The city's main district is now
run by an elected school board after years of control by state - appointed emergency managers.
Not exact matches
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 justices voted, 6 to 3, that charter
schools — which are publicly funded but privately
run — are not «common
schools» because their governing
boards are not
elected but are appointed
by the founders of the individual
schools.
Yes, a vast majority of
school districts in the country are
run by elected boards.
While nearly all
school districts are
run by school boards whose members are
elected by voters, Yonkers»
board members are appointed
by the mayor.
Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S.
schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous
school districts, nearly all of them
run by locally
elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied
by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed
by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.
Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation,
run by the democratically
elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community
schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»
The League position is clear; we support free, high quality public
schools for all children, and these
schools are
run by locally
elected school boards.
They are
run by independent
boards instead of
elected local
school boards and answer to an authorizer that oversees their charter agreement.
Elected school board have to do things in a public way and this is not the way it is with the RSD or local
schools being
run by remote control from the state or
by unelected charter
boards.
Unlike traditional public
schools, charter
schools aren't
run by elected boards of education.
Prior to the 2002 legislation that placed Michael Bloomberg in near complete control of the city
schools, New York City
schools were
run by the central
Board of Education whose members were appointed
by the mayor and
by the five borough presidents and
by elected school boards in each of the city's 32 community districts — which had much greater power before a 1996 law demoted their role.
(10) No person shall
run as a candidate for more than one seat on a district
school board or
school authority and any person who does so and is
elected to hold one or more seats on the district
school board or the
school authority is not entitled to act as a member of the district
school board or the
school authority
by reason of the election.