Sentences with phrase «school board oversight»

Even some administrators were under the impression that everything was fine, that they were going to be able to transition back to Orleans Parish [School Board oversight], get a building and continue with business as usual.

Among the report's many other recommendations are the imposition of new requirements and standards to make charter operations more accountable and transparent and a restoration of local school board oversight.

KIPP New Orleans will transfer its Renaissance High from the Louisiana Recovery School District to Orleans Parish School Board oversight if they can negotiate a satisfactory contract, officials said.

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«Charter schools absent school board oversight have far less accountability for student achievement than traditional public schools,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA Executive Director.

Charter schools are publicly financed, but operate largely independently of local school board oversight and state regulations.

Since the disaster, individual charter schools that were meeting academic goals could decide to return to School Board oversight.

He has contacted the consortium to remove the state from the the testing combine, and he wants to block the Education Department, which White runs with state school board oversight, from buying the new tests.

Not exact matches

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

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Mr. Baker has a law degree from the University of Florida School of Law, and his experience as a lawyer and member of the board of a large public utility company also contribute important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the Bboard of a large public utility company also contribute important risk management and regulatory oversight skills to the BoardBoard.

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

Charters are public schools that boards of local citizens can apply to open and run under state oversight, and that any child can attend.

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 Board of Trustees is the governing body of the Marin Waldorf School that hold the legal and fiscal oversight.

The Cincinnati Waldorf School Board of Trustees is responsible for the financial health, safe operation and general oversight of the guidelines and regulations of the organization.

A brief bit of context: In the USA a «School board» is a body that gives oversight to typically one High school, and its feeder elementary scSchool board» is a body that gives oversight to typically one High school, and its feeder elementary scschool, and its feeder elementary schools.

Maya Wiley stepped down from her role as chairwoman of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's independent police oversight agency, to focus on her work at The New School, where she is a professor and senior vice president.

The mission of the Niskayuna Central School District Audit Committee is to provide independent advice, assistance, and and recommendations to the Board in the oversight of the internal and external audit functions of the district.

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.

Legislative leaders are nearing an agreement that would increase oversight over Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo schools and provide $ 5 million a year to restore programs, but it does not include veto power over the school board, according to Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

In that instance, however, little of substance changed: The school board, which had been faulted for its oversight of the system, was reconvened and met just once, for nine minutes.

In fact, in 2009, as the stalemate dragged on, several of the borough presidents pushed for the school board to act as more of a check on the mayor, in part by having oversight over contracts.

«If you've been hired because of your connection to a powerful person, you don't have to be working directly for that person to receive special treatment,» said Richard Briffault, a professor of legislation at Columbia Law School who chairs New York City's Conflicts of Interest Board, the city's independent ethics oversight panel.

If mayoral control is not renewed at all, de Blasio said oversight would revert back to the 32 school boards that controlled schools 15 years ago, a system Hizzoner described as rife with «chaos,» «corruption» and «patronage.»

But he will also appoint four of seven members of a new oversight body that will have the power to reject contracts and fire school - board employees who impede implementation of the reforms.

Our CRPE colleagues Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim have proposed a more radical solution: a new institution (a community board) that would oversee all public schools and get the school district out of the business of oversight (the district would become a school operator, much like a charter management organization).

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) retained oversight of two of the city's charter schools.

The state school board last month ended its oversight of the Logan County district, granting the local school board power to direct curriculum and personnel for the first time since 1992.

In New Orleans, leaders are on the verge of «returning» oversight of independently run charter schools from the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board.

Shifting oversight responsibility from one entity to another - say, from elected school boards to mayors - opens the possibility that things will be done differently.

Schools that receive the severe fail rating may experience more dramatic consequences: these can include changes in the school leadership team and the school's governing board, increased resources, as well as increased oversight from the inspectors.

The current wave of innovation in charter schools differs from earlier reforms by focusing on governance, with charter schools freeing educators from oversight by elec ted school boards.

First, there is far greater state oversight of school boards than of other local governments.

But the announcement troubled some school board members, who weren't told about it in advance and who were skeptical about the prospect of a speedy end to federal court oversight.

Parents, educators, and taxpayers surveyed by the Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee cited a range of guidelines, from reporting test scores and teacher qualifications to oversight by an independent board, they believe are necessary to oversee choice programs involving private schools.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

One superintendent will direct the network managers, strategy group, and services office and report to the school board, whose role will be oversight, not execution.

At CBP's «governance boot camp,» the discussion quickly moves to governance nuts and bolts: committee organization, budget oversight, school - leader evaluations, and a mock charter - school board meeting.

Second, in deciding policies, schools are accountable for democratic and public deliberations; even with recent revelations of corrupt practices among CEOs and boards of directors and meltdowns in the mortgage lending community, minimal public oversight of corporate governance currently exists.

Commenting on the report, Roy Perry, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils remain concerned that Regional Schools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of sSchools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schoolsschools.

The boards provide support to the regional schools commissioners in those areas as they work to provide effective oversight of local schools and advise the national schools commissioner, Sir David Carter and the government.

The stage has been set for an apparent showdown between charter school operators and the Los Angeles Unified School District office charged with charter school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board meschool operators and the Los Angeles Unified School District office charged with charter school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board meSchool District office charged with charter school oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board meschool oversight, when the LAUSD school board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board meschool board votes on an unprecedented 14 recommendations for charter petition denials at Tuesday's special board meeting.

Liberal education reformers also believe that the market alone is not enough to ensure charter school quality, and that charter schools need strong oversight boards, which can close down poor - performing charters.

About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in WashingtoSchool Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washingtoschool options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washingtoschool performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.

Rep. Larry E. Gabriel, the House majority leader, suggested at a meeting of a special oversight panel this month that the state school board should be restricted in writing...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.

Local governing boards provide oversight and accountability, partnering with Imagine Schools for comprehensive educational and operational expertise, support and programmatic variety.

After all the community based, democratic, transparent, non profit public schools are the foundation of our republic and democracy, a foundation supported by the oversight of community based elected school boards.