Sentences with phrase «win control of the school district»

So far, the Parents Union has been a useful but limited political vehicle for causes Barr supported, such as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's unsuccessful attempt to win control of the school district.

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The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Educationfound that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

In the first round in February, groups of teachers, frequently allied with district administrators, won 29 schools; charter schools were given four, and three went to the education nonprofit controlled by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Education found that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

The $ 96.3 billion 2013 - 14 state budget, which won approval just ahead of the June 15 deadline, also carries out the much anticipated restructuring of school finances - the governor's Local Control Funding Formula, while providing an additional $ 1.25 billion to districts, county offices of education and charter schools to implement new common core state standards.