Sentences with phrase «government school bureaucracy»

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The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

Under the Labour government, schools had to spend more time on paperwork and wasteful bureaucracy than ever before, the national curriculum became too rigid and discipline deteriorated.

Our long - standing views on the funding of schools, the National Curriculum and our stance on violent and disruptive pupils, excessive workload and bureaucracy are now being adopted by others and heeded by Government.

So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

Excerpt: «Reforming the Common Core, increasing aid to local schools, and making sure that educational funding goes to the classroom and benefits our students, rather than being squandered on additional layers of unnecessary government bureaucracy.»

The multi-layer decision - making structure, while faithful in its way to American federalism, mainly serves nowadays to pull schools apart in response to funding and regulatory streams emanating from different levels of government, to foster bureaucracy, confusion, and tension and, maybe most importantly, to give every level a functional veto over reforms initiated at any other level.

The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of schools.

Calling for something to be done «to change our circumstances in the school, the workplaces, the bureaucracies, the government» and insisting on man's «unrealized potential for self - cultivation and self - direction,» the statement issued a challenge to modern society built on a critique that had begun six years earlier with William Whyte's The Organization Man.

Finally, the three OPSB district elementary schools, which might be expected to be the most similar because they are the only New Orleans schools operated by a government bureaucracy, also appear in multiple clusters.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

When schools are viewed as just another government program — or worse, as one observer noted, as little more than outposts of a federal bureaucracy — the sense of local ownership that has been a hallmark of the American education system is weakened if not lost altogether.

He said school districts are used to answering to Sacramento — and providing government bureaucracies information they need to satisfy both state and federal accountability requirements.

«Assessment systems need to make public schools accountable to parents, students and the local community rather than to distant government bureaucracies,» the report concludes.

While governments can mandate legal requirements for schools, in a lot of instances bureaucracy that tries to control the details of the application of such laws prevents schools from being able to implement different ideas that would better meet their needs.

Henderson first began crusading to dismantle the fortressed bureaucracy of some public schools in the 1970s, at a time when groups like Common Cause and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen were pushing for government to be more responsive to citizens.

If the idea of charter schools is to free teachers and principals from government bureaucracy, then the scandals and the lawsuits have provided ammunition for those who see the need for at least some kind of governmental oversight.

National Union of Teachers general secretary Christine Blower said teachers would find it «obscene» that the government was choosing to pour cash into an «unelected, unaccountable layer of bureaucracy» while schools faced an «unprecedented squeeze» on their budgets.

In Oregon, the answer by government has often been to implement more testing, requirements, and bureaucracy to try and hold schools accountable.

I think that the federal government can best serve Tennessee educators by eliminating unnecessary layers of Washington bureaucracy and returning decision - making power to state and local officials who best know the needs of their schools.

High schools on the other hand need to refer to the government bureaucracy office for making such purchases.