Sentences with phrase «about local school improvement»

First and foremost, system leaders must come up with clear and coherent guidelines about who gets to make which decisions about local school improvement, how those decisions are to be made, what kinds of learning opportunities can be pursued, and how the district will ensure equitable access to and participation in the process.

Not exact matches

At the center is the National Strategies Group for school improvement (about 300 staff members); at each of the nine regions are regional strategies group; in each of the 150 local authorities are the local authority strategies group; and then at each school there is a team made up of the headmaster, parents, teachers and local business leaders.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

Our series of papers is meant to inform state school chiefs, state education agency staff, governors and legislative staff, and state advocacy groups about how to support the most promising local improvement efforts.

Learn more about our Linking State and Local School Improvement Initiative.

When a local authority consistently fails to meet a minimum performance threshold across its schools, demonstrating an inability to bring about meaningful school improvement.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

The intent was to organize and frame the field's learning about rapid school improvement efforts and how improvement decisions made at any one level could have a lasting impact across all levels of a system comprising the state education agency (SEA), the local education agency (LEA), and the individual school.

Local improvement measures (about school culture, talent, execution and knowledge) suggest what needs to be done.

While the article characterizes the LCFF as a strong improvement over the state's previous convoluted system of school funding, disputes remain about the state's role in the money's use and the balance between preserving local flexibility and ensuring that resources go to meet the needs of the students who generate them.

Many of the federal requirements in the areas of accountability, assessments, and school improvement have changed, with many of the decisions about these policies now to be made at the state or local level.

The Blackpool Challenge replaces the local authority's school improvement board and brings together the area's school leaders, council representatives and the RSC to share best practice and bring about rapid improvement.»

What's more, local school leaders, empowered by ESSA, will have more say about the school improvement efforts targeting low - performing schools.

In California, recent policy shifts have created a high degree of local control with the expectation that school districts will think differently about school and district improvement.

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