Sentences with phrase «greater authority over their schools»

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

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The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

The elected Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) retained authority over the system's 16 still - viable schools, an administrative domain that shrank further as several of the best schools fled central control for the greater autonomy that comes with charter status.

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.

General: ESSA allows states greater authority over their public school systems and expects states to bear more responsibility for their success.

Giving schools greater authority over teacher hiring and firing would provide them with additional incentives to evaluate teachers carefully.

Gloucestershire county council told Schools Week there had been a 35 per cent rise in children with autism over the past three years, while there was a 39 per cent increase since 2012 in the Greater Manchester combined authority.

The city also has made many of its campuses «empowerment schools» in which principals, with input from the school community, are given greater authority over spending, educational programming and curriculum.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.