Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that
remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.
Remove local control of school boards CRC Member Erika Donalds, a pro choice Collier County School Board member, would remove these local options that districts now have by: 1.
Not exact matches
If the court claims that charters
remove students from the «
local control»
of their district, how can a Washington student enrolled in a public
school in Oregon be under the «
local control»
of its sending district?
Contributing around 10 percent
of public
school costs, the US Department
of Education imposed further requirements and regulations on the public
schools, which
removed another major fraction
of local boards»
control over
school policy.
Opponents tend to complain that the districts divert funding from public
schools (forgetting that they are still public) and that they
remove control of schools from
local oversight, handing them to state authorities and even (gasp) charter
school operators.
A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to
remove public
schools out
of the
control of local community
school boards and hand them over to boards made up
of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.
WHAT»S WRONG: Too many «reforms»
remove schools from
local control, muting the voices and decisionmaking power
of parents and
local communities.
We must seize upon the opportunity presented by Gov. Brown's commitment and begin working earnestly on designing a
school finance system that
removes the red tape and «command and
control» at the state level and allows educators to meet the needs
of their
local students.
Under Tennessee's program,
schools in the bottom 5 % on state accountability measures were
removed from the
control of their
local school district and placed under the purview
of the ASD.