Sentences with phrase «local autonomy»

This combination of local autonomy and centralized backing has been key, he said.

The provision strengthens support for local autonomy in managing school administration, budget development, and related operations for school district responsibilities — all important to continuous improvement for student achievement.

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.

There was a close connection between the autonomy of churches and local autonomy generally.

According to state officials, it was designed to support sound educational practice, encourage professional development of education, encourage local autonomy, and provide comparable information across schools.

How does local autonomy on the part of district and school leaders shift the process of systems change?

The provision requires local autonomy in managing school administration, budget development, and related operations that support school district responsibilities for student achievement.

Further, the amendment aims to support provisions strengthening local autonomy in managing school administration, budget development, and related operations that support school district responsibilities for student achievement.

• Combining local autonomy and effective accountability seems to produce the best results.

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.

During the hour - long discussion, the candidate for District 6 (East San Fernando Valley) did as much listening as she did talking, asking teachers about their concerns on issues such as local autonomy and teacher training.

Innovation schools are new to Idaho, the result of a law passed in March 2016 that allows up to ten public schools a year to receive flexibility from laws and policies that impede local autonomy, allowing them to be agile, innovative and empowered to adapt to local circumstances.

The experience of Catholics has not placed the same emphasis on local autonomy as characterized Protestantism during the formative period of the nation.

In keeping with local autonomy, researchers found great variability in teachers» implementation of portfolios, resulting in a wide range of types of work included in the portfolios as well as a wide range of teacher support for the work, all of which would raise validity questions.

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

His People's Action party opportunistically teamed up with local Communists, who helped Lee get elected Prime Minister when the British granted local autonomy in 1959.

For cities across Canada, amalgamation has produced few economies of scale and greatly undermined local autonomy, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.

Mr. Jackson said he would lobby Congress to intervene, but he acknowledged that such a move threatened to upset some of his local supporters, who may be put off by the prospect of subverting local autonomy.

Only among the most sectarian groups (such as Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses) do we find the absence of such functional local autonomy.

The return to a more robust form of federalism would allow for greater local autonomy in establishing and cultivating local forms of culture and self - governance.

Because local autonomy and states rights became largely synonymous with the rights of Southern whites to enslave and, subsequently, segregate Blacks, Protestants committed to humane Christian values turned to the power of the national government to override the autonomy of local communities and states.

Also as among some other peoples, the death of the masterful king was followed by a pagan reaction which was an attempt both to return to ancestral ways and to revive local autonomy.

The SBC decided against such a database in part because its principle of local autonomy means it can not compel individual churches to report any information.

We will need time, for example, to reform our excessively centralised tax system which stifles local autonomy and innovation.

Robert Pape says that the overwhelming reason for «suicide» (homicide) bombers is occupation by a foreign power or desire for local autonomy against a larger state, rather than religion.

Over the past 20 years, successive governments have entered power with promises to decentralise power and enhance local autonomy.

In Addis Ababa, the new rulers drew up a daring national constitution promising local autonomy and economic freedom.

But — and here we have the best argument possible for increased local autonomy instead of less — because of state law, hammered out in back rooms by powerful union interests, local voters were denied their electoral rights.

If local autonomy has been somewhat impeded by the new law - a debatable conclusion - then it could also be argued that this is a self - inflicted wound.

And, despite concerns that one - size - fits - all teacher evaluation models would limit local autonomy, districts continue to have wide discretion even under «statewide» evaluation systems — and that's not entirely a good thing.

Permitting local autonomy with central testing is, as noted above, a successful strategy consistent with international performance evidence.

SLOs are potentially attractive because they can be used in all classrooms, allow local autonomy, and fit well with customized instruction.

Like Duncan, he has generally embraced charter schools, which in some ways epitomize his view of expanding local autonomy and innovation, but are viewed negatively by many teachers unions.

(Some grassroots Tea Partiers have become advocates for solar power, arguing it empowers more local autonomy.)

He stressed local autonomy and decentralization.

It's about local autonomy and respect for the local practice, which is significantly greater than in Western multinationals,» says Macarti.

Each SSLP had extensive local autonomy in terms of the services that were developed, 3 a feature CfC shares with Sure Start.

For instance, the judiciary treated New York State's 1961 reorganization of the New York City Board of Education as akin to an internal restructuring of a branch of state government rather than an infringement on local autonomy.

We would also have to have a good explanation of why we support a «postcode lottery», as local autonomy would come to be seen.

The imperial authorities, after their custom in the provinces, allowed the Sanhedrin to exercise a substantial, though well controlled, measure of local autonomy.

NSBA worked closely with Senator Fischer and Senators Jon Tester (D - MT) and Angus King (I - ME), who co-sponsored the amendment, to assure that S. 1177 includes strong support for local autonomy in managing school administration, budget development and related operations that support school district responsibilities for student achievement.

Therein lies the ultimate argument for federalism and local autonomy: Competition between the jurisdictions allows citizens to escape being captive clients from the centre.

First and foremost, this requires ongoing respect for local autonomy and diversity and for the roles and responsibilities that other orders of government are best placed to perform, whether by virtue of their exclusive constitutional jurisdiction or because they have a comparative advantage in the delivery of programs and policies in particular areas» [3].

Local autonomy will have to yield to functional ecumenism for the sake of faithfulness in pursuing God's will and purpose that justice and peace shall prevail among human beings.