Sentences with phrase «micromanage school»

That body doesn't micromanage the school; instead, it monitors academic performance, governance, and the use of public funds.

Should the Supreme Court rule that disparate impact analysis violates the Equal Protection clause, OCR's attempts to micromanage school discipline and finance should come to a quick close.

Sage policy makers have recognized that trying to micromanage school and district «inputs» is a waste of time.

When parents feel that they are micromanaging the school and care environments in order to maintain stability for their child, a higher level of support and intervention may be needed.

And fourth, the two consortia now building new Common Core assessments should take pains not to cross the Rubicon into micromanaging schools» curricular and instructional decisions.

And we certainly agree that Washington typically does more harm than good when it tries to micromanage schools from the Potomac.

He eschews micromanaging school leaders and instead works alongside them to help them meet the goals of the district's long - range plan and to improve teacher performance in their schools.

To be sure, plenty of impulses to micromanage the schools are still apparent.

Tillman dismissed his concerns, effectively saying that he didn't want to micromanage the schools and that many would do the background checks anyway.

Not exact matches

Back in 2009, when some right wing commentators decried the pending school food reform legislation as «nanny state» micromanaging, my answer was, «Hello?

Congress, in its infinite wisdom, is again using the appropriations process to micromanage nutrition standards for school meals and the WIC program, against the advice of the Institute of Medicine and other health experts.

But on the larger question of local control... You say:» If you believe that school food professionals at the district level a) know what they're doing and b) have the kids wellness at heart, then why do they need to be micromanaged through regulation?»

He added that school board members tended to micromanage superintendents, often seeking services and favors specifically for their neighborhoods.

But «just right» policies — strong accountability, lots of operational autonomy, fair funding, no micromanaging — tend to be embraced by charter school realists in the center of the political spectrum.

In fact, after sitting through an all - day board training session conducted by a representative from our state school board association and listening to the admonition not to micromanage in what must have been ten different languages, I blurted, «This district has followed your micromanagement advice for years and has let the educators run the show.

The state does not have to micromanage what happens in each of its schools.

Judges should therefore look for rules that curtail the worst abuses rather than try to micromanage public schools.

The Obama administration has used its Race to the Top program and unprecedented, far - reaching conditions for states seeking «waivers» from the No Child Left Behind Act's most destructive requirements as excuses to micromanage what states are doing on teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, and much else.

Even as Republicans murmur about getting Uncle Sam out of K — 12 education — and thus out of the education - reform business — altogether, Democrats are torn between featherbedding their union pals and micromanaging the nation» s schools from thousands of miles away.

«Local leaders, not us, know their children and communities best — to try to micromanage 100,000 schools from Washington would be the height of arrogance,» he said.

Charters had much more operational freedom than traditional schools because they weren't smothered by the micromanaging rules and regulations of the bureaucracy and union contract.

But trying to micromanage 100,000 schools from Washington is precisely what Duncan has been doing.

At the same time, they worry when regulators cloak their impulse to micromanage in the language of «accountability,» since they're also concerned that schools maintain true operational freedom and the ability to innovate.

In this way, the federal government can be proactive without micromanaging the budgeting processes of myriad local school districts.

The ESEA - reauthorization bill released by Senate HELP committee Chairman Tom Harkin this week is advertised as getting «the federal government out of the business of «micromanaging» schools»» and offering states significant «flexibility.»

But it would examine each case based on its own facts, rather than using the fig leaf of «civil rights» as an excuse for Washington to micromanage America's 100,000 public schools.

I got the sense that the Community Schools initiative, much like PROSE, is a restricted and micromanaged venture, where growth and innovation are discussed, but not allowed to breathe.

If Ross was as surprised as we were to read that school board members had the audacity to say that they had a right to micromanage the system, he will come to the conclusion that the state can no longer sit back and let the status quo prevail.

Julio César Contreras, a former teacher and principal, eschews micromanaging the principals he supervises in the Tulsa, Okla., school district.

Since none of the school board members has a Superintendent's License, or has served as principal of a major high school, we wonder what qualifications any of them has to micromanage.

My school's administrators trust teachers to use our meeting time to serve our students, and they don't micromanage us with top - down agendas.

Under the doctrine, which holds that principals are most able to identify and provide what their schools need if they are not micromanaged by supervisors who do not work there, the city released principals from some mandates in exchange for greater accountability for student performance.

Schools can not reform themselves until central does their business differently and stops micromanaging them.

The Obama administration's unprecedented role in dictating teacher - evaluation rules to states has resulted in a push to craft statewide systems that micromanage how every school system evaluates every public - school teacher.

He claimed that schools would not need to be micromanaged and would receive adequate funding if we would just do our job.

The Court rejected the argument that only local school districts could provide education services, and stated that it is not their responsibility to «micromanage» education.

Many parents lament lending them their Nook Tablet or iPad, and this is the perfect device for kids to bring to school with them and cost effective enough so you're not anxiously micromanaging them when they use it.