Sentences with phrase «state receivership»

But the option of state receivership of those schools if the city does not success is still within the budget, according to reports.

The Phoenix network was invited in to assist with turnaround efforts after the district was placed in state receivership in 2011.

The city also has the option of turning the school into a charter under state receivership law, but the administration is highly unlikely to choose that option considering de Blasio's intermittent feud with the local charter sector.

Mr. Cuomo wants schools deemed failing for three years to be eligible for state receivership, in which the state education department would appoint a turnaround expert, a nonprofit such as a charter school or another district to take over.

Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has a long history of financial problems, including plunging into state receivership in 2003 and, more recently, mid-year budget freezes and cuts.

As GO Oakland Teacher Policy Fellows, we chose to be involved in this campaign in order to improve the long - term financial health of OUSD, while avoiding state receivership in the near - term.

Mr. Cuomo had declared he would boost education funding by just over $ 1 billion only if the legislature agreed to adopt his reform plans — which included state receivership of failing schools, an increase in the charter cap, new teacher evaluations based on state exams, and changes to teacher tenure.

At Schuyler, I visited with the school's dynamic principal, John Murphy, who was hired to «turn around» Schuyler — which has been deemed a «struggling school» and is facing state receivership.

In particular, Rodriguez will be coordinating efforts in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where the school district was recently placed under state receivership due to years of underperformance.

This legislation gave those schools additional autonomies around collective bargaining, personnel assignment and scheduling, the length of the school day, funding, and other organizational and structural issues, and also created the possibility of state receivership if the schools did not dramatically improve their performance.

The union that represents classified workers said it hoped state receivership would mean a rollback of a 15 percent employee pay cut approved by board members days before the state takeover.

The Oakland Unified Board of Education has heard this message repeatedly from Oakland's institutional and community stakeholders ever since the district exited state receivership in 2009.

Our lawyers have represented virtually all constituencies having a stake in bankruptcy and state receivership cases, including the following:

Ascend and Learning Without Limits (full disclosure I sit on the board of both of these schools) were a community response to the lack of accountability from an unelected school board (these schools were converted from district schools after Oakland Unified School District was put into state receivership).

While avoiding state receivership is good for maintaining local control, it is highly concerning that mid-year cuts to school sites is becoming the standard way OUSD operates.

Elia has pledged to be laser - focused on struggling schools during the first year of her tenure, and almost immediately introduced the idea of state receivership for schools around the state that fail to improve over the next year or, in some cases, two years.

Mulgrew thanked the governor's Common Core task force for its work, but said that there still has to be changes to the 2015 state law, including state receivership.

99, took on a daunting challenge: figure out how to turn around the Lawrence Public Schools, the only school district in Massachusetts ever to be placed in state receivership.

Families for Excellent Schools, a Manhattan - based nonprofit and lobbying group, is calling for New York state leaders to place 178 failing public schools, including some in Syracuse, under state receivership this fall.

But Rumore tells WBFO News the district switched the times to save money and with Cash using his state receivership powers.

Today, he said he'd also made those thoughts known to new Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, and again argued that state receivership was unnecessary in a city with mayoral control over schools.

«When you have that level of accountability, I don't believe there's a need for a state receivership model because it's abundantly clear who's responsible and what tools we're going to put in place.»

Dr. Cash comes to the Buffalo Public Schools at a pivotal time, when 25 schools have been placed into State Receivership, and the District works to negotiate a new contract with the Buffalo Teachers Union.

The removal of 10 of the 25 Buffalo schools that made the state receivership list, giving the superintendent more power to try to turn them around, will suddenly be removed from that list list by June 30 because the state said they have shown progress in the last two years.

Struggling schools deemed to be «failing» will have a year to reverse their problems are face a state receivership administered by the Department of Education.

Nine years later, this arts - oriented high school is now facing the threat of state receivership.

A Buffalo Public School teacher is out with another hip - hop, rap video that blasts New York State for too many standardized tests, Common Core and state receivership.

He says the commission should also look at changing a new requirement that 144 struggling schools in danger of state receivership be judged by their students» test scores and whether or not they opt out of the tests.

He reiterated the union's support for alternatives to state receivership for struggling schools, such as transforming them into community schools as New York City is doing as part of its School Renewal Program.

Also uncertain is whether the new majority will embrace Cash's power under the state receivership law, which many of the candidates said they oppose.

The district's failure to provide high - quality education to any of its children, especially young black men, is one reason why 14 of its schools are now under state receivership (and 14 more may end up in that status).

State receivership is not inevitable, but it will take solidarity, compromise, and sacrifice.

While the mid-year cuts are going to be incredibly painful, it will be much worse if OUSD ends up in state receivership.

The district was put into state receivership.

Moirao has recently been appointed by the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction to be the State Administrator of a school district in state receivership.

Unfortunately, we understand that if the only other option is state receivership, then short - term cuts may be the better long - term answer.

It goes without saying that cuts to schools sites should be avoided unless necessary to avoid state receivership.

STATE RECEIVERSHIP — The state MUST have the authority to take over a charter school and re-constitute the board of trustees.

No matter what agreements are reached in this next contract, it must be an agreement that keeps us moving forward on the steep climb to fiscal solvency and away from the threat of state receivership.

Create Resume Work experience 11 / 06 - Present Booker T. Washington Insurance Birmingham, AL Vice President — Human Resources (Interim)-- Chief human resources executive retained as an independent contractor to lead and direct the company's Human Resource function through a period of state receivership.