Sentences with phrase «power over the school district»

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.

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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.

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.»

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

Until 1996, the community school boards had authority over the elementary and middle schools in their districts, including the power to appoint superintendents and to approve the superintendents» choice of principals.

The petition, which was posted on the Power of Ten's website and has been signed by over 4,000 people, was submitted to Legislator Ellen Jaffee, who will deliver it to Education Commissioner John King at the capitol building, a move made to raise awareness for issues in the troubled school district.

The State - appointed fiscal monitor of the East Ramapo school district wants a legislative intervention that would give an appointee veto power over the board's «bad decisions.»

Members of the New York State Assembly and Senate, joined by parents and members of the city's Community Education Councils, on Feb. 28 announced their support for proposed legislation that would give the local councils veto power over proposed school co-locations in their districts.

Watch for heightened debate - and finally some decisions - about recurring issues: the state's Brownfield Tax Credit program, justice reforms (see below), renewing the New York City mayor's power over its massive school district, and, of course, school funding.

With the frequent reports of school districts doing a poor job of fulfilling their authorizing duties and school districts» authorizing over half of the nation's charter schools, it is easy to see how the real power of the chartering strategy is being negated.

Amid continuing legal and political battles over the eight charter schools without walls now operating in the Keystone State, the legislature shifted the power to grant charters for such Internet - based schools from local school districts to the education department.

The four dissenting justices pointed to the considerable authority the state enjoyed over school districts, including the «wide - ranging powers to consolidate and merge school districts, even without the consent of the districts themselves or of the local citizenry.»

To keep the district solvent, the state of California provided a $ 100 million line of credit and took over the district's operations, stripping the school board of all but advisory powers and appointing an administrator to replace Chaconas.

Schwarzenegger also stepped into a dispute over the future of the state's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, siding with Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa against the district's board and the teachers union (see «Power Struggle in Los Angeles,» forum, Summer 2007).

The Quality Single Accountability System (QSAC), which is the state's way of monitoring schools, gives the state the power to take over a district.

Having asked for full control over the entire district, he might say that if he had been given such powers, those schools would be getting better, too.

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.

The California legislature, with the enthusiastic support of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, passed a bill last summer that seemed to grant the dynamic mayor significant new powers over the sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation's second - largest, with 873 schools spread across 700 square miles and 27 cities.

The famed Michelle Rhee came in as chancellor in 2007 after the district's school board was stripped of powers due to gross mismanagement over the previous four decades, including financial corruption, nepotism, and union heads going to jail for embezzlement.

As an authorizer, the district would have power of approval and input over a charter school application and could determine how it would fit into the district's education goals.

This process has been meaningful to parents for decades, but it's been increasingly pushed aside as school districts like CPS give standardized test scores more and more power over students, teachers and schools.

Answer: For too long, power over urban schools has rested too much with district central offices and not enough with parents.

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleSchool in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleschool with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

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.

More specifically, the PED is actively seizing power and authority over local school districts» teacher evaluation systems, and in this case the extent to which sick leave is to be used to hold teachers accountable for their effectiveness.

But he's also run a divisive campaign and plotted with another conservative challenger to team up against Evers in exchange for a fat salary and personal driver at DPI — as well as power over urban school districts.

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

Instead, Brown has promoted an approach that gives local school districts more control and decisionmaking powers, including over how their progress should be assessed.

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.

The Senate sent a bill to the president's desk Wednesday that replaces much of the widely disliked No Child Left Behind Act and shifts more power over education to states and school districts.

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

Part of that proposal suggested if Holtz dropped out he would be put in charge of a handful of large school districts and given powers to break apart districts and take over school boards — abilities that do not exist in state law.

One of the most contentious aspects of Governor Malloy's «education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.

Principals in this school district now have more decision - making power over how their school is managed and can customize education to the unique needs of their students.

In short, the bill's proponents argued that, in return for decreased state funding, giving school districts greater power over their workers would allow them to hire and retain high - quality teachers at a lower cost.

In her years as a GLISI Consultant, Georgia has worked with school and district leaders in GLISI's Power of 100 Districts, redesigned GLISI's coaching model, and provided training to over 400 GLISI - trained leadership performance coaches.

After he won a second term, though, the Republican instead unveiled a proposal to create a statewide district with the power to take over Georgia's most distressed schools.

Dawn, the only real direct power that parents have over school districts is in their ability to vote for the members of the school board.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomowants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

wants more state power to take over persistently failing schools and districts, and released a report Thursday detailing per - pupil costs in 178 of the most troubled schools statewide.

(Santa Monica, CA)-- September 2, 2010 — Global Green USA and the Santa Monica - Malibu Unified School District celebrated last night's board passage of the School District's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivDistrict celebrated last night's board passage of the School District's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivDistrict's decision to adopt a plan for installing solar panels on nine elementary schools that will generate nearly two - thirds of all the power needs for the schools, save the district $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty fivdistrict $ 2.8 million - $ 5.1 million dollars and reduce 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next twenty five years.