Sentences with phrase «by school bureaucracy»

No child will be left behind when educators truly get the message that many well - meaning parents are truly turned off by school bureaucracy.

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Planning for both of these meetings, within the UN bureaucracy and among the thousands of NGO activists who participate in UN-sponsored programs, was dominated by strident doomsayers and hard - core population controllers of the Garrett Hardin / Paul Ehrlich («the battle to feed all humanity is over») school.

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

Despite a growing understanding of the link between good nutrition and the ability to learn, many school districts feel bound by budgets and bureaucracy to stick with packaged, processed, heat - and - serve food.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Our long - standing views on the funding of schools, the National Curriculum and our stance on violent and disruptive pupils, excessive workload and bureaucracy are now being adopted by others and heeded by Government.

Replacing a 1950's bureaucracy with a 2020 performance organization, we formed the new New York education reform Commission headed by Dick Parsons, they have done extraordinary work; they have called for a full day Pre-K, extending school days and for performance pay.

Cuomo has argued his $ 1.5 billion cut can be weathered by local school districts without teacher layoffs, and said school funding is sometimes absorbed by the «education bureaucracy.»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration sent the state's top education officials a letter Thursday warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget to pursue an aggressive legislative agenda to fix what he calls an underperforming school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

He was hampered by DreamWorks» bureaucracy, but did break talent on films like Old School and Anchorman.

Indeed, despite a drastic restructuring of the school bureaucracy, implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg beginning in 2002 (see

Teachers who want to do professionally creative things, who've been limited by the stifling nature of large bureaucracy in some school districts, can find a good fit in charter schools.

Indeed, despite a drastic restructuring of the school bureaucracy, implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg beginning in 2002 (see Forum), and despite the heavy infusions of cash shown described in Figure 1, Gotham's academic outcomes remain poor.

We can not say for sure with our data, but it may be that parents are more likely to support charter schools in heavily unionized states, perhaps in a desire for more local control and less bureaucracy, or a desire for curricular and personnel policies that are less influenced by the union.

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

We make curricular decisions, we fundraise, we set budgets and make hiring decisions, and we are nimble enough to respond to the varying needs of our schools without being bogged down by bureaucracy.

By contrast, the political forces that surround public schools - particularly schools in troubled urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that schools need to succeed.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

American schools, and particularly schools serving our poorest kids, should be far better, freer of stupid bureaucracies and self - serving teacher unions, staffed by better people, and supported by systems that encourage quality instead of fighting it.

By the early 1960s, others on the opposite end of the political spectrum also were making the argument that vouchers were a viable alternative for getting around the bureaucracy and ineffectiveness of many public schools.

Charters had much more operational freedom than traditional schools because they weren't smothered by the micromanaging rules and regulations of the bureaucracy and union contract.

Micro-schooling and its teacher - led, entrepreneurial spirit might solve both of these problems, by evading the old habits, sclerotic bureaucracies, cultural biases against experimentation, antiquated labor arrangements, and low tolerance for risk that prevail in traditional schools.

Finally, the three OPSB district elementary schools, which might be expected to be the most similar because they are the only New Orleans schools operated by a government bureaucracy, also appear in multiple clusters.

Perry offers a step - by - step guide on how to negotiate through the school bureaucracies and force school boards to pay attention.

The hope was that schools would have clear financial incentives to provide a better education and could be more responsive to customer (i.e., parental) needs and wants when freed from the burden imposed by a centralized bureaucracy.

After all, the reasons for promoting choice often rest on the fact that public school systems are strangled by politics, bureaucracy, byzantine contractual rules, and licensing procedures that aggravate a shortage of quality employees.

According to our records, nearly half the funds allocated to public schools were consumed by the central bureaucracy.

The image of the Chicago Public Schools as a wasteful bureaucracy was aggravated by its continuing financial problems.

Put more money into the classroom and spend less on bureaucracy by merging redundant school districts and shining a spotlight on waste, unfunded mandates and programs that don't serve the goal of stronger student achievement.

Unencumbered by union contracts, long - standing district bureaucracy and many of the rules most schools must follow, they could try things that had never been done.

But charters are themselves public schools, albeit without the burden of work rules and other constraints imposed by unions and the bureaucracy.

One unanticipated outcome of move to more Free Schools and Academies is exactly what you describe: school leaders are now distracted by further layers of bureaucracy.

In September, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board member Steve Zimmer proposed a resolution that would limit parent choice by not allowing any new charters and adding more bureaucracy on existing charter schools.

The revelation will be an embarrassment to Mr Gove, who scrapped Labour's Building Schools for the Future scheme in July 2010, saying it was beset by bureaucracy and delay.

It is true that charter schools are exempt from some of the regulations and bureaucracy that hamper conventional public schools, but charter schools are subject to civil - rights and safety regulations and most of the academic requirements mandated by the state.

Just last week, the governor of New York sent the state's top education officials a letter warning that he plans to use his influence over the budget by pursuing an aggressive legislative agenda to fix an ailing school system hobbled by bureaucracy.

He is attempting to replicate the success of charter schools by freeing up to 200 district schools from the straitjackets of the union contract and city bureaucracy.

Pay for the new school by sending tax dollars directly to the campus, skipping the state, county, and local bureaucracies.

Traditional public schools are large bureaucracies with many constituencies, managed by many administrators.

Both have solid records as urban education reformers, particularly with regard to charter schools, which are built on the belief that parents need sound education options and that the common good is well served by schools run under various auspices, not just by large public - sector bureaucracies.

The problems most often mentioned by teachers and principals in the largest districts were those that originated outside their schools: scarce resources and changes imposed by an out - of - touch bureaucracy.

To Pelto, the exposure of Sharpe's record by The Hartford Courant is evidence of the shortcomings of a state education bureaucracy overly sympathetic of charter schools.

But as more educators and constituents are advocating smaller schools and smaller classes, the advantages of being one of the biggest school systems may be outweighed by the downside — headaches and crises caused by more layers of bureaucracy and a more impersonal culture.

Reform legislation pushed through the state's legislature by Gov. Bobby Jindal promises to remake Louisiana's educational system, freeing schools from the chains of bureaucracy, corruption, and union dominance.

She explained that the union was opening two charter schools so that it could «reclaim» the original charter school model conceived by former American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Albert Shanker, who said «charter schools could help teachers work without the stifling bureaucracy and stifling micromanagement.»

The most - successful school reform efforts undertaken by philanthropists have not been ones that attempted to focus on school district bureaucracies, but on expanding opportunities for high - quality education for children and families.

Deputy general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Martin Johnson said: «Requiring vast streams of data to be collected will add to the paperwork produced by schools and increase the bureaucracy in education.

Parent Trigger changes the dialogue from one in which district bureaucracies, including school boards, administrators, teacher unions and others fight over turf and economic interests to one driven by the question: «What is best for our kids?

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

The five - year program, funded by the Wallace Foundation, is designed to help improve management in sprawling school bureaucracies.