Sentences with phrase «taking over districts like»

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Like many proposed business ventures, the Rolling Meadows Park District plan to take over the beleaguered Plum Grove Club looks good on paper.

Dana has intimate familiarity with what it takes to make significant changes in a large, urban district like my own, and she is less - than - starry - eyed about the ability of any other district to follow suit without outside funding — over and above the current USDA reimbursement rate, OR that amount plus six cents.

Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.

Meanwhile you appeared in your own ads on television outfitted in sartorial splendor, perfectly coiffed, while seemingly inferring to the parents of East Ramapo that the best solution to their problem is to have a teacher like you, or perhaps your girlfriend, take over what the East Ramapo School District is increasingly failing to do.

And that is why you have people elected like Ed Day because people outside of Ramapo who have not seen the growth of the religious communities in their neighborhoods yet, they still understand what's happening in East Ramapo and they know that it's fundamentally wrong that people would take over a school district who don't send their children there and then deny minority students a fair education.

The school already has over a decade's experience opening its campus to public school enrichment camps and initiatives like Growing Girls and Gardens, where they are taking best practices from their venerable independent school for girls, working with the school district, and applying the learning to benefit some of the city's neediest students — walking the walk to offer outstanding education and opportunity for promising girls.

Gove's earnestly pursued and widely touted «academies» scheme, which allows district - operated public schools to convert to charter - like status and be managed by outside groups, has led to a major scandal in Birmingham, where a handful of such schools were taken over by fundamentalist Muslims.

Though the surface takeaway is that the Douglas affair is one of conservatives and reformers taking over an affluent district, there's a much bigger story here: We are likely to see many, many more episodes like this in the months and years to come, though there will be variations on the theme.

The plan also suggests that, to accomplish swift and deep reform akin to The Mind Trust's outlined plan, the Indiana General Assembly might want to consider passing a law that enables the state to take over «failing» districts much like it now has the authority to replace the leadership at «failing» schools.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

District Superintendent Tom Crowe says according to TEA regulations, when approaching the 6th year, «you have choices to make — either the state can come in and take over the school, or you can close the school and reopen it in a different format, or you can work with a partner like a charter school to take over the school.»

Learned, a veteran in school finance who came out of retirement to take the job, pored over the district's books and came to a quick conclusion: «My thought was, boy, I sure liked retirement,» he said.

In some states, like Tennessee, clear growth goals and a timeline are set for schools or districts that are taken over.

We like most of what we've seen since Cheatham took over, though the district's student discipline policy, aimed at reducing suspensions and expulsions, remains a concern if it increases classroom disruptions.

Soon enough, we'll have a nice BoE appointed by a mayor, just like all the other urban districts, taken over by tyrannical, anti-democratic forces.

As the school year rolls on, other priorities take precedence over «secondary» tasks like updating the district Facebook page, and what started with good intentions can soon fall by the wayside.

Stephen Edwards says the Marion school district was like the «wild, wild west» when he took over as superintendent in 2009.

«That's scary to me,» said Charlotte parent LauraLee McIntosh when she learned of Ridnouer's involvement in the state's Innovative School District, a controversial program that would allow outside groups — including private nonprofits like AAC and, possibly, for - profit companies — to take over struggling traditional public schools.

«We have billionaires like the Broad - Walmart plan who have said they are going to take over our schools, take over half our district and turn them into unregulated charters.

Its location in the heart of the downtown district makes it an ideal spot to take a break from a day's sightseeing and experience what St. Augustine was like over a hundred years ago.

«It looks like Congress has taken what I think is the unprecedented and rather bizarre step of expanding the jurisdiction of the federal courts to allow a particular District Court to take jurisdiction over a single case, that of Terri Schiavo.

Here's one article or you can google and find some other articles about it too, if you'd like, but it seems that the Hasidics are taking over the school district boards and diverting a lot of the funding for religious schools, which is hurting the regular public schools» funding.