Sentences with phrase «in school bureaucracies»

Vested interests lodged in school bureaucracies and unions are able to exploit the splintered nature of school control in order to maintain the status quo.

He or she should be someone who will ensure this student is treated fairly and productively in the 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.»

The question is why these means of production do not turn up at workplaces, in schools, in the offices of the bureaucracy, in short, everywhere where there is social conflict.

Planning for both of these meetings, within the UN bureaucracy and among the thousands of NGO activists who participate in UN-sponsored programs, was dominated by strident doomsayers and hard - core population controllers of the Garrett Hardin / Paul Ehrlich («the battle to feed all humanity is over») school.

Forlorn, almost alone, and hardly beckoning is Gerald E. Knoff's The World Sunday School Movement (Seabury, $ 14.50), which does not intend to be more than a history of mainline ecumenical bureaucracies in religious education.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

The findings led Sullivan to conclude in his report that the National School Lunch Program, meant to provide basic nutrition to needy students, was «ripe for fraud and abuse» because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

A Tribune analysis in January highlighted concerns about fraud in the federal school lunch program within Chicago Public Schools because of layers of bureaucracy, incentives for high enrollment, and minimal checks and balances.

We're trying to really re-examine our own bureaucracy and see how we can make it easier for people to engage in farm to school effort.

When Undersecretary of Agriculture Ellen Haas took on the job of upgrading the nation's school lunch program, nutritionists, educators and consumer advocates had high hopes she could wrest the 48 - year - old system from the grip of bureaucracy and bring it in line with contemporary scientific thinking.

As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.

Afterward, Duffy said too much of the recent record increases in school funding have been «geared toward adults and the bureaucracy».

«This policy would reduce teacher mobility, create shortages in areas of lower pay, hit recruitment and retention, and create needless extra expense and bureaucracy for schools.

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.

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

«Free schools will only be allowed in specific circumstances in specific areas with a whole load of bureaucracy attached.»

The governor, who has attacked components of the public school system as an «education bureaucracy» that must be broken, instead stuck to the positive in this year's State of the State address.

And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.

The appeal, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, claims that, «because freedom from bureaucracy and DOE oversight is the fundamental cornerstone to public charter school design, Success Academy NYC can not sign DOE's illegal contract.»

Meanwhile the medical schools are so entrenched in dogma and bureaucracy that they are a decade behind current, definitive, research developments.

Indeed, despite a drastic restructuring of the school bureaucracy, implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg beginning in 2002 (see

Teachers who want to do professionally creative things, who've been limited by the stifling nature of large bureaucracy in some school districts, can find a good fit in charter schools.

One hears little in this book about school bureaucracies and the difficulties they create for education reformers.

Respect (especially from school administrators), pay raises, and smaller class sizes also made an impressive showing, and it seems eliminating excessive bureaucracy and paperwork could make a dent in exhaustion, too.

Schools tend to do best when they function in an informal, cooperative, flexible, and nurturing way - which is precisely the opposite of bureaucracy.

Indeed, despite a drastic restructuring of the school bureaucracy, implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg beginning in 2002 (see Forum), and despite the heavy infusions of cash shown described in Figure 1, Gotham's academic outcomes remain poor.

In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.

Throughout the spring, VOISE designers have been up to their laptops in the typical challenges of opening a new school in a large urban district: community outreach, teacher recruitment, student enrollment, fundraising, and a bit of bureaucracy, to boot.

We can not say for sure with our data, but it may be that parents are more likely to support charter schools in heavily unionized states, perhaps in a desire for more local control and less bureaucracy, or a desire for curricular and personnel policies that are less influenced by the union.

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.

In other cases, parents became passive and complacent in the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problemIn other cases, parents became passive and complacent in the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problemin the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problems.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

And its most important insight is in suggesting how far we have strayed from the days of the «school committee» which built and ran local schools to today's Titanic bureaucracies.

The big problem, though, is the film's implicit suggestion that the parent trigger is a solution in and of itself; if parents and good - hearted teachers can only wrest control away from the bureaucracy and the unions, the schools will improve.

Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»

In graduate school, I spent a lot of time thinking about educational politics, policy, and bureaucracy.

But I've also met scores of practitioners who have learned to navigate bureaucracy and the shoals of policy in order to make schools and systems more supportive of their work.

Mired for decades in Byzantine bureaucracy that wasted untold millions of dollars and incalculable numbers of student academic lives, the New York City school system was wrestled to the ground by a billionaire mayor, and almost everyone applauded.

Clive notes: «Whilst I regularly engage in discussion with school leaders regarding concerns that they have surrounding increased pressure, bureaucracy and diminishing funding, few topics have received quite as much air time as «academies.»

In the industrial sense, schools were always incomplete bureaucracies.

To exacerbate the issue, pre-k funding in California comes from a different funding stream than K — 12, so the state bureaucracy does not consider pre-K a part of the charter school, but a separate program.

Our schools are the chief holdout against hardness in his drama, and here the usual culprits are at fault - the schools of education, the eminences in the field of education, the school bureaucracies, the unions.

At its heart, the law reflects a belief that is radical and unproven in a large urban school system: that parents will make better decisions for the schools than a central bureaucracy widely perceived to be too large and remote to...

Although Smarick decries progressives earlier in the book for believing that solutions can be found in a bureaucracy of disinterested professionals, he puts too much faith in the «enlightened statesman» school chancellor.

Hernandez argues that because the developers of early childhood apps are trying to please parents and kids rather than school bureaucracies, we could see higher - quality apps emerge more quickly in this sector.

But CMOs also suffer from many self - inflicted problems as they scale: many are dealing with very high teacher turnover, increasing standardization and bureaucracy, and difficulty maintaining consistent quality, especially in their high - school models.

By contrast, the political forces that surround public schools - particularly schools in troubled urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that schools need to succeed.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.