State Takeover
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- School takeover bill provokes fierce debate in House committee
- Mar 29, 8:26 AM: A bill that could force some 200 Arizona schools to close or seek new operators has at least temporarily stalled in the House Education Committee, despite opposition by many education advocates.
- Mayor Wu urges state education board against Boston Public Schools takeover
- Mar 23, 5:40 AM: Just four months into her term, Mayor Michelle Wu found herself Tuesday launching a defense against a possible state takeover of Boston Public Schools, becoming the first sitting Boston mayor in recent memory to speak before the >
- Study recommends state receivership for Boston Public Schools
- Mar 8, 9:00 AM: The state is being urged by the Pioneer Institute to appoint a receiver to take over leadership of Boston Public Schools due to the district’s “chronically low-performing schools.
- Goals for state-run Providence public schools moved back two years, RI top school official says
- Mar 1, 7:36 AM: The academic goals set by the state takeover of the Providence public schools have been pushed back two years due to the pandemic, the state's top education official told a Senate committee Monday night.
- S.F. school board cuts classroom, administrative spending in bid to avoid state takeover
- Dec 15, 7:36 AM: Hoping to prevent a state takeover, the San Francisco school board approved a budget plan Tuesday to address a $125 million shortfall, including a $50 million cut to schools and another $40 million reduction in support services, >
- ‘Parents don’t have a voice’: School Committee seeks end of state control of schoo
- Oct 19, 9:11 AM: A Monday night emergency meeting of the Lawrence School Committee and City Council over rising violence at the city’s high school ended with a central goal — to end a receivership that gives control of the school district to the >
- ‘Time is of the essence’: San Francisco’s school district faces possible state tak
- Oct 7, 6:15 AM: Over the past year and a half, the San Francisco Unified School District has confronted a pandemic and wrangled a serious recall effort. And now, the district faces a dire new problem: a possible takeover by the state.
- Do State Takeovers of School Districts Boost Student Learning?
- Aug 18, 12:44 PM: State takeovers of school districts are perhaps the most loathed strategy in education policy. Other K-12 reforms, from school choice to mayoral control, often generate controversy by diluting the power of elected school boards; >
- Education commissioner defends state takeover of Providence schools during hearing
- Jun 15, 8:43 AM: Rhode Island’s top education officials on Monday fiercely defended the state intervention of Providence public schools during an oversight hearing.
- State superintendent’s new power to fire school board members faces pushback
- Jun 3, 6:17 AM: Gov. Henry McMaster’s signature on Senate Bill 201 expanded the powers of South Carolina’s superintendent of education. The new act allows Superintendent Molly Spearman to fire entire school boards in underperforming >
- Opinion: How to rescue RI’s takeover of the Providence schools
- May 27, 4:58 AM: The state takeover started with strikes against it. The education commissioner has many talents, but no experience turning around an urban district in crisis. It took her months to find a superintendent who would do the job.
- Can state takeover of Providence schools be saved? Local experts weigh in
- May 21, 6:14 AM: When state Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green announced the state takeover of the city’s struggling schools 20 months ago, it was met with great fanfare and wide support.
- Plan for exiting schools from Tennessee turnaround district will head to governor’s desk
- May 7, 7:31 AM: Higher-performing charter schools in Tennessee’s turnaround district could have an opportunity to pivot from one state-run district to another under a plan approved by the legislature.
- Elected school boards could be dissolved under plan to turn around failing districts
- Apr 19, 5:57 AM: Local school board members whose districts are underperforming could find themselves out of a job if the South Carolina Department of Education succeeds in its yearslong push to gain greater control over the district takeover >
- Bill allowing Tennessee education commissioner to take over school districts dies for year in Senate
- Apr 12, 5:59 AM: A bill outlining how the state could take over a local school district falling short of its academic goals is dead after the Senate Education Committee officially closed for the year Wednesday night.
- Will Governor McKee take over the Providence school takeover?
- Apr 7, 6:17 AM: But as McKee gets his head around running an entire state, Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green and Providence Teachers Union President Maribeth Calabro are busy treating him like a substitute teacher who can’t quite >
- Indiana bill would stop state takeovers of failing schools
- Mar 23, 6:32 AM: The state of Indiana will never again consider the takeover of F-rated schools if a bill that is quickly moving through the state legislature passes this year.
- TEA appeals Houston ISD takeover lawsuit ruling to Texas Supreme Court
- Feb 26, 7:00 AM: Lawyers representing Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, pictured in 2019, filed an appeal Wednesday asking the Texas Supreme Court to overturn a temporary injunction halting the state's plans to replace Houston ISD school >
- N.J. gives school district local control after 30 years
- Jan 7, 7:12 AM: New Jersey’s takeover of Paterson Public Schools is officially over, three decades after the state seized control of the troubled district.
- Raimondo ‘frustrated’ by lack of progress on Providence teachers’ contract, but ho
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Dec 22, 6:53 AM:
Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green might be drawing a line in the sand with the Providence Teachers Union, but Governor Gina Raimondo isn’t playing on the same beach.
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