Sentences with phrase «school governance structure»

You wouldn't think that Louis R. Maldonado, the president of Community School Board 12 in the South Bronx, would have much nice to say about New York City's new school governance structure.

The changes proposed by the UFT committee, he said, would bring New York City's school governance structure into line with more measured systems of mayoral control that exist in similarly large cities like Boston and Washington, D.C.

Call on the NY State legislature to pass a Peoples Board of Education bill before June 2015 when Mayoral Control is scheduled to either be reinstated or replaced by some other school governance structure.

To that list, we must add two critical factors that matter a lot: creating more responsive school governance structures; and expanding teachers» capacity to have more professional discretion over their own practice.

42 states and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation permitting charter schools, which operate outside the traditional school governance structure and exercise a high level of autonomy in exchange for more stringent accountability.

Facilitate charter school governance structures that can efficiently and effectively operate multiple schools or campuses and fulfill public accountability functions.

Often, when decentralized governance of this sort is used in schools, one of its central aims is to increase the voice of those who are not heard, or at least not much listened to, in the context of typical school governance structures.

Provides that the petition shall request that the school board fully intervene in the school and implement one of the following reform measures: (1) reopen the school as a charter school; (2) change the school leadership; (3) close the school and reassign students currently attending the school to another school at the appropriate grade level within the same school district; or (4) adopt a new school governance structure.

Equally notable is the wide variation in school performance within the sector, a reminder that school governance structures are important but what is happening in classrooms (and how that performance is supported) is even more important.