Sentences with phrase «schools control hiring»

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The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

Instead of hiring a superintendent, Lavine said she will seek mayoral control of the school district.

They cited the Republican candidate's plans to hire additional police officers and institute mayoral control over the Syracuse City School District as reasons for the endorsement.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

A civil rights consultant hired by the Buffalo School District to review admissions policies at criteria - based schools, is accusing Board Member Carl Paladino of making «a clear effort to control my work and intimidate me.»

His lengthy question included an exhortation to see an increase in jailing people engaged in the «scourge» of drug use, whether Malliotakis favors mayoral control of schools and who she would hire to run the school system.

Of course, Bloomberg had his legislative victories, including a reduction in pension benefits for newly hired workers, the legalization of same - sex marriage and reauthorization of mayoral school control.

Desiring mayoral involvement was fine, but if one mandates it in state law, what happens when you get a mayor of questionable competence, or who is aligned with public education's entrenched status quo, or who decides to influence or control a school's hiring practices, or who simply doesn't want to be involved?

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

Though the Orleans Parish School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial officers.

Darryl Kilbert, the superintendent hired by OPSB to manage its small portfolio of schools, portrays the current transitional arrangement as an erosion of democracy itself and espouses restoration of «community control.»

South Carolina has hired Edison Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County school system, a poor rural district entering its fifth school year under state control.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

Information technology can also give school - site personnel unprecedented control over budgets and hiring and can increase their flexibility regarding resource allocation.

«It is important as a school leader to have the ability to control how money is spent, and to hire and fire,» he said.

But, states and school districts determine that quality since they control teacher certification, hiring, and other teacher - related practices.

Charter schools are independent public schools that control their own budgets, design their own criteria and make their own hiring decisions.

Following a charter school model, principals in the state - run New Orleans schools will have the independence to recruit and hire their own teachers and academic support staff, and control the use of federal Title I grant money, beginning next school year.

Following the lead of school districts in New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, Recovery District superintendent Paul Vallas aims to give principals authority to hire their staff, as well as control over their budgets, according to The Times - Picayune.

Charter schools control their own budgets and hiring and firing and are also usually exempt from some regulations governing public schools.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

In Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee County executive will have authority to appoint a commissioner who can take control of up to three of the lowest performing schools in the first year, up to five in subsequent years, and hire a private company to run these sSchools, the Milwaukee County executive will have authority to appoint a commissioner who can take control of up to three of the lowest performing schools in the first year, up to five in subsequent years, and hire a private company to run these sschools in the first year, up to five in subsequent years, and hire a private company to run these schoolsschools.

Principals have had control over staffing at their schools since 2005, when the district officially adopted «mutual consent» hiring.

The legislation also calls for the pest management plan to be made available to parents of pupils enrolled at the school or day care center, and mandates that staff and professional pest control applicators hired to apply pesticides on school sites undergo annual training on integrated pest management and safe pesticide use.

Their primary goal was to get direct parental control over choosing a principal, and change teacher contracts so the principal would have full control over hiring and firing all employees, school spending and curriculum.

The Houston Chronicle reports that district leaders also proposed handing over control of hiring, curriculum and governance of eight other schools to two nonprofit organizations.

In particular, according to the report, principals, teachers and parents cited as positives greater control over how and when they hire, the ability to opt out of direct teacher placements by the district and the use of one - year contracts to ensure new hires are a good fit with the school's mission.

The strongest effects on outcomes seem to be where schools have substantial control over two key areas — budgeting and hiring.

Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority.

June Jordan, under some special regulations that SFUSD adopted when small schools were the miracle fad du jour a few years ago, is exempt from many teacher hiring rules, so that the administrators have far more control over who teaches there than at other high schools.

Then we became a model for what NOT to do in school reform when the mayor took control of the schools in 1995, hiring a non-educator as CEO of the schools.

The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»

Public schools in Colorado that have greater control over hiring teachers, setting the school calendar and budgeting show slightly higher levels of student academic growth and high levels of teacher empowerment, according to a CU Denver report...

Doug Thomas, Walter Enloe, and Ron Newell explore the Minnesota New Country School, where teachers have control of the learning program, the hiring and retention of personnel, and are responsible for the success of the sSchool, where teachers have control of the learning program, the hiring and retention of personnel, and are responsible for the success of the schoolschool.

Because charter schools are free from district control and often from teacher unions, they have the power to hire and fire, choose the curriculum, and set student rules.

Baltimore's mayor once had more control of the city school system and sometimes played a role in hiring the superintendent.

The fight over who controls — and can hire and fire — board employees is central to the issue of whether the schools chief can effectively veto board decisions.

Have you ever heard of a school where teachers have control of the learning program, the hiring and retention of personnel, and are responsible for the success of the school?

This gives K12 Inc. tremendous control over almost every aspect of their schools including curriculum, hiring of teachers and principals, and evaluating student performance.

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular religion if such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed by a particular religion or by a particular religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational institution or institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular religion.

Law schools may not be able to control what professors write, but they certainly could choose to hire professors with interests that engage squarely with matters of central importance to the fair and effective administration of justice in Canada.

While a high school diploma or a GED is usually the only requirement to work as a document control clerk, some employers prefer that the people they hire possess some prior experience.

Most employers will hire you if you have a high school diploma and some experience with wiring and electronic control systems.

He or she is usually hired by a district's school board and is responsible for general management duties which may include hiring appropriate staff for different schools under his or her control.