Sentences with phrase «say over school policy»

Mayor Bill de Blasio flunked two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top education proposals that would weaken his say over school policy — including one that would allow the state to put failing city public schools into receivership.

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«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Sandra Fluke, the student who was at the center of a firestorm over contraception rules at her religious university, applauded the decision, saying in a statement, «I am very pleased that under these policies all women, regardless of what school they attend or where they work, will soon have affordable access to contraception.»

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.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

But the Conservatives said Ms Abbott had «floundered» when pressed over how the policy would be paid for and accused Labour of already pledging to spend the capital gains tax money on schools, welfare and the arts.

With the perceived confusion over funding for the government's free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said.

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

Massey said there are 163,000 students on charter - school waiting lists and criticized de Blasio for pushing policies that favor the unionized workforce over kids.

The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «While the NUT has had a number of policy differences with the Conservatives, particularly over «free schools», Michael Gove has always been open to discussion with the union about his plans.

The former headmaster of La PRESEC Senior High School, Samuel Salamat, says he feels hurt about the treatment meted out to him by the Ghana Education Service (GES), over fallout from the implementation of the Free SHS policy at the sSchool, Samuel Salamat, says he feels hurt about the treatment meted out to him by the Ghana Education Service (GES), over fallout from the implementation of the Free SHS policy at the schoolschool.

Louise Ivers, MD, senior health and policy adviser for Partners In Health and associate professor of global health and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succeeded.

«If all the coal - burning power plants that are scheduled to be built over the next 25 years are built, the lifetime carbon dioxide emissions from those power plants will equal all the emissions from coal burning in all of human history to date,» says John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

And whether to eat one over the other isn't an obvious choice, because each has advantages and disadvantages, said Alice Lichtenstein, a professor at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Ms O'Connell said policy makers should think about how to support successful transitions from school that prioritise individual strengths, capabilities, interests and career opportunities over «spending» of an ATAR.

According to a 2008 national survey conducted by Education Next and the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Education Policy and Governance, more than two thirds of American parents say they would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the IntSchool Program on Education Policy and Governance, more than two thirds of American parents say they would be willing to have their children take some of their high school courses over the Intschool courses over the Internet.

Looking at school uniform policies, there's a middle ground where schools do allow normal clothing, but maintain restrictions over, say, certain brand labels or styles of dress; BYOD could achieve a similar balance between opening the door to more diverse devices and limiting certain features to prevent them from setting some students apart from their peers.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

While 83 per cent those responding to the survey said their school had a social media policy in place, over two - thirds (68 per cent) said these contained no reference to supporting their own staff should they become victims of online abuse

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

Professor Liz Todd, professor of education inclusion of Newcastle University, said that the figures raised questions over the new policy for expanding selection and suggested opening new grammar schools would lead to an expansion of the private tuition market.

«Unless a school has a specific policy in place to deal with these kinds of bias, bias incidents against these groups will only become exacerbated over time,» says Mariam Durrani, an anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Educschool has a specific policy in place to deal with these kinds of bias, bias incidents against these groups will only become exacerbated over time,» says Mariam Durrani, an anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of EducSchool of Education.

«To help small schools with the transition to universal infant free school meals, we paid them an extra # 32.5 m over two years — over and above the # 600m we have spent on the policy as a whole so far,» they said.

I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk over the past 15 years.

«A lot of the policies of the department have just been stepping over the authority of a locally - elected school board to make decisions that are in the best interest of their community and students,» said Erika Hoffman, legislative advocate for the California School Boards Associschool board to make decisions that are in the best interest of their community and students,» said Erika Hoffman, legislative advocate for the California School Boards AssociSchool Boards Association.

Mr Clegg is quoted as having said: «It would be a good thing if the Liberal Democrats were able to run education policy on our own terms, not least because we are the only party that is prepared to give the schools, colleges and nurseries the means that they need to absorb 400,000 new youngsters over the next five years.»

John Fensterwald, EdSource California teachers, more than peers in other states, feel empowered to voice their opinions and say they have influence over decisions and policies in their schools.

Jules White, a West Sussex head teacher who co-ordinated letters sent to 2.5 million parents over school funding concerns, says too often schools policy has been sidetracked by «dubious ideological pursuits» or «tinkering around the edges».

In the wake of public outcry over spending controls at the California School Boards Association, an independent review said the organization adhered to a culture of quiet» regarding policies, rules, and regulations that made staff reluctant to voice their concerns internally.

Report author Anne Pinney says she is concerned about moves to extend school freedoms, which include giving those schools control over their admissions policies.

And Cynthia Ramirez expects to have more say in the discipline policy and curriculum now at her fourth - grade son's school, Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in the desert town of Adelanto, now that it has been taken over by a small nonprofit charter operator.

«The frustration of the court matches the policy movements across the states and across the federal government over the same time,» said Eric A. Hanushek, a fellow in education at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, who testified for the State of Connecticut in defending what it spends on schools.

Journalist Toby Young, who helped set up a free school in west London, said Mr Hunt had been «less than candid» about Labour's policy as it was considering granting councils the power of veto over free schools in their boroughs.

When hit with a class - action lawsuit over its discipline policies, Marcovitz said he and his team saw it as yet another moment to adjust their model, which now features «schools within schools» to address the needs of students with behavior issues, for example, with services like garden and music therapy.

Says WILL's Education Policy Director, Will Flanders, Ph.D., author of the study, «The debate over school choice is almost always focused on the so - called costs.

Yet, there is a perception that the federal government has «taken over» public schools due to the implementation of new teacher evaluation models, Common Core standards and new methods of testing, said Max Marchitello, policy analyst for pre-K-12 education policy at the Center for American Progress.

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

Over the course of two dozen interviews with a variety of education leaders, most agreed that the city's schools - while far from universally safe - are safer than they were a decade ago, but also say that the city isn't yet properly equipping schools to transform discipline policies.

over one - third said that their school did not have a written policy setting out how pay progression works; and

over one - third thought that their school's policy on pay progression was unfair, rising to over half of those who said their school did not have a written policy.

Local school districts have no say in whether charter schools are created, where they are located, which children they educate or refuse to educate, nor do local boards of education have control over any other charter school policy or practice.

«People really need to pay attention to what's happening at the state level, because policy groups — like teacher unions — are having a direct influence over policies, such as how teachers are fired, or the number of hours their children are in school,» she says.

Julie Mead, a professor of educational leadership and policy analysis at UW - Madison, said the proposal would diminish local control over the creation of charter schools.

«There's been difficulties in implementing the Common Core over a whole host of existing educational policies for holding teachers, students and schools accountable,» said Carlson.

saying the policy had been in place for 30 years, dating back to a time when school districts across Mississippi came under close scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over desegregation.

He says that any path to justice will require talking about residential schools; the Sixties Scoop; contemporary child welfare policies executed by organizations like Child and Family Serivces; racial profiling by police and other ways in which Indigenous people are criminalized by the so - called justice system; the ongoing tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls; all of the forms of oppressive regulation of Indigenous peoples by the Indian Act over the last 150 years.