Sentences with phrase «violate local control of schools»

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The plaintiff districts claimed that the commission fatally violated a provision of the state constitution holding that the local «school board shall operate, control and supervise all free public schools within the school district.»

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, sued, citing a host of constitutional offenses, including violating the ban on support for private schools and churches (the state's Blaine Amendment), the ban on religious tests, the guarantee of religious freedom, the uniformity requirement in the education clause, the prohibition on support for private institutions, and, for good measure, the guarantee of local control.

President Trump is violating his pledge to respect state and local control of education by proposing to shift funds from regular public schools to charter schools and private schools.

He noted that districts had some local control until the 1970s, when a series of court cases found California's method of school funding violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.