Sentences with phrase «power over schools»

The possessive refers to unions and their power over schools.

The bill allows charter schools to open in low - performing districts, and gives school boards in high performing districts veto power over the schools.

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For a guy with no legal power over the schools, Booker has been a prominent force in Newark education reform, both for popular and unpopular reasons.

Teacher organizations, at the same time, asserted their right to bargain collectively and to strike, which brought them unprecedented power over schools and school systems.

He was backed with the wide - ranging power over schools granted the mayor.

The meetings offered a preview of the debate over mayoral control, which puts power over the schools in the hands of City Hall, and which Mayor Bill de Blasio — in what has become an annual ritual — must persuade the state to renew.

In contrast 38 % think parents do not have enough power over schools and 41 % think headteachers do not have enough power.

When the board met on July 1, however, the Bronx appointee voted with the other members to keep Mr. Klein as chancellor and give him full power over the schools, including allowing him to approve contracts.

Like other powers over the schools, education - related contracting — totaling billions of dollars per year — has been

Legislative leaders are nearing an agreement that would increase oversight over Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo schools and provide $ 5 million a year to restore programs, but it does not include veto power over the school board, according to Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind and a Jewish group criticized a state report on the East Ramapo school district, saying that the report's recommendation to install monitor with veto power over the school board is «unjust» and «an insult to the community.»

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.

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 state education department plans to install a monitor to oversee East Ramapo schools, but the monitor won't have veto power over the school board's actions, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

As mayor of Yonkers, Spano has more power over the school district than any other local leader in the state, with the exception of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.

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.

He discusses how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) came about and what standardization has done; the power over schooling; the holes in the higher education of the teaching profession; holes in the teaching profession itself; how the remaking of education is working backwards; and what would be the most beneficial steps to take in the remaking of education.

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

With a system in which the governor and the state education chief have less power over school issues than their counterparts in almost any other state, initiative has been left to local school districts, and little has happened.

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

Taking family partnership to this deeper level requires educators to broaden their focus from one of including all families in school - led practices to one of developing trusting relationships and sharing power over school decision making.

The Court of Appeals also noted the children had been attending private religious school before the dissolution and Romine did not object or bargain for veto power over school selection when negotiating the terms of the Parenting Plan.

Not exact matches

We explore the waning power of the KKK, the argument over whether a New Mexico school shooter was a racist finally seems settled and more.

Even if NYC representatives were to say «Yes, worship on those dates and cancel school» doesn't it still place the local powers that be over and above their specific worshipping practices, regulating them on their political terms?

It may be that Brown can be so sanguine about overcoming the fragmenting effects of disciplinary diversity because the national scholarly organizations that institutionalize the various academic guilds today exercised less political power in the 1930s over scholars» standing with peers, mobility from school to school, and promotion to tenure.

What we do have through the Niebuhr - Williams - Gustafson study, as through its predecessors, is clear evidence of the power of the «Berlin» Wissenschaft - cum - professional school model of excellence in schooling over North American theological schools.

The extreme opposites of the bi-nationalist school, the hard - line protagonists of violence and armed power as the only way to establish and maintain a Zionist settlement in Palestine (or over all of it), held that the Arabs were intransigently opposed to this venture and regarded the immigrating European Jews as racial outsiders, as intruders in their own ancestral living - space, and would harass and murder them and strangle their venture unless they were beaten back by superior fire - power.

School is over and I am currently listening to the podcast WTF with Marc Maron (episode 594 with Jon Ronson) and awing at the crazy power of twitter / all social media to completely ruin people's lives.

We still need to recruit well from power house high school and Junior / Community College baseball programs all over.

SB Nation compiled the recruiting classes for each of the Power 5 schools over the last four seasons and determined that Alabama, USC, Ohio State, LSU, Notre Dame, Florida State, Michigan, Auburn, UCLA, Texas A&M, Georgia, Clemson, and Texas — can win it all.

When someone has left which happens at AAC schools they tend to hop over to Power 5 he then replaces with quality hires.

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.

The key is not to get drawn into a power struggle with your child over school, but to address the underlying problem.

Before school starts, talk to your kids about what bullying is using language they can understand: someone with more social or physical power purposefully trying to cause distress or harm to another person in physical, psychological, or social ways, often repeating it over time even though the victim wants it to stop.

We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

I do feel that is unfortunate that RD's in schools may seem to have less power over influencing how school lunch programs are run, often because they have less oversight and are often guided or trying to follow the school nutrition standards.

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

As if that was not enough, the defiant Power Minister also refused to be dragged into the controversy over when the intermittent power crisis will officially come to an end, following a renewed promise by the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, during the commissioning of the Bamiankor Community Day Senior High School in the Western Region, that the crisis would soon come to anPower Minister also refused to be dragged into the controversy over when the intermittent power crisis will officially come to an end, following a renewed promise by the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, during the commissioning of the Bamiankor Community Day Senior High School in the Western Region, that the crisis would soon come to anpower crisis will officially come to an end, following a renewed promise by the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, during the commissioning of the Bamiankor Community Day Senior High School in the Western Region, that the crisis would soon come to an end.

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

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.

And for the money, which the Department of Justice believes topped $ 474,000 over the course of the bribery scheme to help influence the corporate goals of a Maryland - based power company, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a school teacher, worked between two and 15 hours per month.

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.

Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.

Charter school advocates may gain power if a law giving the mayor control over the schools expires and the old Board of Education structure returns.

The city Education Council Consortium is urging Albany lawmakers to curb the mayor's power over city schools, which is due to expire next month.

State takeover would strip de Blasio of most of his power over low - performing schools, which the mayor has argued would be anathema to the system of mayoral control.

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.

In 2016, in exchange for granting Mayor Bill de Blasio an extension of mayoral control over schools, the Republicans in the State Senate, to whom Ms. Moskowitz has close ties, inserted broad language in the legislation giving SUNY the power to promulgate regulations for the schools it oversees.

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