Sentences with phrase «school sign a petition»

In just two days, more than 1,100 parents representing 21 CPS schools signed a petition opposing the initiative.

In areas where grammar schools were the norm, the 1998 regulations made under the Act provided for ballots to be triggered by 20 per cent of parents at all schools signing a petition, while in areas where grammar schools were less common, only parents of children at «feeder schools» would be allowed to vote.

It's a simple, powerful idea: if a majority of parents in a failing school sign a petition, the district must implement the parents» preferred turnaround model.

The way the law works is that if 51 % of parents at a failing school sign a petition, they can turn the school into a charter school, replace the staff or simply use the petition as a bargaining chip to initiate a conversation about change.

Under the California law, if 51 % of parents in a failing school sign a petition, they can trigger a forcible transformation of the school — either by inviting a charter operator to take over, by forcing certain administrative changes or by shutting it down outright.

Under I - 1240, conversion charters could happen in Washington, if a majority of teachers or parents at an existing public school sign a petition to initiate an application for charter status.

Under the law, if over half of the parents at a low - performing school sign a petition, the school district must implement the policy parents choose to improve the school.

If a majority of parents at a school sign a petition, they can close that school, shake up its staff, or convert it to a charter.

stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Under the law, if a majority of parents with children at a failing public school sign a petition, they can «trigger» a change in the school's governance, forcing the school district to adopt one of a handful of reforms: getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down, or turning it into a charter school.

The law stipulates that if 50 percent +1 of the parents of children in a failing school sign a petition, it can «trigger» a change in the governance of that school either by getting rid of some teachers, firing the principal, shutting the school down or turning it into a charter school.

Not exact matches

The letter comes after more than 9,500 people signed an online petition started by Shannon Fest, the mother of a 15 - year - old Douglas High student who struggles to make it through a full day of school.

But Niebuhr said nothing about lynching, little about segregation, and once turned down King's request to sign a petition calling on the president to protect black children integrating Southern schools, Cone said.

Joe Bradshaw, one of Bull Cyclone's former players, distributed petitions in his support that were signed by every high school coach in the Scooba district.

If you like the idea of food education in ALL schools, I urge you to sign this petition to show your support.

I spoke this morning with Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's office and was pleased to learn that she has now submitted her sign - on letter to USDA with the signatures of 41 Congressional representatives, all of whom support the request expressed in our Change.org petition that USDA ban all use of Lean Beef Trimmings, aka «pink slime» in ground beef destined for the National School Lunch Program.

And, by the way, if you'd like to protest attempts to weaken the DGA, you can sign this petition from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and if you'd like to protest attempts to weaken school food standards, you can sign this one, also from CSPI.

So please sign this petition to voice your support for the HHFKA school meal nutrition standards.

Why not ask everyone who cares about this issue to sign this school food petition from the Pew Charitable Trusts, or to urge their Congressional representatives to adequately fund school meals in the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization?

«I don't think the dyes are good for anything,» said Dr. Alan Greene, a clinical professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine who signed the CSPI petition.

To show your support for preserving science - based school nutrition standards, please sign these petitions from Food Policy Action and the American Heart Association.

There's a petition open on their website for anyone to sign who is interested in seeing grease - filled school lunches become a thing of the past.

Watch this heartbreaking video, then sign our petition to fully and fairly fund Detroit schools.

By Saturday afternoon, more than 5,700 people had signed an online petition calling for his removal from the school board in a diverse district where the majority of students are black.

Will the 23,000 people who signed a petition to remove Carl Paladino show up to vote in the next school board election or is their interest only momentarily engaged when they're outraged about something?

The organization, in the petition signed by its senior staff attorney, Timothy Adewale, said, «The allegation that N500m has been lost to corruption has resulted in denying the girls access to education, and shows the failure of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government to live up to Nigeria's commitments under the global Safe School Declaration.»

Controversial New York City Schools chancellor Joel Klein has been mentioned as a possible secretary of Education in an Obama administration, which is why more than 1,000 locals have signed an online petition imploring Team Obama not to choose him.

Continuing their battle to stop the mayor from laying off teachers and cutting child care and after - school program funding, a group of parents and community members gathered at City Hall on June 16 to deliver a petition on seven 50 - foot scrolls signed by more than 20,000 New Yorkers telling Mayor Bloomberg and City Council members to invest in school improvement, not cut programs or personnel.

«If you also are outraged by a new chancellor without any experience in public education and who sent her own children to private school, here is an online petition you can sign and forward on,» wrote one parent on an education e-mail list.

The petition, which was posted on the Power of Ten's website and has been signed by over 4,000 people, was submitted to Legislator Ellen Jaffee, who will deliver it to Education Commissioner John King at the capitol building, a move made to raise awareness for issues in the troubled school district.

More than 20,000 people have signed three online petitions calling for Paladino's removal from the school board, the Buffalo News reported, since the Western New York real estate developer made his comments in response to an emailed survey from Artvoice magazine.

Cash's remarks came after a majority of Buffalo School Board members signed off on a second attempt to petition State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove Paladino from his position.

After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school has no choice but to call for an emergency parents» meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high - ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are hesitant to sign a petition to transfer her out.

A «Stop lowering the school age in Tasmania» petition organised by United Voice has so far been signed by 2,561 people.

These parents knocked on the doors of other parents living in the Compton school district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sschool district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sSchool to a charter schoolschool.

This spring, after faculty at Locke High School in Los Angeles signed petitions to convert into a Green Dot charter, district officials scrambled to put together a counterproposal and convinced some teachers to rescind their signatures.

They petitioned the city to paint signs discouraging dumping, began making presentations to other students and civic groups, and converted a holding pond at the school into a wetlands area.

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

In Massachusetts in 2004, where district hostility to charter schools got so bad that state education officials had to warn superintendents to moderate their anti-charter politicking, one district student reported being pressured to sign a petition opposing charter schools.

It will hand over petitions signed by over 10,000 parents calling for rural schools to be saved and the unpopular proposals to be scrapped.

Sign our petition today and demand that schools have the funding needed to keep teachers in the classroom, support staff in our schools and provide the quality education that our students deserve.

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

providing the parent or guardian or unaccompanied youth with a signed and dated acknowledgment verifying that the local educational agency liaison has received the form petition and supporting documents and will either accept service of these documents on behalf of the school district employee or officer or school district or effect service by mail by mailing the form petition and supporting documents to any school district employee or officer named as a party and, if the school district is named as a party, to a person in the office of superintendent who has been designated by the board of education to accept service on behalf of the school district;

At least half of the parents with students in a school must sign the petition.

Why should a public school built with taxpayer funds be given to a private corporation just because 51 % of current users signed a petition?

Ask other parents to join you in signing a petition to close down these schools and restart them using the Parent Trigger Law!

Over 30,000 people have signed a petition calling on the U.S. Department of Education to open a civil rights investigation into Success Academy Charter Schools, which have received $ 37 million in federal funds since 2010.

[vi] The Los Angeles Weekly live blogging, Dec. 14, 2010: «We're reporting live from the [Compton Unified School District] board meeting, packed with press and hundreds of angry parents — many of whom say they were tricked into signing the Parent Trigger petition without understanding its gravity.

More than 40,000 parents have signed a petition calling for a boycott of primary school tests, which are due to be taken later this month.

Ask other parents to join you in signing a petition to close down these schools and restart them using the