Sentences with phrase «directly elected schools boards»

Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.

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«Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, you can even throw in Albany — there you have school boards directly elected by voters,» he said.

Although the appointees have local accountability to an elected board of outstanding head teachers, their existence points to a growing recognition that you can't run schools directly from Whitehall.

Whereas government - run schools are primarily accountable to elected school boards and unelected state education bureaucrats, private education providers are accountable directly to parents, and the same market forces that place competitive pressure on other kinds of businesses operate on these education providers as well.

Whereas in Washington, D.C., elected board members fulfilled the brokering role of filling school system positions with friends and supporters, in Baltimore the system of patronage led directly to the mayor's office.

One flaw with charter schools, critics say, is that they spend public money but don't have to answer directly to the public's elected representatives, the local school board.

Some argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process when citizens are directly involved, while others would counter that you still have accountability when an elected school board is appointing the superintendent, but you also have a larger pool to choose from and remove much of the politics from the system.

Proponents argue that elected superintendents bring more accountability and transparency to the process when citizens are directly involved, but that same accountability exists when an elected school board is appointing the superintendent.

Among its basic goals, DSBA is dedicated to advancing the quality of Delaware's public schools, promoting efficient and effective administration of those schools and strengthening the tradition of local citizen control through the establishment of education policy by elected and appointed school board members directly accountable to the communities they serve.

Somewhat overshadowed by the growing controversy over Mayor - elect Rahm's schools pick, this Tribune story shows the intention of the privatizers not to listen to the research about charters or to the reasonable concerns of interim CPS CEO Terry Mazany, who said about his decision to postpone consideration of new charter contracts at his first board meeting last January: «We simply do not have any budget flexibility to allocate dollars that will not lead directly to improved educational outcomes for all of our students.»

New Orleans could have become the first city in the U.S. where the elected school board doesn't directly run any public schools.

«Classrooms and Kids» puts that money directly in the hands of local school districts so those locally elected board members and their education leaders can make local decisions that best meet the needs of their community's children.

In common public schools, school boards are elected positions and are therefore directly publicly accountable.

Although the appointees have local accountability to an elected board of outstanding head teachers, their existence points to a growing recognition that you can't run schools directly from Whitehall.

We need elected officials, School Board members in particular, who are willing to take the fight directly to Tallahassee.