Sentences with phrase «schools by local citizens»

• Recognize contributions to the schools by local citizens.

Not exact matches

ROSELLE — The issue of a swimming pool for Lake Park High School was brought to the Roselle Park District board Wednesday night as local citizens, led by Barb Layer, sought to determine if there was any Park District interest in seeing that one be built.

«Since Thursday, none of the insider chatter has increased the number available jobs for his constituents, eased local parents» anxiety over the upcoming school year, or dealt with our senior citizens» fright over the proposed closing of senior centers throughout our community,» Johnson said in a statement distributed by her campaign.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

The romantic notion that local school boards are elected by local citizens has been replaced with the reality that these elections are essentially rigged.

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

We also consider whether the relationship between school performance and citizen ratings is stronger for parents of school - age children, who are arguably the most connected to their local schools, or for homeowners, whose property values are influenced by school quality.

That the publicized school grades have a direct effect on respondent ratings over and above the relationship between ratings and the underlying point variables suggests that the signals provided by the state's school accountability system do in fact affect citizen perceptions of their local schools.

Our results indicate that citizens» perceptions of the quality of their local schools do in fact reflect the schools» performance as measured by student proficiency rates in core academic subjects.

«Charter Expansion» -(Oppose) Failed HB 7083 Charter Expansion — Enormous public push - back sealed the fate of this bill that robbed citizens of their right to local control by stripping school boards of their right to:

Among its basic goals, DSBA is dedicated to advancing the quality of Delaware's public schools, promoting efficient and effective administration of those schools and strengthening the tradition of local citizen control through the establishment of education policy by elected and appointed school board members directly accountable to the communities they serve.

It is ironic, to say the least, that Malloy and Pryor would begin the education reform effort by stomping on Connecticut's historic dedication to ensuring local citizens run local schools.

The only difference is that a charter is managed by a board of citizens, as opposed to a local school board.

Doesn't allow for local governments or local citizens to evaluate the impacts on their communities caused by charter schools on issues such as traffic capacity and consistency with approved uses already in place.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

An important part of Justice Stevens» legacy will be his recognition that the Constitution permits, and in many circumstances demands, protection of efforts — whether by Congress or a local school district — to promote inclusion of all citizens in every facet of our nation's political, social, and cultural life.