Sentences with phrase «freedom over the curriculum»

Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms over the curriculum away from academies.

Education Schools We agree to promote the reform of schools in order to ensure: - that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; - that all schools have greater freedom over curriculum; and, - that all schools are held properly accountable.

Among those who do see positives, freedom over the curriculum is the most popular advantage for both classroom teachers and senior leaders, at 56 per cent and 67 per cent respectively.

They voted for extending academy freedoms over the curriculum, now they want to scrap them.»

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

Both types of school will be what the government calls independent state schools, with more freedom over the curriculum and teachers» pay and conditions.

Those academies will have to renegotiate their agreements with the government to to get the new academy freedoms over the curriculum.

The coalition document, released on Thursday, also says schools will be given more freedom over the curriculum.

The document says: «We will promote the reform of schools in order to ensure that new providers can enter the state school system in response to parental demand; that all schools have greater freedom over the curriculum; and that all schools are held properly to account».

«Stephen Twigg has previously said that he wants to take freedoms over the curriculum away from academies,» said a government source.

Not exact matches

Free schools are newly established schools set up by groups such as teachers, parents, businesses and academy chains, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum.

This could involve approaches to assessment and curriculum or organizational innovations like giving more site based freedom over budgets and personnel to other district schools, based on successful charter experiments.

Other key findings include: - Squeezed budgets mean many schools have been forced to shed staff, with further reductions to staff spending expected over the next two years - Teacher shortages seem to be getting worse - Schools that opt for academy status are not embracing the freedoms it brings in terms of curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions - Secondary governors are using 11 - 16 funding to subsidise their sixth forms, as cuts in post-16 budgets bite

For those that found autonomy to have a positive effect, most cited freedom on the curriculum (63 per cent) and control over resources (60 per cent).

This was intended to give them greater freedom over their budgets, staffing, curricula and other operations to achieve outcomes of higher quality education and increased competition.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

Like academies, free schools have more freedom over the timetable and curriculum than other schools, and over the pay and conditions of staff.

Essentially, academies have more freedom than other state schools over their finances, the curriculum, and teachers» pay and conditions.

They have more freedom than other state schools over their finances and curriculum, and do not need to follow national pay and conditions for teachers.

«What have the promoters of charter schools done with the freedom over their budgets, staffing, curricula and other operations?»

Primary schools in England would get more freedom from council control and power over curriculum, budget and hours under new Conservative proposals.

The coalition government has been pushing the roll - out of the programme, which gives schools more freedom over their budgets and curriculum.