Sentences with phrase «state charter revision»

In any event, time for state charter revision is running short.

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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.

De Blasio announced plans to empanel a charter revision commission in his State of the City address last month.

The Assembly has proposed revisions to the enrollment and retention policy that many traditional district schools themselves have not been able to meet and includes penalties that would likely result in the closure of charter schools across the state.

Therefore, although the state put forth a new vision in its regulations, the 2005 policy and its subsequent revisions leave significant space for district and charter schools to define what competency - based education means for their students.

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

The defeat of Mayor Finch's charter revision proposal that would have done away with an elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by himself will have significant repercussions within Bridgeport and across the State of Connecticut.

In addition, more than 40 percent of schools face restrictions from state laws in the areas of charter contract revisions (the inability to make changes outside of renewal) and staff compensation (including requiring schools to participate in the state retirement systems).

School flexibility: A Miami - Dade County lawyer who sits on the state Constitution Revision Commission is proposing that high - performing traditional public school districts get the same exemptions from state statutes that charter schools are given.

This is a bipartisan - backed bill that passed last month despite withering criticism from some public school advocates and the nonpartisan National Association of Charter School Authorizers, which warned legislators that its revision would hamper the state's ability to produce high - quality, accountable charters.

[18] warned legislators that its revision would hamper the state's ability to produce high - quality, accountable charters: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2016/06/22/national-charter-group-blasts-bill-limiting-state-oversight-of-struggling-charter-schools/

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In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education moved Public Education Online forward by giving preliminary approval to a rule governing the program that reimburses online education providers for up to two classes per year per student; provided guidance to school districts and charter schools in evaluating educators for classroom performance; and announced that the U.S. Department of Education has given approval to revisions in Utah's No Child Left Behind plan.

That's because, under state law today, enrollment growth of more than 20 percent would be considered a «material revision» of a school's charter, meaning they must seek permission from the State Board of Educastate law today, enrollment growth of more than 20 percent would be considered a «material revision» of a school's charter, meaning they must seek permission from the State Board of EducaState Board of Education.