Under Devolved School Management control of the school's overall budget is largely at school level.
Their evolving list of demands, hammered out in days and nights of sweaty argument, includes calls for higher direct taxes for the rich, lower VAT for everyone, more hospital beds, free nursery-school, rent control and cheap home-building enforced by the state.
The tags were introduced to track students and help tighten control of school funding.
This week the principal announced his retirement after LA's newly elected mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, suggested the school is out of control.
Given a sense of urgency by the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the gun control debate rages on across the nation.
Next month William Hague, the Tory leader, is due to announce that his party would go even further in devolving budgetary control to school heads.
She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.
As a trade-off, "I'm giving up control of my school by being part of this, " he said.
The top-down, centralized control exerted by school reformers was a glaring contrast to the choice and experimentation advocates of school reform purported to be after.
Now the same day that Bernadette Reinking's group won control of the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, the Kansas Board of Education made its own decision.
Indeed, when they first circulated over a year ago I, together with virtually every academic that commented on the study, urged Professor Seto to control for law school size.
When schools schedule each other, perhaps there should be a line in the contract that immediately voids the game if there is a change of control of the school.
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When he seized control of the school system in 2002, the mayor embraced charter schools and widened options for parents who didn't want to send their children to failing neighborhood schools.
We want to include 52 skills in one grade level curriculum, in a shorter school day, with local control over standards, with randomly qualified instructors, with varying materials and instructional approaches AND still use a standardized measure of competence.
Worse, the school violence was getting out of control with two shootings in the last year alone.
The 10 percent drop between December and January comes amid a fierce national debate on gun control after the horrific school shooting in Newtown.
Today, there are five cities and three public-school districts in Michigan under the control of emergency managers, and none has emerged from state control during Mr. Snyder's two-year-plus tenure.
It lobbies federal and state lawmakers, and it aired a spate of television ads this year urging Congress to expand background checks and pass other gun-control measures after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The college relies on the network for telephone and intercom services, video surveillance, six school-run cable channels and thermostat control.
She insisted providers adhered to stringent "procurement policies and procedures for sourcing and ensuring quality control of food products for school menus".
Across the state at Eastern Virginia Medical School, researchers are studying a birth control pill that would give women just four menstrual periods a year.
Sargent, a professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School and the codirector of the Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, both in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Vallas got the job three years ago after the Republican-controlled Illinois state legislature in Springfield passed a sweeping reform bill that gave Mayor Daley effective control of the Chicago public school system.
"It's nothing I can control, and like I've said ever since I was at Nease High School, I really try not to worry about what I can't control, " Tebow said.
They want to control what our kids learn in school about sex and about science.
And because in the Zinch model the student has to give specific permission to allow communication from the school, the kids sense they have more control.
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Finally, Congress and the White House stepped in, and over the next few months most of the powers of the mayor, city council and school board were handed over to the unelected control board.
These living fossils are wildly popular (last autumn one Surrey grammar school had to call the police for crowd control when 1, 500 children turned up to sit its entrance exam for 126 places), but their freedom is being eroded.
After the murders at Sandy Hook school he wholeheartedly embraced the cause of greater gun control.
He holds academic appointments with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory Center for Injury Control.
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