Sentence examples for superintendents power from inspiring English sources
Other recommendations include giving superintendents power to hire teachers and other employees directly, instead of having the central board hire them and assign them to districts.
The changes involve giving superintendents more power over spending, hiring and instructional policy.
The New York Times obtained a copy of the draft report, which also recommended giving the district superintendents more power.
The study also recommended other cost-saving measures, like giving district superintendents more power over purchasing and turning over some functions to private companies.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy said yesterday that he planned to give district superintendents more power over spending, hiring and instructional policy as part of a major reorganization of the school bureaucracy.
Mr. Thompson said the board had needed to re-evaluate the duties of its central administrative staff since 1996, when the Legislature passed a school governance law that gave the chancellor and the 32 district superintendents more power in shaping policy.
One would give superintendents the power to purchase supplies and services from their choice of vendor, instead of from the central board, as they are now required to do.
A majority of New Orleans school board members backed away from an effort to fire the schools superintendent, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed a bill that limited the board's firing authority while strengthening the superintendent's power.
It gave the chancellor broad powers over superintendents, including the power to fire them.
Section 39 of the New York Banking Law gives the superintendent the power to require any financial institution operating in the state to provide an explanation at a hearing whenever it appears that "it has violated any law or regulation".
"The majority of the board has taken more of the superintendent's power, and not only that, they have been very critical of him," said Albert A. Edwards, a trustee, adding that Mr. Farmer gave no indication that he intended to leave when the two met early last week.
