Sentences with phrase «state charter law»

SA refused to sign the contract because it violates state charter law, which allows oversight only to a charter school's authorizer, which in this case is SUNY.

Wednesday's letter opens by noting that the school is in regular contact with the Louisiana Department of Education and the school board's own attorneys to ensure compliance with state charter law, then goes on to confront the admissions issue directly:

Fortunately, state charter law allows an appeal to the county board of education, which in both cases approved the petitions on 4 - 0 votes (with one board member absent).

Depending on your charter portfolio, your state charter law, and your charter term length, your ESSA transition may not be fully behind you until as late as the 2022 - 23 school year.

This aligns with our mission, our state charter law, and our «North Star» centered on students.

What these reveal is a state charter law that allows charter schools to operate loosely, with little if any accountability or transparency to the public.

The depth of that support from the left, however, has been slowly eroding and recent developments exposed cracks in that alliance even before the election: the NAACP resolution; the battle over the Massachusetts charter cap; the fight against the Washington State charter law, which was joined by local affiliates of NCLR, a group that nationally has been very supportive of charters.

The root causes of this debacle are a badly drafted (so - called «strong») state charter law that enables just about anyone who wants a charter to get one, and the absence of any community - wide mechanism to ensure that there is a at least one good school for every child.

The choice aspect of the paper is especially interesting — the district has been resourceful in its use of the state charter law.

Intended as a companion piece to the annual state charter law rankings released earlier this year, the new health rankings provide a comprehensive picture of how charter laws are working in practice.

Long since the first state charter law passed in 1991, a majority of adults still have little or no clue, a new poll suggests.

Buried deep in numerous state charter laws are promises to districts, often made during charter law negotiations, that they will be protected financially when they lose students to charters.

One in four state charter laws includes a desegregation clause, and some voucher programs, like Cleveland's, were begun to address what desegregation orders had not.

* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buildings

They also struggled with local community politics because state charter laws required them to contract with nonprofit governing boards rather than run schools directly.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

Indeed, the authors occasionally surprise readers, particularly with their recurring interest in the subtle institutional dynamics - from state charter laws to the nitty - gritty of making these human - scale organizations actually work over time - that mean life or death for fledgling charter schools.

Most state charter laws, for example, were products of across - the - aisle work.

State charter laws vary widely across the country — and eight states have no public charter schools at all.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Education began using state charter laws as a consideration in the awarding of the federal Race - to - the - Top competitive grant program.

But even if we eliminated the big bad hand of the federal government in education reform laws, state charter laws abound and ALEC is ready for the State to control education reform.

Last year's winner was the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools for «How State Charter Laws Rank Against The New Model Public Charter School Law».

The Coalition is a small nonprofit that promotes using state charter laws to achieve racially and socioeconomically integrated public schools.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

Eight require the local school district to transport at least some charter students; 13 require the state to provide funding for transportation equivalent to what traditional district schools receive.74 The remaining state charter laws are silent on transportation funding.

In fact, only 21 state charter laws address the issue of transportation funding.

Not exact matches

The commission contends the companies are violating a state law that says any nongovernment entity providing passenger transportation services must obtain a charter party carrier license.

Shareholders provide capital to a corporation in exchange for a bundle of rights defined by state law and the corporation's charter and bylaws.

They stated that the «brutal aggression» is a «clear violation of the international laws and the UN Charter», and was an «unjustified assault» on a sovereign country that is a member of the United Nations.

The zero tolerance policy requires that any priest who at any time sexually abused a minor will be removed from ministry and, subject to applicable provisions of canon law, dismissed from the priesthood (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People [2002] at Art. 5).

As a public charter school, we meet Arizona State Standards and testing requirements, and comply with health and safety regulations and educational laws applicable to Arizona Charter Scharter school, we meet Arizona State Standards and testing requirements, and comply with health and safety regulations and educational laws applicable to Arizona Charter SCharter Schools.

A new state law in California will hold private and charter schools to the same sports safety standards as public schools.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and by U.S. state laws.

The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime is protected, for instance, by equality legislation in the UK, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by U.S. state laws.

Talking to Politics.co.uk last week, Cash said the Tories» attempt to blame Labour was unfair because David Cameron's then - shadow Cabinet had failed to back his campaign to explicitly state the charter of fundamental rights would not apply to UK law at the time.

See for example the 2000 Declaration of the South Summit by the G77 composed of about 130 member States [«We reject the so - called «right» of humanitarian intervention, which has no legal basis in the United Nations Charter or in the general principles of international law».

Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.

This explicit grant of power would also prevent the sort of federal pre-emption that stopped Bush - era state AGs from enforcing even state laws against federally chartered banks.

Mount Vernon — Accusations of impropriety continue for Mayor Richard Thomas, who is already facing corruption charges as the Mount Vernon Board of Ethics has accused Mayor Richard Thomas of collecting more than $ 100,000 as a trustee of the Amani Public Charter School in violation of state education law.

He criticized the «chief law enforcement officer of the state» for not standing up for Mayor Bill de Blasio's plans to close charter schools, «for the corruption in Albany» and for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to close the Moreland Commission, an anti-corruption panel that was created by Cuomo in 2013.

There is a third way under state law to change a city charter, but it takes a big, well - organized campaign.

A Pataki spokesman, David Catalfamo, contended that the jet used for the December trip had been chartered «consistent with the state procurement law and guidelines.»

The charter law was enacted after the Democrat's predecessor, Republican Steve Levy, took his annual State of the County message on the road, incurring extra costs for staff and security.

Antonacci asked the law department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw department to address two main issues: The county charter appears to say that raises for county legislators should be voted on when the budget for that year is approved; and state Municipal Home Rule Law indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the LegislatuLaw indicates that salary changes made during the term of an elected official, such as the county executive, should take the form of a local law, not a resolution as passed by the Legislatulaw, not a resolution as passed by the Legislature.

Critiquing the state's arcane election laws, Stringer said instant runoffs are a «progressive leap» that would allow elections to be decided quickly and efficiently, and he said the mayor's Charter Revision Commission affords the city a prime opportunity to pursue the policy.

On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

«However, current law does not authorize charter schools to offer state supported pre-kindergarten programs, thereby preventing children from accessing potentially high - quality providers.»

Now that all charters have the right under state law to co-locate rent - free, the mayor's ability to help the charters he favors and manage the networks he doesn't is restricted, Cantor says.

New York City has just 28 slots left for new charters, a number that could easily drop to zero over the next year with the growth of local charters guaranteed under a state law passed earlier this year.

«These regulations significantly undercut the quality of teaching in SUNY authorized charter schools by permitting insufficiently prepared individuals to educate large numbers of high needs students beyond that which is already allowed for by law,» the lawsuit states.