Sentences with phrase «take over the school boards»

Part of that proposal suggested if Holtz dropped out he would be put in charge of a handful of large school districts and given powers to break apart districts and take over school boards — abilities that do not exist in state law.

-LSB-...] the corporate «reformers» attempt to take over the school board in Nashville and the well - deserved defeat they experienced during the recent election in the Music City.

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BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

The school board association said that it will take time to go over the 230 - page decision to see what it means for Catholic education in the province and for families who choose Catholic education.

:: eye glare:: So this past April Monday morning, with gigantic snow flakes falling from the sky:: another eye glare:: I took a little walk over to the student refectory (we live on a boarding school campus) with my thermos in hand to fill with half - caf coffee.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

The Board also took the first step toward expanding its social worker program to meet the explosive student enrollment growth experienced by CCSD over the last two decades by hiring a third social worker: Dr. Tara Quinn - Schuldt, who has worked as a social worker in Carroll County's school system for 13 years.

While awaiting word from the state education commissioner as to whether he'll retain his seat on the Buffalo School Board, Carl Paladino suggested the board be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school sSchool Board, Carl Paladino suggested the board be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school syBoard, Carl Paladino suggested the board be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school syboard be disbanded and an independent receiver take over the entire school sschool system.

Quinn tells WBFO News he believes the powerful New York State United Teachers Union has taken over the city school board, influencing the majority members.

Waronker, who took over as schools chief on June 2, contended in that letter that his attempts to turn around the struggling district have been undermined by the board's three - member majority.

With the planned Emerson Two hospitality high school in Buffalo well over a year behind schedule, it took a big leap Wednesday night as the lease for a site was approved by the school board.

Two days after Schools Superintendent Richard Organisciak attempted to quell anger on the New Rochelle Board of Education over reports of district employees making personal use of district vehicles, a Bonanno employee is still taking a district vehicle home every night and weekends.

More than 15 protesters dressed in black essentially shut down the meeting from the start, each taking turns reading statements or comments in opposition to Paladino — while School Board members debated whether to walk away, call the police or try to talk over them.

Deborah Archer, a visiting professor of clinical law at the New York University School of Law, will take over as acting chairwoman while the Civilian Complaint Review Board conducts a search.

State lawmakers are using their power to restore an East Ramapo school board member whose position was taken away over a technicality that some people believe was done on purpose.

Since then, Superintendent Kriner Cash has taken over as superintendent and cut ties with a controversial attorney brought in by the former school board majority to take a hard line on negotiations.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

A member of the School Board since 2012, she has been one of Paladino's main adversaries, even before she took over as president last year.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

But the subject of real interest here - how a kid might come to terms with authority even if his boarding school weren't taken over by Colombian terrorists - gets lost in the showdown.

When puberty hits, Alex Lawther (the young Alan Turing in «The Imitation Game») takes over as Christopher Robin, whose fame makes him an irresistible target for bullies after he is sent away to a boarding school.

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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.

Community and board members are taking a stand, fighting to reinstate music programs cut from school budgets over the last decade.

It adds: «It is clear to us the EFA did not want the boarding school to be a success and are willing to risk your children's future education by attempting to take over the school.

Moraine Community School was in Academic Emergency for two years prior to Fordham sponsorship, and its board and principal had gone through a nasty split just before we took over.

Finally, the school board (which had experienced significant turnover in the November 2012 elections) agreed to hear a proposal from the parents» chosen charter operator, which hopes to take over the school in the fall.

By the time the school board asked her to take over as interim superintendent in January 2012, she had worked her way up to assistant superintendent.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

As of 2002, a total of 24 states had adopted laws authorizing a state education agency to displace a school board and take over the operation of a school district in cases of protracted problems with academic performance, fiscal mismanagement, or corruption.

She will leave that position in June before taking over as the leader of the Lawrenceville, N.J., boarding and day school, which serves grades 9 - 12.

The conflict centered on whether the board or the advisory council had ultimate authority over the school since the reform measure took effect.

To keep the district solvent, the state of California provided a $ 100 million line of credit and took over the district's operations, stripping the school board of all but advisory powers and appointing an administrator to replace Chaconas.

In Montomery County, Md., a suburban school district outside of Washington, D.C. with over 150,000 students and an annual budget of $ 2.4 billion, most people probably couldn't answer these questions because much of the work of the school board seems to take place behind closed doors.

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.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

But experts disagree sharply over what form the training should take and whether most programs are effective in improving school boards» performance.

According to Reiss, he did not push harder for local control because once he took office he learned how much power the teachers unions held over many local school boards.

These tests, which are not required by the federal government, make up nearly 80 % of the more than 200 hours of standardized tests students have to take over their 12 years of school, DeMaria told the state school board.

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The School Board should help encourage new, high quality charter operators to come into New Orleans to open new schools or take over charters that are foundering.

The suit — filed by more than 40 plaintiffs on May 12 in Pensacola, Fla. — challenges several actions taken over the past year by the local school board and the district's superintendent, Leonard Hall.

Parents and teachers in the nation's largest school system would have broad new authority over their schools under a plan the New York City school board is expected to take up next week.

But at an emotional meeting last week, the board rejected turning over the schools and took Mayor Sylvester Turner's advice to challenge the state's decision.

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.

The screening was largely organized by School Reform Commissioner (SRC, Philadelphia's unelected school board, appointed by the Governor and Mayor) member Sylvia Simms, the Women's Christian Alliance, and Comcast (Simms» current employer) a company that took in over $ 64 billion without paying taxes to Philadelphia in 2013 while our schools continue to go extremely under - fSchool Reform Commissioner (SRC, Philadelphia's unelected school board, appointed by the Governor and Mayor) member Sylvia Simms, the Women's Christian Alliance, and Comcast (Simms» current employer) a company that took in over $ 64 billion without paying taxes to Philadelphia in 2013 while our schools continue to go extremely under - fschool board, appointed by the Governor and Mayor) member Sylvia Simms, the Women's Christian Alliance, and Comcast (Simms» current employer) a company that took in over $ 64 billion without paying taxes to Philadelphia in 2013 while our schools continue to go extremely under - funded.

Callen: Tunica shows money won't solve education woes Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, August 9, 2015 Gov. Phil Bryant signed an emergency declaration for the Tunica County School District, allowing the Mississippi Board of Education to take over the district, abolish the existing school board and superintendent, and implement corrective acSchool District, allowing the Mississippi Board of Education to take over the district, abolish the existing school board and superintendent, and implement corrective actBoard of Education to take over the district, abolish the existing school board and superintendent, and implement corrective acschool board and superintendent, and implement corrective actboard and superintendent, and implement corrective actions.

Euphemistically called the «Commissioner's Network,» Governor Malloy's plan would allow the unelected Commissioner of Education to take over up to 25 of Connecticut's lowest performing schools, and potentially their entire districts, pushing aside the democratically elected school boards that are the foundation to Connecticut's historic commitment to citizen government.

Gov. Bruce Rauner supports an elected seven - member school board but only as part of a GOP - introduced bill that would allow the state to take over CPS if it is deemed to be failing financially.