Sentences with phrase «driven by the head teacher»

This process was driven by the head teacher and community manager, supported by the governors.

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I am committed to devolving more powers and funding to schools, and empowering teachers and head teachers to ensure that they are in the driving seat of school improvement in Scotland, supported by parents and children and young people themselves.

The teacher recruitment and retention crisis driven by excessive workload is resulting in head teachers struggling to fill posts and having to make do with teachers taking subjects that are not their speciality.

It says the change will drive up teaching standards by giving head teachers flexibility to reward the best teachers.

The government argues academies drive up standards by putting more power in the hands of head teachers over pay, length of the school day and term times.

The government says free schools will drive up standards and give parents more choice of good schools by putting more power in head teachers» hands, while some critics see them as an experimental «vanity project» which has led to schools being built where they are not needed.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past few weeks (and, actually, longer than that), decades of dealmaking between states, districts, and affiliates of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is rearing its ugly head just as state governments must also deal with increasing Medicaid costs driven by the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

The recruitment drive is supported by the ASCL and NAHT head teachers» organisations, the National Governors» Association, the CBI employers group and the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the gap between primary and secondary performance had been «driven by the turmoil at secondary compared to primary», such as the upheavals in exams and curriculum.