Sentences with phrase «improve school autonomy»

Katie Harrison would like to see schools becoming more autonomous: «We need to improve school autonomy by allowing teachers much greater freedom with what and how they teach, with less scrutiny.»

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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.

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy in the early 2000s improved GCSE results for their pupils.

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy by being converted into academies under the former Labour government have seen improved exam results compared to similar schools that did not become academies, according to our new research.

Schools are taking on markedly more autonomy under the academies programme, multi-academy trusts (MATs) are springing up around the country, and all the talk is now of a «self - improving and school - led system».

It advocates for strong standards, aligned curriculum frameworks, improved teacher preparation and certification systems, increased school - level autonomy, diverse school options, and more early - childhood programs.

The end result of this was that for each of the schools we were able to map in diagrammatic form the links between that professional autonomy and improved outcomes for students.

Four of them were schools nominated by school system leaders as schools that had had autonomy for several years, had dramatically improved learning outcomes for students, and that the system leaders felt that the schools would have available some evidence that would enable us to explore the possible links between school autonomy and outcomes for students.

The coalitions in these so - called Community of Practice (COP) states are «committed to improving state charter school laws in the areas of funding, autonomy, and accountability,» according to the NAPCS website.

Despite acknowledging that «no one in New Zealand wants to return to the old system,» Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd are largely negative in their conclusions about choice and school autonomy, arguing that they fail to improve schools in low - income areas and instead often exacerbate their problems.

With greater autonomy and collaboration across an age range from three to 18, The Three Rivers, which was previously a Multi-Academy Trust made up of The King Edward VI School, along with Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, is able to provide better links throughout the school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students School, along with Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, is able to provide better links throughout the school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students alike.

The unifying theme for these schools is their commitment to improving their practice which they believe requires increased flexibility and autonomy from district constraints.

Arizona laws provide public charter schools more autonomy in exchange for greater accountability for improved student achievement.

Charter schools exist to improve educational outcomes for students and are awarded autonomy in a variety of ways to allow this to happen.

and Angus King (I - Maine) on their amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177) that would provide strong support for local autonomy in managing school administration, budget development and related operations for school district responsibilities in improving student achievement.

One of the signature challenges of leadership in schools is trying to create that coherence especially in schools that have been around for a long time with a really strong tradition of what we might call radical teacher autonomy: letting every teacher go to their own classroom, go to their own space, and teach and improve however they want.

Enabling successful schools (according to standards set between the school and the district, probably including but not limited to test scores) to have greater autonomy over core elements such as hiring, curriculum and financial resources will help improve Indy's educational outlook, the report suggested.

This legislation gave those schools additional autonomies around collective bargaining, personnel assignment and scheduling, the length of the school day, funding, and other organizational and structural issues, and also created the possibility of state receivership if the schools did not dramatically improve their performance.

Looking back, SIG assumed that schools could improve by granting them autonomy and flexibility (e.g. staffing, budgeting, programming, or scheduling) from district policy.

We are doing as much of that as we can now but the autonomy we will have as an Innovation School will help us improve these efforts.

Successful applications will identify and aim to solve a specific barrier to parent choice and student access in Indianapolis or will systemically improve the landscape for the autonomy of high - performing schools.

Develop teacher recruitment strategies that include sufficient and sustainable financial incentives coupled with efforts to empower school principals with the authority and autonomy to improve working conditions for teachers.

Regaining some autonomy for your members will help level the playing field between district and charter public schools and could go a long way to improving relationships between sides that seldom meet.

The principles promoted by successive governments - of ever - greater school autonomy and parental choice and community involvement - are seen as great strengths in improving schools.

In short, the empirical evidence for school autonomy and improved student outcomes is, at best, inconclusive.

However, the presence of autonomy at the school level does not mean it is the cause of improved or higher performance.

Innovation zones (i - Zones) are clusters of schools designated by a state or district that have special autonomy to introduce changes needed to improve instruction and student learning.

On Wednesday, The Age reported on a «landmark study» commissioned by the federal government that found school autonomy does improve school outcomes.

To that end, we can not claim that school autonomy will improve student outcomes.

The idea is to give schools with the largest numbers of needy students more money and also more autonomy over spending, in the hopes of reducing inequities and improving achievement.

Rarely, however, have these diverse sources come together to deliver a comprehensive statement on the merits of school autonomy for improving student outcomes.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

Overall, the goal in MPS charter schools is to provide new programs for underserved or at - risk students, reduce dropouts, and give autonomy to schools that improve student achievement.

We will support evidence - based policy reforms aimed at ensuring principals have the autonomy and data they need to lead schools with strong cultures focused on improving teaching and learning, and that they are trained to use teacher evaluations to deliver high - quality observations and feedback.

ESSA returns a great deal of autonomy and authority to states, including the flexibility to design accountability and support systems that work to improve outcomes for their students and schools.

As authorized in Section 1008.36, the program provides greater autonomy and financial awards to schools that demonstrate sustained or significantly improved student performance.

In this role, Holly directed a wide range of state and local policy initiatives focused on improving educational outcomes for children through promoting autonomy, accountability, and equity in New Orleans charter schools.

After four years of restructuring the staff, improving test scores and involving the parents, Lee won approval for it to become an «affiliated» or «dependent» charter, which is a unique hybrid that allows some autonomies but still keeps the school connected to the larger district and retains union contracts.

Increasing teacher leaders» autonomy may also improve teacher recruitment and retention — particularly in high - poverty schools.

While serious efforts are underway to improve the professional practices of authorizers in California, inconsistent and ineffective authorizing has produced too little charter school autonomy in some cases and too little charter...

In an I - Zone, schools are granted flexibilities to facilitate improved student achievement and funding to hire a proven leader to manage the local I - Zone strategy with greater autonomy to drive improvements for all schools within a zone.

Proponents of charter schooling contend that this autonomy - for - accountability bargain leads to improved student achievement in individual charter schools by allowing schools the freedom to implement innovative practices and be held accountable only for their outputs.

When Congress created the State Entity Grant of the Charter School Program, it significantly improved many laws governing the state grant program by increasing autonomy and flexibility.

The Christina School District in Delaware, comprised of both urban and suburban schools with a diverse group of learners, was interested in how technology could be used to improve their math instruction while still giving individual schools and teachers as much autonomy as possible.