Sentences with phrase «flexibility over the curriculum»

Supporters of free schools say they bring greater educational autonomy to parents and communities and that flexibility over the curriculum and qualifications required to teach can improve learning.

Free schools, with more than 250 already open and more than 150 approved, are new state schools which have the same independence as academies, operating outside the local authority and with greater flexibility over the curriculum and staffing.

Charters are publicly - funded schools run by non-elected governing boards and given broad flexibility over curriculum.

Meanwhile, with many district leaders requesting greater flexibility over curriculum, calendars and spending, local schools have been largely rebuffed by state lawmakers, board members said, although Hall's district includes allowances for an «Innovation Zone» or «I - Zone» opening up charter - like flexibilities for certain low - performing schools.

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The GMB ™ Curriculum builds strength, flexibility, and control with fun movement skills that carry over to virtually any activity.

They have influence over the curriculum taught, flexibility regarding the use of their funding, including salaries paid to staff, and overall, greater control of the school's strategic direction and ability to innovate.

Part of making educational spaces work, according to architects, is incorporating long - term flexibility so that as technology, curricula, and pedagogies evolve over a building's 50 - year life span, it can support and not hinder those changes.

Community Magnet is an affiliated charter which allows flexibility in many areas of school management (budget, staff selection) as well as school site control over curriculum selections and school - based enrichment.

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.

They are unique in the nation in that they have autonomy over budget, staffing, governance, curriculum and assessment, and the school calendar to provide increased flexibility to organize schools and staffing to best meet students» needs, while operating within the economy of scale of a large urban public school district.

«The first one would be to have them get an individualized education that meets the needs of each student; the second was that we were drawn to a classical curriculum; and the third would be flexibility in time with family,» said Banks, a resident of Fredericksburg, Va., who added that her elementary - age children went back and forth between home education and Catholic school over the past few years before they settled on home education.

Generally this means that the charter school (or group of charter schools) has more flexibility over things like the curriculum, personnel and budget.

This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced a tentative contract agreement that creates more autonomy for teachers, giving them greater flexibility in the classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and finances.

Schools around the country are leveraging the integration of online digital content and offline curriculum to allow for increased student flexibility over path and pace.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.