school's course evaluation process.

It claims that restoring local oversight of all school finances would «provide democratic accountability» and ensure that public money was not misused.

After relaxing some of the fiscal oversight of schools during the state's fiscal crisis, lawmakers were warned Monday to avoid making any further changes that could hamper identification of school districts headed for trouble.

The new management structure will consolidate oversight of schools under the Chief Schools Officer, a new position recently filled by Susanna Cordova.

«Failed oversight of school - level leadership by the former CEO led to the identified problems» at SciTech, the Recovery School District report says.

This study shows the importance of having federal oversight of school discipline practices particularly when the practices promoted locally contradict what the preponderance of evidence has shown to be bad for kids.

The Hechinger Report's Emmanuel Felton was on both WNYC and EWA Radio, talking about his recent story about federal oversight of schools resegregating.

Leaders of the NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the United States, took a controversial stand in October by ratifying a resolution calling for a moratorium on expanding public charter school funding until there is better oversight of these schools and more transparency from charter operators.

«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»

Dehesa has approved more than a dozen charters and charter resource centers to operate throughout San Diego County, raising questions about its small staff's ability to provide proper oversight of the schools.

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is governed by the School Reform Commission (SRC) which was established in December 2001, when oversight of the School District shifted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Betsy DeVos has made clear her interest is in promoting choice, including for - profit charters, and has helped promote them in her own state, Michigan, also working against efforts to allow real public oversight of these schools.

We want to see robust accountability and oversight of all schools regardless of type,» she said.

Perhaps most startling about the report is the repeated references to how the expansion of charters, and the many problems associated with them, was enabled by poor reporting from major media outlets and by government officials» inability or reluctance to exert oversight of these schools.

When it comes to charters, nine authorizers are the ones who approve applications and control oversight of the schools.

The Guild provides back office support for operations, facility management, public relations and marketing services, management of computer and information technology support, purchasing and management of business operations, fundraising, training, special education consultation, and management oversight of the school's principal.

A raft of reforms to school accountability, including an education commissioner for Birmingham, inspections of city academy chains and new oversight of school governors, were announced on Tuesday by the education secretary in response to a damning report into extremist infiltration of schools.

That kind of arrangement is a sticking point in New Bedford — along with potentially transferring oversight of schools to an appointed governing board.

The Board bears responsibility for strategic and financial oversight of the school.

She is an unabashed supporter of charter schools and has worked in the past against strong oversight of the schools.

«The events in Birmingham have exposed David Cameron's government's failure to deliver effective oversight of our schools.

«The dangerous void in the local oversight of our schools system, created by this government's education policy, is allowing children to end up in harm's way,» said Ms Powell.

Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said Labour was committed to providing stronger local oversight of schools.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.