Sentences with phrase «autonomy over public education»

«Why would our legislators willingly relinquish or even limit their autonomy over public education?»

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Hawkins had harsh criticisms for Cuomo's education agenda for shortchanging funding for public education, pushing high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter schools over public schools.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

We have a long history of rethinking education systems and advocating for in - district schools that have maximum autonomy over their resources, including our pioneering work with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on the Pilot school model, and with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education on the Innovation Schooeducation systems and advocating for in - district schools that have maximum autonomy over their resources, including our pioneering work with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) on the Pilot school model, and with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education on the Innovation SchooEducation on the Innovation Schools model.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.