Sentences with phrase «more local flexibility»

Overall, however, the newest reauthorization of the Perkins law enables more local flexibility than previous versions.

Furthermore, junior doctors» contract, the New Deal, and the European Working Time Directive must be renegotiated to provide more local flexibility when designing staff rotas in hospitals.

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A well - functioning local - currency bond market allows a government much more economic policy flexibility than can be experienced when tied to foreign currency borrowing.

The plan is to devolve powers from Whitehall, giving local authorities more freedom and flexibility in the way they collect and spend money in their areas - but will it work?

«Lawmakers have substantially increased funding support for our K - 12 schools, boosted pay for our best teachers, and given local schools more flexibility and freedom.

Local governments, he explained to WBFO, have more flexibility with CHIPS money.

Councilman Robert Ghosio said the code change would «allow more flexibility» for local developers to turn a profit and entice them to build in Southold Town.

• Voters appeared ready to approve a referendum that would allow the state to create a 250 - acre land bank in the Adirondacks and the Catskills while giving local communities more flexibility in making infrastructure improvements.

However, the underlying reasons for conversion are the same: more opportunity to realise better educational outcomes, independence from a local authority, greater flexibility in the organisation of the school and how it chooses to spend its funding.

Moreover, states and local districts ought to be given more flexibility in deciding how to spend federal funds designated for technical assistance.

In addition, the law block - granted several state and local funding streams, giving the board much more flexibility to fund its initiatives.

However, the consultation suggests that this flexibility will no longer be available to local authorities, making it even more difficult to provide children with the support they need.

The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight approved a bill last week that would give local governments more flexibility in using federal dollars.

Given more flexibility to determine the content, length, and administration of assessments, states could still achieve some of the benefits of collaboration while preserving the ability to respond to local needs and priorities.

It raises the odds that charter schools can retain the freedoms and flexibilities that underpin their success, and it provides families with more choice as they select among charters, a local neighborhood school, and other specialized DCPS options.

California's watershed 2013 Local Control Funding Formula created more spending flexibility and put districts in the driver's seat for deciding how to spend substantial new dollars.

about NSBA Supports Rep. Noem's Legislation Offering More Flexibility for Local School Meal Programs

They are typically outside local collective bargaining agreements and therefore have more flexibility than traditional public schools in staffing, compensation, and scheduling.

These flexibilities can not be found in the statutory text, and in the absence of regulations, states may default back to the status quo and take the less risky path by hewing closely to the statute, rather than pushing for more creative solutions that work better in their local contexts.

Some are expecting that the governor will fully fund the Local Control Funding Formula, which he created in 2013 - 14, that gives school districts more flexibility in spending and allocates more funds to districts with larger numbers of low - income students, English learners, and students who are in foster care.

Now that districts have more flexibility in how they use their resources under the Local Control Funding Formula, «we wanted to seize the moment» to steer the conversation about how to reform education toward community schools, Niebuhr said.

Free schools, with more than 250 already open and more than 150 approved, are new state schools which have the same independence as academies, operating outside the local authority and with greater flexibility over the curriculum and staffing.

Local and state education leaders lobbied Wednesday the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform for more flexibility on how they use state funds.

The LAO's warning also comes as Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders begin negotiations over next year's budget, in which the governor wants to provide more flexibility to local districts on spending decisions.

A state legislative committee tasked with making recommendations to the General Assembly for how to improve public education in North Carolina issued a modest report on Tuesday, proposing more flexibility for local school districts in implementing third grade...

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.

All indications are that when ESEA is finally reauthorized states and local district leaders will get what they say they want: significantly more flexibility.

Local school systems need more flexibility to design a schedule that works for their students.

«One of the most exciting parts of this new law is that states have more flexibility and authority over certain areas of education - from how schools are evaluated to how states support local educators in improving schools that are struggling.

So when the state gave local school districts more flexibility in creating their budgets to serve students more equitably, Olson made sure that attendance figured prominently in his spending plan.

The intent of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) is to give districts more flexibility with their state funding but at the same time to create a new school finance system that recognizes that students with specific demographic factors need greater support to address their academic needs and improve educational outcomes: English Learners, low income students and foster youth.

According to the ISBE ESSA Plan, the vision for IL - EMPOWER is, «to allow the lowest performing schools more flexibility to choose the evidence - based improvement strategies that will work best in their local context.

Chiang's education ideas have centered on better accountability for charters, more education funding and more flexibility at the local level to raise funds, early education, and free community college.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides both significant flexibility and opportunity to state and local education agencies... Read More

We need to give our local districts and schools much more flexibility.

Policies that allow for flexibility, like those now promoted in Brazil, enable local schools to become more relevant to the individuals they serve.

Even with this flexibility, T - TESS's encouragement of more informal observations, the addition of more conferences for those who are appraised, and the requirement that everyone (regardless of whether being appraised in a given year) must complete and implement a Goal - Setting and Professional Development plan will likely present capacity challenges to local districts.

Not only would the LCFF allocate dollars in a more equitable way (with no district receiving less than it received in the 2012 - 13 school year) and allow districts the flexibility to address local needs, but Carranza argues that the LCFF is an important step toward raising the overall level of funding that California directs toward education.

The bottom line is that a virtual education allows me to tailor that classroom experience to the student in front of me — the advanced learner, the child who needs more attention than what's received in a local classroom, the child who needs flexibility to fit a professional sports or entertainment schedule, and the child who simply needs a quiet place to work without the distractions of a classroom.

Hawaii Public Charter Schools were implemented as a system to give more power, autonomy and flexibility to schools at the local level.

In a recent interview with New America Media, Mike Kirst discussed the legal and political history of California's current education finance system and how Governor Jerry Brown's proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) can more equitably allocate state funding to districts and allow them the flexibility they need to meet rising expectations of college - readiness.

NSBA's Deputy Associate Executive Director Lucy Gettman added, «We appreciate that Rep. Noem's legislation includes recommendations from NSBA and school boards across the nation that will continue to support efforts to provide highly nutritious meals to students — but provides schools with more flexibility to meet local needs.»

CEA President Sheila Cohen told PEAC members that more flexibility and autonomy is needed for local districts.

When states, rather than the federal government, lead the development and implementation of academic standards, there is more flexibility for local communities.

And third, ESSA provides more flexibility at the local level for school improvement, requiring evidence - based strategies rather than the specific interventions of private tutoring and school choice that were mandatory for all struggling schools under the NCLB's school improvement grants program.3

Now, if more than 5 percent of parents refuse to have their children take the state SBAC test, SB 175 would take away that flexibility and the control that local boards of education have over their budgets.

Specifically, that local funding truly prioritizes the students with the highest needs, and that increased financial flexibility for districts translates into more intentional and effective programs, strategies, and resources for at - risk students.

DeVos argued, «ESSA was born of a recognition that federal overreach had failed,» and thus she was hoping to see more flexibility and local control in states» plans.

The State School Board's recent decision to eliminate physical education, arts and health courses as core statewide requirements for middle - school students is seen as a way to give local districts more flexibility in designing curriculum, which is a positive development in the context of allowing more local control over education policy.

He advocated increasing investments in education, helping to pass Proposition 30 in 2012 and leading the effort to give local school districts more flexibility to make spending decisions.