Sentences with phrase «authority over the curriculum»

The network has said that the contract would allow the city to significantly interfere with its program by giving the city's Education Department authority over the curriculum, schedule and even the number of field trips it could take.

He sued Louisiana's elected state board of education for ceding the state's authority over curriculum and tests to Common Core's constellation of unelected private and federal officials.

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In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

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A teachers» contract adopted last year, which was engineered by Gov. Roy Romer, established «collaborative - decisionmaking» committees at each of the city's 110 schools and gave them broad authority over instructional and curriculum issues, faculty selection, and other matters.

But it is more complicated than that since, by state law, each school district has authority over its own curriculum.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

«Australia's curriculum authority will have a key role in implementing any possible changes agreed to by the council and over the summer months ACARA will consider the review and report back early next year.»

Schools and curriculum are often organised by Knowledge Learning Areas (KLA's) and politicians and education authorities create a hierarchy of knowledge giving precedence to some areas over others — such as numeracy and literacy.

Free schools, with more than 250 already open and more than 150 approved, are new state schools which have the same independence as academies, operating outside the local authority and with greater flexibility over the curriculum and staffing.

Historically, state policymakers have delegated their authority over public education to local school districts, particularly in matters of curriculum and instruction.

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.

Unlike local - authority - run schools, they are exempt from teaching the national curriculum and have increased control over teachers» pay and conditions and the length of school terms and days.

The largest iPad training company in the UK, iTeach is staffed by experienced teachers, working with over 2500 schools, colleges, local authorities, curriculum bodies and non profit organisations to ensure real and meaningful change with iPad as the tool.

These facts, along with the reality that the federal government is barred from developing a national curricula and doesn't have much ability to force states to stick to any promises to enact college - preparatory curricula standards, belies Malkin's argument that Common Core is merely an Obama administration effort to «usurp state authority» over education policy.

The city also has made many of its campuses «empowerment schools» in which principals, with input from the school community, are given greater authority over spending, educational programming and curriculum.

The schools are established as academies, independent of local authorities and with increased control over their curriculum, teachers» pay and conditions, and the length of school terms and days.

Local authority - maintained schools must teach elements of sex and relationships education as part of the science curriculum for all pupils over the age of 11, but academies do not have to follow the curriculum.

Recently, most local authorities have been following a policy of reducing the number of principal teachers in secondary schools by combining departments and having PTs titled «curriculum leaders» or «faculty heads», who essentially carry out the same responsibilities but over more than one department.

The National Safety Council does not have any regulatory authority over any ADI schools other than those that offer its ADI curriculum.