Sentences with phrase «increasing school autonomy»

Increasing school autonomy can be successful when the district provides the transitional support that school leaders may need to make their visions a reality.

Multi-academy trusts are on everybody's lips, but don't dismiss the federation option In an era of increasing school autonomy and declining local authority capacity, the need for schools...

The role and selection of school governors is now on the agenda as accountability issues come into sharper focus because of increasing school autonomy.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

Other reform tactics included reducing the size differences between secondary schools (secondary schools used to be the largest across OECD countries but are now the smallest), decentralization, increased school autonomy, professional development, and the introduction of national exams.

It also sought to increase school autonomy under its Independent Public Schools initiative, but Labor had already supported school autonomy during the Rudd and Gillard era through the Empowering Local Schools initiative.

In his speech to a London school this week, Mr Clegg will say: «I'm proud of our work over the last three years to increase school autonomy, which, in government with the Conservatives, has been through the academies programme.»

The academy programme and fewer inspections for better schools have increased school autonomy.

Not exact matches

In the fall of 2015, Elm City Preparatory Elementary School in New Haven, Connecticut, one of the founding schools of the Achievement First network, introduced a wholesale redesign of its curriculum that includes an embrace of many of the beliefs and practices of deeper learning, including an increased emphasis on experiential learning and student autonomy.

Students in Waldorf high schools are given increasing autonomy over their education under the mentorship of teachers who are specialists in their fields.

It is all about giving professionals the autonomy to run their schools, but within a framework of increased accountability.

«The education policies of the previous Coalition Government, continued by this one, premised on extensive and excessive autonomy for schools and the obsessive pursuit of deregulation, have rapidly increased covert selection, often targeted at pupils from materially deprived backgrounds.

«Since 2010 there has been an obsessive focus on structural change and increased autonomy for individual schools and providers, which has compromised the values and ethos of the public education system.

«The abolition of national guidance on school charging policies and increasing autonomy for schools has allowed schools to charge for educational activities which were previously free.

«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great teachers and leaders in the very best charter schools, traditional district schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

According to her analysis, schools with full pay autonomy may not be using this to increase the salaries of physics teachers — potentially because of «an aversion to within - school pay inequality» or because of the «overall squeeze on state school funding».

But this proposal would remake the relationships between schools, districts, and states into a far more efficient and effective model, one that would increase agility and remove regulations that limit the autonomy of school leaders.

In a new article for Education Next, David Osborne, director of the project on Reinventing America's Schools at the Progressive Policy Institute, finds Denver's pursuit of this strategy, which has increased school leader autonomy, has produced impressive gains in student achievement, leading to growing public support for the reforms.

The tradeoff with charters schools is increased autonomy for increased accountability.

School leaders and classroom teachers would have greater say over how they'd be assessed, as well as increased autonomy.

«We are committed to establishing a worldwide educational system by simultaneously raising the standards of learning, affording greater autonomy at the local school level, and creating increased accountability for student success,» said Lillian Gonzalez, the director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,...

Increased local autonomy, more complex operations and more rigorous direct accountability mean that all schools require highly skilled specialists to support head teachers and governors.

With increased local autonomy schools and academies are expected to review every aspect of their operations and legacy organisational structures.

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.

They find that not only do greater accountability, autonomy, and choice (in various configurations) in a country's school system boost student achievement, they also boost noncognitive skills and increase equity (breaking the link between student achievement and socioeconomic status).

Conversion schools face different challenges; many have realized autonomy from state regulations, but some continue to struggle to resolve local political and administrative situations (various state restrictions still exist in many cases and may be increasing in some states).

Increased autonomy has seen greater work intensi cation and accountability for both school leaders and teachers.

In recent years we have seen a welcome increase in schools» budgets, but of course without ring - fenced funding and an increasing level of autonomy in schools, it is less clear how this money is actually being spent.

A state shall also include, in its application for grant funds, descriptions of: (1) the state's system for certifying and licensing teachers and school leaders, and (2) how the SEA will encourage opportunities for increased autonomy for teachers and school leaders.

Reforms targeting governance and funding policies were also included in the analysis, such as the increase in the number of academies in England as part of moves to gives schools greater autonomy.

In - app reporting features ease burden on time - constrained district IT staff, increase teacher autonomy and boost visibility into school and student data

It increased funding to school districts with a larger number of disadvantaged students by financially weighting those students according to need, simplified current byzantine school finance regulations, and gave school districts more autonomy over finances.

The teacher turnover rate also nearly doubled, apparently because schools had greater autonomy over personnel and because of the increase in educators from alternative preparation programs such as Teach for America.

The ranking affected the degree of autonomy schools had in spending public funds: schools classified in the two lowest categories had to develop improvement plans and were subject to increased oversight by the government.

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

Charter schools are publicly funded, independently operated schools that are allowed to operate with more autonomy than traditional public schools in exchange for increased accountability.

The basic concept of charter schools is that they exercise increased autonomy in return for clear and specific accountability.

Rather, she said, they are a way for schools to achieve «increased autonomy — to get the handcuffs off teachers and parents.»

The history of CPE 1 is a critical part of the longer, ongoing struggle for increased autonomy in public schools, and the lessons learned in its birth back in the 1970's were carried by educational visionaries to the

Offer school transformation packages to attract effective principals with financial incentives, specific district supports, and increased autonomy.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

The flexibility and autonomy offered to the COP schools has resulted in an increase in the number of students and the range of disabilities represented in the participating schools:

They are unique in the nation in that they have autonomy over budget, staffing, governance, curriculum and assessment, and the school calendar to provide increased flexibility to organize schools and staffing to best meet students» needs, while operating within the economy of scale of a large urban public school district.

The basic concept of charter schools is that they exercise increased autonomy in return for this accountability.

Sixteen school districts have already queued up to develop 22 Readiness Schools, proof that there is a significant appetite for increased autonomy and innovation in cities and towns around the state.

Over the course of a decade, multiple superintendents and board members have enjoyed strong backing to give parents freedom to choose outside their neighborhood schools, to partner with charter schools, and to increase autonomy for district - run schools.

«Our study shows that as charter schools are given more programmatic autonomy over special education services and access to state and federal special education funds, the special education student population increases at those schools and we see very innovative and creative delivery models emerge,» Plate asserted.

Charter schools operate with greater autonomy and flexibility in exchange for increased accountability.

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.