Sentences with phrase «power over public schools»

Eli Broad is a wealthy individual, accountable to no one but himself, who wields vast power over our public schools.

There are also raw, long - term battles being fought on new fronts: The teachers» unions, for instance, hate Cuomo's proposed tax breaks for private schools, and the governor disdains the unions» power over public schools.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

De Blasio's power over city schools has already been somewhat diminished by the new pro-charter state law dictating how the city must accommodate charters in both public and private space.

To improve mobility and traffic patterns, the project will include: · Improved access to Woodbury Common Premium Outlets · Replacing the Route 32 bridge over Route 17, which will include standard Interstate height clearance over Route 17 · Reconstruction and expansion of Park and Ride facilities which will include a bus stop and solar - powered bus station to promote public transit · Reconfiguring the Route 17, Exit 131 eastbound ramp leading to the Thruway · A new interconnected and adaptive traffic signal system along Route 32 to minimize delays and enhance access to local businesses and schools · Intelligent Transportation Systems to adapt to changing traffic conditions and optimize signal responses

«Buffalo is a better place today because Carl Paladino no longer has any power or authority over the lives of tens of thousands of children of color in the Buffalo Public Schools,» the Buffalo chapter of Showing up for Racial Justice, which has staged a series of anti-Paladino protests, said in a statement.

After Senate Republicans proposed a one - year extension last weekend with an independent inspector with new oversight powers over city schools, the bill was met with such dissent that Flanagan was forced to publicly defend his belief in public education over multiple days at the Capitol.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

In the 1999 Booth decision, the Colorado Supreme Court rejected the Denver board's position, finding that the constitution's grant of «general supervision» over public education to the state board was broad enough to encompass the power to approve local charter schools.

The shift in power over the last 30 years from local authorities to schools means the largest volunteer force in the country has had to transform itself from «friends of the school», to a body capable of running a multimillion - pound key public service.»

For example, Victorian public schools have power over most of their own budget — including staff hiring - while other states, such as New South Wales, make large budget and staffing decisions centrally, leaving schools with minimal autonomy.

Their discussion with Ashley Carter largely centered on the separate powers of the organizations which preside over DC public and charter schools.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, Calif., will open for the academic year on Monday as the first school in the nation to have been remade under a law that gives parents the power to take over a low - performing public school and fire the principal, dismiss teachers or bring in private management.

California is focusing on improving public education with a bold two-fold strategy: rebuilding the capacity and local decision - making power of its about 1,000 school districts with LCFF and implementing the new Common Core standards over this school year and next.

But what is most dangerous about DeVos is not just her incompetence, but the power she wields as U.S. Secretary of Education, her willful disrespect of public schools and the staff and students who work in them, and her zealous commitment to turning our nation's public schools over to private interests.

In several reports, he described the decline of public education as the direct consequence of public districts» monopolistic power over schooling.

While it possible they may be lying to themselves as well as us about their intentions to turn public schools and students over to private interests, the fact remains that their actions are are based on greed, power and control.

The drama over New York City school facilities underscores the need to adhere to an important principle for governance reform: If public officials regularly misuse a power, it should be taken away from them.

Still, Cerf sounded ready for the likely debate over the extent of the state's powers, saying any criticism that the administration is seeking to dismantle or privatize public schools is ill - founded.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

So thinking back over the last couple of years as the Long Island Power Authority has struggled along with local environmental groups in New York to educate the public about the clear environmental benefits of clean energy and what could be the first offshore wind farm in the US, it seems apparent to me that if area schools had access to a program such as KidWind 15 - 20 years ago the resistance they've encountered today might well be less intense and better informed.

The committee was concerned about local authorities» inappropriate use of RIPA powers to spy on the public over issues such as littering and to check residential status over school applications, a clear misuse of power.»