Sentences with phrase «school board control»

It's true there is broad agreement that mayoral control is a better governance system for the city's 1,800 schools than the previous system of local school board control.

A concept that has been in existence in the state since 1997, state charter schools operate independent of local school board control and some state rules.

The members of the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA), a voluntary nonpartisan organization of Virginia school boards, determined it was important to uphold the Virginia constitutional mandate of local school board control in light of this legislation.

For years, battles for school board control in high charter growth cities have revolved around unilateral opposition to charters or benign collaboration.

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

It is imperative that we openly debate the merits of having private corporations with unelected school boards control education (and its accompanying public tax dollars).

He has completely supported the Flanagan - Cuomo - Tisch - King agenda of charter schools, over-testing, anti-opt-out, undermining teacher rights, usurping local school board control, imposing an evaluation system uniformly rejected by school boards, parents, administrators and teachers, etc..

Shifting leadership and political wrangling, often driven by changes in school board control, have been a constant in the Hempstead school district.

Chronically failing schools are removed from local school board control and placed into the state - run RSD, where they get a fresh start.

Legal and practical issues related to local school board control and how school boards operate.

Just a week after a series of bills began circulating to limit local school board control of school referenda, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to pass about $ 700 million in public school funding.

Brown says the reason the legislation currently prohibits collective bargaining on these bonuses is to give the local administrators and school boards the control to reward teachers that perform well and receive additional education.

Is she saying that the three charter schools in Muscogee School District that are under local school board control are not accountable?

While the school board controls what happens inside the schools, there are certainly things the City can do to keep the areas around them looking great and showing the pride the City has in them.

The Madison district does have two in - district charter schools — Nuestro Mundo and Badger Rock — that receive some flexibility from rules but whose programs and teaching staffs remain fully under school board control.