Parents, teachers, elected officials and civic organizations have written letters of support to Hall, urging him to allow the two Durham schools to
remain under local control.
Not exact matches
The plans outline that every school will be in the process of being converted into an academy by 2020, with no schools
remaining under local authority
control by 2022.
Schools
remaining under Local Authority
control are not eligible to claim the Employment Allowance; however Academies and Free Schools may be entitled to claim.
Some Mississippi districts have returned to
local control after one year while others
remain under state
control after six years.
The Orleans Parish School Board fired its teachers after the storm, and the state board of education took
control of all but the 13 best schools, which
remain under the
local board.
But he
remains critical of Education Secretary Michael Gove's free schools policy,
under which parents and other groups are able to establish schools operating outside
local authority
control.
It has also created some worry for those schools whose budget for the 2014 - 15 school year will
remain the same
under the state's new
Local Control Funding Formula, but will now have to dip into their pockets for classroom necessities.