Sentences with phrase «take control of the school board»

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Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

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Any doubt of a significant power shift on the Buffalo School Board disappeared with Friday's appointment of the group's new leadership.Barbara Seals Nevergold will serve as president, a role she held before the outgoing majority took control in 2014.

We supported the introduction of mayoral control in 2002 because no one took responsibility for our schools under the old system of locally elected school boards.

Mayor Michael R. White, along with an appointed nine - member school board and a superintendent of his choosing, will take over the Cleveland schools, returning the district to local control for the first time in nearly 25 years.

Last month, the Arkansas State Board of Education took control of the schools in Little Rock.

In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.

A decision by the New Jersey board of education to take control of the Newark schools was delayed last week as the state's largest district asked the state supreme court for a stay.

The approval, along with the ouster last November of two of the Adelanto Unified School District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they shouSchool District board members who fought unsuccessfully to stop the families from taking over the school, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they shouschool, completes the effort of the families to become the first in the nation to use a Parent Trigger law to take control of a school — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they shouschool — and show other families how they can become lead decision - makers in education as they should be.

As LA mayor, Villaraigosa attempted to take control of the LA Unified school board, as the mayor has in cities like Chicago and New York.

Earlier this month, members of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization held a rally to push the state senate to pass a bill to take control of Chicago schools out of the mayor's hands and return it to an elected school board.

The District's old school board had chartering power until 2007, when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty took control of the city's traditional school system.

He added: «Regional Schools Commissioners are using their local knowledge to hold schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.Schools Commissioners are using their local knowledge to hold schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.»

The CCSA attempted to take control of the public school board by running four pro-charter candidates, Janine Moreno, Brenda Cayme, Armando Benavides, and Gino Borgioli.

The Orleans Parish School Board fired its teachers after the storm, and the state board of education took control of all but the 13 best schools, which remain under the local bBoard fired its teachers after the storm, and the state board of education took control of all but the 13 best schools, which remain under the local bboard of education took control of all but the 13 best schools, which remain under the local boardboard.

The movement also needs to do better in taping the growing Parent Power movement for potential board candidates; as seen in Adelanto, Calif., where the successful effort by families to take control of Desert Trails Elementary School also fueled the defeat of two members of the district's board, there are families more than ready to take on traditionalists who want to keep the status quo quite ante.

Now, with the cooperation of governors and state school boards, they are striding toward taking control of our public schools.

Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Dale Kooyenga want to take away the locally controlled and accountable school board from the people of Milwaukee, while lowering teacher licensure standards for the educators teaching those students, but the people of Milwaukee are fighting back.

The state's new plans for that district, created through House Bill 70 over the summer, has been controversial and the center of a legal challenge — a challenge that failed — over the state taking control of the district from voters and the elected school board.

He pledged to take control of the city's public schools, then under the supervision of the Board of Education, which had been ridiculed for budget troubles and stagnant academic performance.

Now that most schools are no longer considered «failing» in New Orleans, control is shifting back to the locally elected school board, which will take charge of decisions on opening and closing charters beginning in 2018.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.

The State Board of Education took a small step Thursday toward launching a new agency that will have a pivotal role in seeing that districts and schools meet achievement targets and other goals under the Local Control Funding Formula.

In September, after Newark students showed academic gains, New Jersey education officials voted to return control of the city's public schools to the local school board, 22 years after the state Board of Education took over the tattered distboard, 22 years after the state Board of Education took over the tattered distBoard of Education took over the tattered district.

In the spring of 2014, Peyser, who sat on the national board of Families for Excellent Schools, was imploring Boston's charter schools to * take control of their own destiny by becoming a more potent politicalSchools, was imploring Boston's charter schools to * take control of their own destiny by becoming a more potent politicalschools to * take control of their own destiny by becoming a more potent political force.

Malloy's proposal was to allow the Commissioner of Education to override local boards of education and take control of Commissioner Network Schools by requiring local or regional boards of education to «enter into a turnaround agreement with the department regarding all aspects of school operation and management, without limitation.»

Last spring the State Board directed Acting Commissioner George Coleman to find a «Special Master» to take over the day - to - day control of Windham's schools

Following the Korean War, the government took control of education from local school boards and concentrated it in the Ministry of Education, where it has been ever since.

A decade ago, fights for mayoral control of school districts — which took power out of the hands of many local school boards — also occasionally attracted outside involvement from national foundations or other advocates.

Thanks to that expertise and the support of headteacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.