Sentences with phrase «schools under state control»

Despite state laws mandating such programs in all elementary schools under state control, dating back decades, they are rarely if ever provided.

When Louisiana and Tennessee wanted to focus on their lowest - performing schools, they created statewide turnaround districts, which pull individual schools under state control.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

The 2005 legislation that designated New Orleans a district in crisis and placed more of its failing schools under state control gave the RSD five years to achieve recovery.

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If you put schools under state control, well, I'm sorry, with all due respect to Albany, I believe we know a lot more about what we need to do for our children than bureaucrats in Albany do.

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He therefore proposed a constitutional amendment in late 1875 that would have rewritten the First Amendment — applying it to the states, and adding that «no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools... shall ever be under the control of any religious sect.»

In a closed society, typified by communist and fascist countries and by states in which the agencies of government are in the hands of absolutist ecclesiastical authorities, the preservation of the social order requires that the schools be under political control, in order that the official dogmas may be taught and the will of the controlling parties may be implanted in the minds of the young.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

With the current superintendent stepping down at the end of the month, whoever takes over will have unprecedented control over five city schools under a receivership model approved as part of this year's state budget.

The state in 2002 handed control of the city schools to then - Mayor Mike Bloomberg under a law that briefly expired in 2009 before being renewed for another six years.

The point in all this, about which I am sure we agree, is that if Labour was serious about a one - nation education system it would be discussing these different legal routes to bringing all state funded schools under democratic control.

«And now as a New York State Senator, I continue to address the needs of my schools and my students under a system of mayoral control.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office says a moratorium on Internet sales of ammunition won't be lifted under a deal with state Senate Republicans that modifies gun control laws enacted after the 2012 Connecticut school massacre.

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Had this movie been a Hollywood affair, I'm fairly certain it would have made fun of Texas; but under the control of Texas - based writer / director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) it shows the state and the people from it in the best possible light and manages to tell a story that you'll be sharing with your friends for years to come.

Could this act of generosity be the key to pull this school district, which had long been under state control, out of distress?

Narrowing the scope of the Chance - for - Success Index to factors both causally related to school achievement and under the control of state education officials or school districts would improve its value and deliver the right signals to states.

The court said that charter schools are not «common» schools under the state's Constitution because they are controlled by a charter board rather than by local voters.

But while voucher programs, for example, have overcome legal prohibitions in some states, political resistance to the flow of substantial public funds to schools not under the control of districts remains intense.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

According to Kate Zernike of the New York Times, Anderson «had feuded openly with the city's populist new mayor, Ras J. Baraka, a former high school principal who was elected last year on a promise to return Newark — and its schools, which have been under state control for 20 years — to Newarkers.»

Louisiana has decided that all New Orleans charter schools now overseen by the state's Recovery School District will be placed under the control of the local school School District will be placed under the control of the local school school board.

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Anthony S. Amato resigned as superintendent on Oct. 28, citing the fact that the city's schools were reverting to local control after five years under state management.

«Without the state help we've had to date, we'd either be-or we'd be that close to being - a distressed school district [and under state control],» says Paul Roedel, a retired steel company CEO who is chairing the Empowerment Team, which has the task of formulating a five - year financial plan for the district.

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.

Mississippi appears poised to take over the financially strapped North Panola school system in Sardis under a so - far - untested law passed in 1991 that allows the state to assume control of troubled districts.

The expectation that schools can achieve complete proficiency under conditions that are by no means under the state's control is unrealistic.

As a general rule, however, the less centralized Protestant denominations lacked formal doctrines mandating that schooling be under their exclusive control and were more willing to pursue their educational goals within the framework created by state - run systems.

While Speaker of the House in 1875, James G. Blaine introduced a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited any state from providing money to schools «under the control of any religious sect.»

The amendments are named after the 19th - century presidential aspirant James G. Blaine, who, while Speaker of the House in 1875, introduced a constitutional amendment that would have explicitly prohibited any state from providing money to schools «under the control of any religious sect.»

Specifically, section 9506 of the ESEA states that nothing in the law shall be construed to (a) «affect any private school that does not receive funds or services under» ESEA; (b) «affect a home school»; or (c) «permit, allow, encourage, or authorize any Federal control over any aspect of any private, religious, or home school.»

But since Newark's school system has been under state control since 1995, Baraka's entrée presents more questions than answers.

It's been more than a decade since most New Orleans public schools were put under state control after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaks.

And, experts say, recognizing that accepted «norms» — among them, a strong federal involvement in American schools, such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core — were anything but normal, in a system that for the majority of its history has been under state and local control.

Under the law, parents in Nevada can take control of 90 percent of the state funds allocated to their child (just over $ 5,000 per pupil) and spend it on private school tuition, online learning, special ed services, tutors, and more.

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Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority Sschools, plus more money to the district under the state's Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district's special treatment for Priority SchoolsSchools.

The other model — putting the school under the CommPACT schools initiative controlled by the Nutmeg State's NEA and AFT affiliates — would kibosh Parent Power by eliminating the school governance council already in place; it would be no better than being under the Commissioner's Network.

The Newark school district, long under control of the state of New Jersey, faces challenges driven in part by strong parent demand for high - performing schools and the rapid growth of a high - performing charter sector: The sector currently serves 27 percent of Newark's students and is anticipated to serve 40 percent by 2018 — 19.

Have we come full circle after fifty years of federal involvement in the schools — from local and state control before ESEA back to local and state control under ESSA?

Yet, most major problems facing the schools identified by the public are under the control of states and school districts and so could be solved by them.

School accountability legislation that placed failing schools under the control of a separate, state - level governing entity, the Recovery School District;

Except in the case of excessive force or cruel and unusual punishment, a teacher or other member of the instructional staff, a principal or the principal's designated representative, or a bus driver shall not be civilly or criminally liable for any action carried out in conformity with State Board of Education and district school board rules regarding the control, discipline, suspension, and expulsion of students, including, but not limited to, any exercise of authority under s. 1003.32 or s. 1006.09.

Under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the state equalized funding for charter schools and school districts.

But as long as Americans hold to the conviction that most of what happens in schools should be kept under the control of states and local communities, the quality of the curriculum is out of his hands.

1National Center for Children in Poverty 2Eric Stirgus, Georgia Schools that Could Fall Under State Control, Atl.

The Okolona Separate School District, about 20 miles south of Tupelo, was under state control from 2010 - 12 after years of low test scores and numerous accreditation violations.