The Southern District handles cases from Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester and a few other counties north of the city.
Internal disagreements over the way the district handled the state's targeting of its Mexican-American studies program, banned by legislation that said it fostered hatred against white people, pushed other educational efforts off course, he said.
Amber Dobiesz, a Batavia resident who underwent a similar change three years ago, said the teacher was happy with her decision, as well as the way the school district handled it.
They were tired of way the district handles things.
Most of the people who signed the complaint against Melican attended Wednesday's board meeting to express their objections to the way the district handled the case.
One of the county board's primary functions is to have the final say into whether or not a school district handled a situation correctly.
Many of the nontraditional superintendents split the responsibilities of leading their districts, handling school board meetings, bond issues, union matters and politics themselves, but leaving issues of pedagogy to a deputy with educational credentials.
Miller said he wanted his bill to issue guidelines at the state and local level, letting the districts handle concussions in their own ways.
New research on how school districts handle the transfer of student data to companies, for instance, has found that administrators have signed contracts without clauses to protect personal details like children's contact information, age ranges or where they wait for school buses every morning.
After controversy erupted, however, the NSAA decided to let districts handle the issue locally.
He explained that the nation's 600 individual districts handle family reunification, each in a slightly different way, without properly coordinating paperwork or information.
