Sentences with phrase «local educator control»

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By setting high, clear learning goals and giving teachers and local officials full control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.

Colorado educators and policymakers are grappling with the potential implications of a recent state supreme court ruling on charter schools that highlights tensions between state and local control.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

CCSSI emphasizes that state participation remains voluntary, that local educators will retain control over instructional materials, and that the federal government will not gain access to information on individual students.

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

I've come to believe that «local control,» embodied by a sense of deference to families, neighborhoods, and educators, respects the intricacies of public schooling, the particular histories of communities, and the wisdom of time - tested practices.

On a national scale, educators in more than 15 school districts have successfully declared their independence from the state and national unions» control of their local association.

School superintendent Joseph Graves, in South Dakota, warns educators that they might lose more local control in schools than they think if national standards become a reality across states.

ESSA champions have «long argued» the law would «swing the pendulum of control back to the states and, by doing so, unleash the innovative potential of local leaders,» writes educator Sean Worley in The 74.

ESSA «was supposed to unleash a wave of innovation by getting Uncle Sam off the backs of state and local educators and restoring local control,» says Education Post Executive Director Peter Cunningham in US News & World Report.

In sum, they amount to less than a full sentence vow to replace Common Core «with better standards and curriculum developed by New York educators, with feedback and input from local teachers and parents, and greater control at the district level.»

An immediate end to the current UFT support for mayoral control and its replacement by a democratic system of local governance run by communities, parents, and educators.

I appreciate your strong support of students, educators, and public education in Tennessee, especially your commitment to local control of public education.

Evaluation designs are influenced by factors such as the characteristics of local school districts, laws governing charter school autonomy, and a state's history for local control and collective bargaining agreements related to educator evaluation.

While educators and policymakers agree that multiple measures over multiple years are the best way to gauge student, school, and district performance, the first - year SBAC results provide an important baseline for assessing implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

An organization ostensibly representing educators opted to back up school boards rather than the more local control of an individual's choice.

This guide, Leveraging Summer for Student Success, shows how significant changes in California school financing and accountability systems under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) are right now providing educators, school leaders and communities a new opportunity to reinvent and reinvest in summer learning programs.

State and local educators don't need more top - down control from Washington.

As they continue to implement the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), California educators find themselves struggling to communicate district plans to parents, teachers, and other members of the

To help educators become that trusted voice, ASCD's next issue of Policy Points, to be released in the coming weeks, dispels those aforementioned Common Core myths, addressing widespread questions about federal involvement and local control of schools as well as other misunderstandings related to the standards» relationship to curriculum, their cost to states, student privacy, and more.

At the meeting of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) meeting on August 6, 2015, the five - member board voted unanimously to select former State Board of Education member and long - time educator, Dr. Carl A. Cohn, to serve as the first executive director of the recently - formed statewide agency tasked with advising and assisting student achievement across the state via the new Local Control and Accountability Plans.

The Our City Our Schools coalition is made up of parents, educators, community members and students all fighting for local control of the Philadelphia schools and the end to the state - controlled School Reform Commission.

We must seize upon the opportunity presented by Gov. Brown's commitment and begin working earnestly on designing a school finance system that removes the red tape and «command and control» at the state level and allows educators to meet the needs of their local students.

Politically, local - control funding is an investment in rebuilding capacity and trust in schools and in the ability of local citizens and educators.

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