Sentences with phrase «restore local control»

The first two would restore local control over charter decisions, and the third would assure that all public schools be fully - staffed with certified teachers.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

According to the Education and the Workforce Committee, «The Student Success Act (H.R. 5) will restore local control, support more effective teachers, reduce the federal footprint, and empower parents.»

We wanted to restore local control, and we wanted to empower parents with some choices.

If we are ever to restore local control and public accountability to America's education system, the College Board's recent power grab must be a central component of the debate over Common Core.

A nine - member Newark Educational Success Board, whose members include parents, students, and business and community leaders appointed by the mayor and governor, has been tasked with developing a plan that will restore local control as soon as possible.

Assemblyman Fred Thiele, a Republican from Long Island says the change would restore local control to school districts.

«The Governor, Legislature, Education Commissioner, and Board of Regents must restore local control of our schools,» Astorino said.

ESSA «was supposed to unleash a wave of innovation by getting Uncle Sam off the backs of state and local educators and restoring local control,» says Education Post Executive Director Peter Cunningham in US News & World Report.

HB176 is the ONLY legislation that restores local control by returning authority back to our parents and schools!

In a statement of intent released Wednesday, Kline said he'll pursue an education reform plan that «restores local control, empowers parents, lets teachers teach, and protects taxpayers.»

pursuing education reform that restores local control, empowers parents, lets teachers teach, and protects taxpayers.

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1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

The governor says he vetoed legislation because control boards such as NIFA need ability to «restore fiscal order» to local governments.

Control boards such as NIFA are intended to «restore fiscal order» to local governments, Cuomo noted in a veto message issued Tuesday.

As a Southampton Town Board member, Ms. Fleming says she's helped to eliminate a budget deficit, thereby restoring the town's credit rating; focused on proper staffing and controls in the town finance department; and spearheaded economic initiatives such as the Farm Fresh Market in Flanders, which is run by teenagers and sells local produce, and the Youth Build Project in Riverside, which teaches young people about sustainable building methods while restoring blighted homes.

In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schools.

Once June 30 comes and goes, the bureaucratic wheels of restoring control to local New York City school boards begins.

What is certain is that turning back the clock now and restoring some semblance of local control with regard to school places planning will be both costly and complex.

Baynes notesthat rather than declaring bankruptcy or submitting to a state takeover by a financial control board, cities would like to see state government restore funding to local governments that has been cut in recent years.

Restore the right of parents to direct their children's education, and Keep control of schools with the local school board, not with state or federal agencies.

Seems to me that an administration that cares about choice, about achievement, about state and local control of education, and about restoring the proper role of the federal government with regard to civil rights now has ample reason — maybe even urgent reason — to make known its views and take corrective action.

Opponents of the state's post-Katrina intervention rallied to the cry of «local control,» which usually meant restoring power to the school board or something like it.

As a candidate in 2003, he criticized the performance of the schools and pledged to restore more control to local districts.

Jersey City's public schools have faced some serious challenges, including being in a school district that just had local control restored after years of being administered by the state of New Jersey.

Missed Opportunities to Restore State, Local, and Parental Control.

The Golden State's new Local Control Funding Formula is restoring education money cut during the recent recession.

The compromise would restore more local control, albeit not enough for some House conservatives who have vehemently opposed it on those grounds.

«I see this as a good step toward limiting federal intervention in education and restoring state and local control,» said Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation.

With ESSA came the promise to reduce the federal role and restore state and local control over K - 12 education.

It is our responsibility to stop this destruction and restore education to its statutorily defined and protected local control status where the parents can direct their child's education.

For most districts, funding has been restored to pre-recession levels, and the Legislature adopted the Local Control Funding Formula, based on a paper that Liu co-wrote as a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, which provides extra money for low - income students and English learners.

They would also like to see the decision - making power on the provision of schools, including free schools, restored to local authorities, along with the power to open council - controlled community schools.

The question isn't whether New Orleans is ready to restore oversight of our schools to local control.

As for the Local Control Funding Formula, Thurmond said it only guarantees that funding levels should be restored to the pre-recession level of 2008, which is not sufficient.

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.

The letter was sent yesterday before the subcommittee's hearing on «Next Steps for K - 12 Education: Implementing the Promise to Restore State and Local Control.»

NSBA looks forward to working with Congress and the administration to restore state and local control of public education, as well as ensure equity and excellence in schools across the country.

He says, «If humans truly want to help the environment, help wildlife, and improve local climate, [then] restoring watersheds and natural stream flow will provide far greater benefits than trying to control CO2 levels».