Sentences with phrase «usurps school»

Kathy Riedlinger, chief executive of the Lusher Charter School — which is under local board authority — said the campus doesn't participate in the lottery because the centralized admissions system usurps school autonomy.

TfAers in power positions enact authoritarian policies to usurp school board decision making, promote poor educational practices, and believe in a dogma of assessment that, under scrutiny, is fraudulent.

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At a hearing on the injunction in Fort Worth on Aug. 12, lawyers for Texas said the guidelines usurp the authority of school districts nationwide.

Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.

The home - schooled Vallejo native usurped the 13 - 14 age group record as well.

This extension of the authority of the school goes too far to usurp the rights of parents and is ineffective at truly improving children's health.

He voted for all the testing that parents and kids hate and voted to impose an outrageous evaluation system on teachers, usurping the authority of locally elected school boards.

«It appears there's an overreach by government usurping local control,» said Rick Timbs, Statewide School Finance Consortium executive director.

Magee says the governor is trying to «usurp the local authority of elected school boards.»

If Labour politics were an American high - school drama, some on the right of the party must have felt as though they were once the jocks and the prom queens, but have been suddenly usurped in the pecking order by the emo kids and goths they used to pity or mock.

(Cliff Notes for those of us who dozed through high school English... in the original version of the play, Prospero, Duke of Milan, is usurped and exiled to an island with his young daughter Miranda.

Gov. George Deukmejian of California has vetoed a proposed measure linking driver's licenses to school attendance, contending that it would usurp the authority of parents.

In its 5 - to - 4 decision, the court ruled that the state legislature did not usurp the authority of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (bese) when it required that all schools present a «balanced treatment» of creationism and evolution.

Why do states now have the right to usurp local authority to open charters run by nonprofit and for - profit charter chains even if they aren't quality schools?

But critics in Georgia, including a set of school systems that filed suit, charged that the law establishing that state's commission usurped the local authority of school districts and inappropriately drained public money from those systems.

Following up on a recent post about «New Mexico UnEnchanted» and a follow - up post about how the state's Public Education Department (PED) is also «Silencing [its] Educators» requiring them to sign contractual documents indicating they will not «diminish the significance or importance of the tests» in the state, it now seems the PED is also attempting to usurp the power and authority of its state's local school boards.

He contends the move to enlist charters is not evidence - based, would not be financially attractive to charter operators, would cause chaos in the lives of our most vulnerable students while further damaging neighborhoods, would usurp local elected school board control, and would not solve the challenging problems presented by low - performing, high - poverty schools.

Holtz, who is backed by conservatives, opposed the idea of a state school board, saying unelected appointees would usurp power from local school boards.

And educators, seeking to prepare students for a successful future in which computer and typing skills have usurped penmanship, are finding cursive's relevance waning, especially with leaner school budgets and curricula packed with standardized testing prep.

threatening to increase the number of charter schools within the District, the Board needs to make it clear to the CSD that usurping their power is not acceptable and that they must vote on all material revisions to the charters that they have authorized.

The last decade has seen traditional forms of parent involvement in schools usurped by more activist models.

The recommendations assert that this compact should not make decisions about openings and closings or «usurp the authority» of district and charter school leaders.

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4

But the charter school concept was usurped by the business crowd after Chris Whittle's failed attempt to push for - profit Edison Schools on the public.

With tablets usurping black - and - white readers as the mid-size device du jour, is there still room for a gadget that's more decidedly old school?