Sentences with phrase «local school autonomy»

In the recent Colorado Congress of Parents decision, a Colorado district court took the legal protection of local school autonomy even further.

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But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

«Autonomy doesn't mean that headteachers can run their school free from scrutiny or demanding standards, it means academies can be run without having to second guess advice or interference from local authorities.»

Adonis also encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities.

The NEC also used the occasion to kick against the call for autonomy of local government councils, stating that the ghost of the effects of primary schools left in the hands of the local governments in the past had continued to haunt the teachers, leading to its near - collapse in terms of personnel, funding and infrastructural development.

«The Government has fragmented the school system, removed local democratic accountability and has conferred excessive school autonomy onto a school governance system that it is widely accepted is not fit for purpose.

Lastly, if greater autonomy and decision - making were reserved for the local level, would schools be more responsive to student needs and provide more personalized learning experiences?

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.

«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»

Academies were first introduced under Tony Blair's Labour government back in 2000 as a way to raise standards in schools by taking them away from the control of local authorities and offering more autonomy over finances and day to day school management.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

If so, this could resolve some of the tension between the formal law of state control and the de facto autonomy of local school districts by aligning practice with the formal legal theory of state power.

While the states» nearly unlimited authority has been repeatedly affirmed by the courts, there has been intermittent legal recognition of the de facto autonomy enjoyed by local school boards in the day - to - day operation and management of their schools.

Not only do they create competing local school authorities, but they also open alternative opportunities for the participation in school governance that the courts have proclaimed to be the normative value at the core of local autonomy.

Yet while school boards» capacity to innovate may be greater in practice than it is in theory, they enjoy less autonomy than other local governments.

The autonomy afforded to schools during the period of the education sectors evolution, that included LMS and GM status, led schools to think carefully about their internal capacity to respond to a range of activities previously discharged via the local authority.

«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.

There seems to be some interest in returning more control and autonomy not simply from the federal government to the states, but from states to local communities — so that communities can decide questions like when to close schools, whether to allow charter schools, and how to assign teachers.

And deference to local control and private - school autonomy make it extremely difficult to contemplate the prescription of academic knowledge that must be imparted by all schools that are funded directly (districts and charters) or indirectly (via tax credits, vouchers, and ESAs).

Particularly where there is more autonomy in local decision making, schools facing stronger accountability pressures do better on international math and science exams.

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).

This reduced funding, argued proponents of the bill, could be offset at the district level by employee contributions to health - care and pension programs as well as savings gained by local school districts exercising greater autonomy over spending.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

Issues with autonomy Of course this is not the only case of fraud in academies or schools, but the difference is that the autonomy of an academy means that it is not obliged to notify the local authority.

«We want our schools to retain their local identity and autonomy with enhanced capacity to support continuous improvement and opportunities for development within each of the three Hubs.

to provide an adequate education for all, with local autonomy to go beyond that as individual school districts desire and are able....

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

Over the last 20 years, England didn't abolish its «local education authorities» — Blighty's version of school districts — but it conferred so much autonomy on individual schools and their boards of governors that it essentially marginalized those authorities.

Pilot Schools First launched at 10 LA school sites in 2007 with the support of UTLA and modeled after namesake schools in Boston, the Pilot School model is based on granting local sites autonomy in terms of budget, staffing, governance and currSchools First launched at 10 LA school sites in 2007 with the support of UTLA and modeled after namesake schools in Boston, the Pilot School model is based on granting local sites autonomy in terms of budget, staffing, governance and currischool sites in 2007 with the support of UTLA and modeled after namesake schools in Boston, the Pilot School model is based on granting local sites autonomy in terms of budget, staffing, governance and currschools in Boston, the Pilot School model is based on granting local sites autonomy in terms of budget, staffing, governance and curriSchool model is based on granting local sites autonomy in terms of budget, staffing, governance and curriculum.

A combination of funding pressures, a push by Superintendent John Deasy to find innovative ways raise academic achievement and a desire by local school sites to gain more control has led to a big jump this year in schools adopting new «autonomy» models.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Under new guidelines intended to stimulate innovation and creativity, teachers at the provincial, local, and school levels are beginning to enjoy the autonomy to develop and select textbooks.

Innovation schools are new to Idaho, the result of a law passed in March 2016 that allows school districts to grant schools «flexibility from laws and policies that impede local autonomy, allowing them to be agile, innovative and empowered to adopt to local circumstances.»

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.

The Impact of LEA Status on Special Education in Charter Schools discusses how a charter school's legal status as part of a larger local education agency («LEA») or as its own independent LEA affects the autonomy, funding, and programming of the school.

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.

The influence that these private philanthropists exercise is now being felt in school districts from coast to coast and manifests itself in the policies favored by the donors: the introduction of a corporate model in school administration, merit pay for teachers, giving local schools greater autonomy from their respective districts and the opening of more charter schools.

The following month, teachers at the school voted to institute a series of reforms by becoming a Local Initiative School, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hschool voted to institute a series of reforms by becoming a Local Initiative School, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hSchool, a reform model that allows some autonomy from district policies, such as in hiring.

In return for more autonomy from state and local control, charter schools agree to be held to higher standards of accountability.

There is good evidence internationally to suggest that greater autonomy in the governance and management of local schools has beneficial effects, but restrictive entry requirements and politically compromised central brokering leaves the system vulnerable to variable sponsor quality.

Kathy Riedlinger, chief executive of the Lusher Charter School — which is under local board authority — said the campus doesn't participate in the lottery because the centralized admissions system usurps school autSchool — which is under local board authority — said the campus doesn't participate in the lottery because the centralized admissions system usurps school autschool autonomy.

Schools minister Nick Gibb told Today the proposals were aimed at giving «more autonomy to professionals» who would be freed from «interference from the local authority».

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