Sentences with phrase «local public school bureaucracies»

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.

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Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

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.

To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama / Duncan Education Department, advocate a «nationalized curriculum» that would «undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level» and «transfer control to an elephantine, inside - the - Beltway bureaucracy.»

The only material difference between charter and traditional public schools is that the latter are not part of the local school - governance bureaucracy, whether a school board, a mayor or even a state - appointed superintendent.

Proponents say charter schools allow local educators to escape the smothering bureaucracy that entangles other public schools and to find creative solutions that help struggling students.

State departments / bureaucracies write guidance and policy to govern local public schools.

«Assessment systems need to make public schools accountable to parents, students and the local community rather than to distant government bureaucracies,» the report concludes.