Sentences with phrase «wrest control of a school system»

A mayor's attempt to wrest control of a school system from an elected school board might seem like a brave effort to shake up a recalcitrant education system, or it could be dismissed as a politician's power grab.

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Walcott became chancellor in 2011, but he'd been at Bloomberg's side since the mayor wrested control of the city's public school system from the state in 2002.

Klein also did indeed «alienate» swaths of people, predominantly state lawmakers who made an effort to strip the mayor of control of the school system — something he wrested from the Board of Education in 2002 when he took office.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

Risk - taking charter school operator Steve Barr is launching an effort through which parents would wrest political control of the L.A. school system from unions, school bureaucrats and other entrenched interests.