Sentences with phrase «school board control in»

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

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Even where, as in Charlotte, they and their liberal allies control the school board, they have pushed the counterintuitive argument that courts should force the boards to continue busing on the grounds that they have not complied with the original desegregation decrees and need continued court supervision.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Code 3313.717 allows the board of education of each school district and the administrative authority of each chartered nonpublic school to require the placement of an AED in each school under the control of the board or authority.
Interscholastic Athletics: Statute 13 -36-4 (2003) gives the school board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool board power to delegate the control, supervision, and regulation of any high school interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool interscholastic activities to any voluntary, non-profit association Statute 13 -36-7 (2003) deems any student enrolled in a public school district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities Associschool district eligible to participate in any interscholastic activity sponsored by the SD High School Activities AssociSchool Activities Association.
If a board or authority requires the placement of an automated external defibrillator as provided in this section, the it also shall require that a sufficient number of the staff persons assigned to each school under the control of the board or authority complete an appropriate training course in the use of the AED as described.
When de Blasio lost his hold on education policy in June, he warned that corruption and chaos would return if the school system reverted back to the control of its educational board.
Mayor Bill de Blasio dug in his heels on charter schools Monday, as the fierce debate threatened to cost him control of the city's school system and bring back the bad old days of the Board of Ed.
Regarding mayoral control of the school system, Mr. Lander accepts direct appointment of the Chancellor by the mayor but thinks that education policy should be vetted by a separate board that is not controlled by mayoral appointees, in order to levy checks on the system.
He said standards that are developed in New York would «go back to our roots... and back to local control in the classroom and local school boards
Mayoral control was introduced in 2002 to replace the older system of a Board of Education dominated by borough president appointees and local elected school boards which were, in some cases, corrupt.
They are joined by nonprofit leaders who have scrutinized DOE practices for years, including under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who first won mayoral control of city schools in 2002, ending the old Board of Education system.
But most humiliating, he was granted mayoral control of the city's school system for a mere year — meaning he's going to have to beg Albany yet again to let him stay in charge of city schools, even though no rational person really believes New York City would be better off with the old Board of Education.
Cuomo also expressed skepticism that the state legislature will renew Mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools, raising the possibility that a decentralized board of education could re-emerge in running the school system.
Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.
But that's exactly what is happening in this year's School Board races, with different factions warring for control.
With control of the Buffalo School Board at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for gBoard at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for gboard will be up for grabs.
De Blasio's aides on Monday warned of chaos in the school system if the mayoral control law is allowed to expire and the city goes back to the old Board of Education system where the mayor appoints two members and the five borough presidents one each.
Despite factors that should drive up interest — control of the board being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voboard being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voBoard races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.
The Brong - Ahafo Regional Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Kofi Boateng, has expressed worry over the practice where drugs are being sold in classrooms of some basic schools in the Sunyani West District.
Former Mayor Bloomberg wrestled control of the schools from the old Board of Education in 2002, and the law was extended — and amended — in 2009.
For the JSCB's second phase, which will involve roughly $ 300 million in school renovations, state legislators changed the mandated composition of the board to give Miner and Contreras control over its composition.
Before the Legislature gave the mayor control over the schools in 2002, they were governed by a Board of Education and 32 elected community school boards.
When mayoral control lapsed in 2009, a reconstituted Board of Education voted to keep Joel Klein as chancellor and let him and then - Mayor Mike Bloomberg run the schools until the legislature restored things to normal.
Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.
«And that an audit of the Buffalo Board of Education and the (Joint School Construction Board) needs to be scheduled and a control board needs to be put in place to rectify the situation that they've caused.&rBoard of Education and the (Joint School Construction Board) needs to be scheduled and a control board needs to be put in place to rectify the situation that they've caused.&rBoard) needs to be scheduled and a control board needs to be put in place to rectify the situation that they've caused.&rboard needs to be put in place to rectify the situation that they've caused.»
In a system redesign, the mayor should be given say in Buffalo Schools by board appointment or mayoral control of some sorIn a system redesign, the mayor should be given say in Buffalo Schools by board appointment or mayoral control of some sorin Buffalo Schools by board appointment or mayoral control of some sort.
The labor organization's involvement underscores an unusually heightened level of interest in this year's School Board races, in which everyone from the county executive to community activist groups is jockeying to upset control of the board from the current majoBoard races, in which everyone from the county executive to community activist groups is jockeying to upset control of the board from the current majoboard from the current majority.
Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the board.The continued challenges to petitions of would - be candidates underscore the dramatic politics that make this an unusually tense election, drawing interest from political, labor and business factions not typical...
Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the bBoard majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the boardboard.
The school board election - in which the union invested significant resources - resulted in an upset of control on the board and an ideological shift among its members.
Any doubt of a significant power shift on the Buffalo School Board disappeared with Friday's appointment of the group's new leadership.Barbara Seals Nevergold will serve as president, a role she held before the outgoing majority took control in 2014.
In Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, mayoral control could include a system where mayors appoint school board members or superintendents or both.
Before mayoral control in the city, the school board was made up of seven members, two of whom were appointed by the mayor and the rest by the borough presidents.
Spano, a Democrat who campaigned for mayoral control last year and even convinced the Senate majority conference to include the change in its state budget proposal, said the issue isn't as urgent for him now because the city recently merged some of its administrative offices with the school board.
The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.
We supported the introduction of mayoral control in 2002 because no one took responsibility for our schools under the old system of locally elected school boards.
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Just make sure to check in with your MD first: «Because every woman is unique, it's difficult to make recommendations across the board, so consult with your doctor before changing the timing of your birth control,» says ob - gyn Mache Seibel, MD, a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School.
Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.
Some of these challenges were in our control, such as convincing parents, the school board and other stakeholders that the project was worthwhile.
«This law moves against the tradition of local control in a fundamental way,» said one midwestern school board member in the autumn of 2001.
That view is countered by the author's observation that local control is, in fact, far greater now that the city's seven - member school board has been augmented by a growing cohort of charter school board members numbering in the hundreds.
Last month, the Arkansas State Board of Education took control of the schools in Little Rock.
A columnist for the Sacramento Bee goes further, charging that such «a fuzzy, nonspecific «accountability» system completely undermines the ability of parents, especially in poor communities, to demand improvement in underperforming schools, including the creation of charter schools to seize control from school boards, superintendents and their union allies.»
But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.
Even with the financing and support of major reform foundations, the unions and their allies could hijack Portfolio Management in New Orleans, returning control to the local school board whose elections they dominate.
In 26 states (including 10 of the 12 states above), the initial decision by a local school board to deny a charter school application may be appealed to the state board of education or another institution, thus curbing school districts» control over the approval of charters even where school districts are given a role.
The board asserted that the statute gives the state board of education more powers than the Colorado state constitution permits and infringes on the state constitution's provision that the local school board «shall have control of instruction in the public schools of their respective districts.»
Third, and most interesting, there is diversity in the suppliers of K — 12 public education: the Orleans Parish School board oversees a number of traditional public schools and charters; the state board of education authorizes several charters; and the Recovery School District (an entity created before Katrina to assume control of failing city schools) manages both charters and traditional public schools.
The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.
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