Sentences with phrase «power over school policy»

Romero, who served last year as chair of the Senate Education Committee, held considerable power over school policy issues while in office.

Of 114 editorials on education in the city's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun Times, between August 1995 and March 1997, three out of four endorsed the district leadership's complete exercise of power over school policy issues.

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However, on other issues, Quinn hewed closer to the mayor's policies, saying that community education councils should «in some cases» not have veto power over co-locations in their school districts and that the next schools chancellor need not «necessarily» be an educator.

At one point Ms Kendall rued that there had been no «ambitious, inspiring» Labour policies on education, but Mr Hunt contradicted her by citing plans to devolve powers over schools to local communities.

The board would have the power over every aspect of the sprawling school system, from budgets to policies to appointments.

Regaining mayoral control of schools was one Michael Bloomberg's greatest legislative achievements as mayor; it marked the first time City Hall gained discretion over education policy since the Lindsay administration, when those powers were decentralized and major decisions were made by an education board.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

In a test of Denver's new system of school - based management, several schools are engaged in what is being called a «power struggle» with the board of education over the right to set testing policy.

See, e.g., Coleman, The Struggle for Control of Education, in Education and Social Policy: Local Control of Education 64, 77 - 79 (C. Bowers, I. Housego & D. Dyke eds.1970); J. Conant, The Child, The Parent, and The State 27 (1959)(«Unless a local community, through its school board, has some control over the purse, there can be little real feeling in the community that the schools are in fact, local schools...»); Howe, Anatomy of a Revolution, in Saturday Review 84, 88 (Nov. 20, 1971)(«It is an axiom of American politics that control and power follow money...»); R. Hutchinson, State - Administered Locally Shared Taxes 21 (1931)-LRB-» [S] tate administration of taxation is the first step toward state control of the functions supported by these taxes...»).

Journalist Toby Young, who helped set up a free school in west London, said Mr Hunt had been «less than candid» about Labour's policy as it was considering granting councils the power of veto over free schools in their boroughs.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

In examining the issues and exercise of power that are sustained in the long - standing policy of standardized testing in schools, this work provides a big picture perspective on assessment practices over time in the U. S.; by examining the rise of value - added assessment in Tennessee, a fine - grained and contemporary case is provided within that larger context.

«The governor's extreme power grab must not spill over into education policy in our schools.