If we can not deliver on this commitment, we are failing in our
public education responsibility, and no historical attachment to a particular delivery system should prevent our making the necessary changes.
Check out this list by the Institute of Educational Sciences to see where your state stands on charter school caps, automatic exemptions, required teacher certification, and identification of
special education responsibilities for charter schools.
(1) Hire out - of - state consultants and (2) hand over State Department
of Education responsibilities and operations to a corporate education reform industry lobby group.
It has the potential to undo nearly all of the mischievous, dysfunctional, intrusive, big - government features of NCLB and return
most education responsibility and authority to states, just as the Tenth Amendment prescribes.
The legislation transfers to the secretary of state for
education responsibilities previously held by some quangos which are being abolished, including the school curriculum and teacher training.
If we can not deliver on this commitment, we are failing in our
public education responsibility, and no historical attachment to a particular delivery system should prevent our making the necessary structural changes.
Any move to make a child's
education the responsibility of parties other than the parent's strikes at the very heart of the legislative framework for education in England and would expose those other parties to formal legal responsibility enforceable and actionable in the courts.»
Because of this, the Department issued guidance last year to help charter schools and authorizers understand and fulfill their special
education responsibilities.