Sentences with phrase «of education bureaucracy»

Several weeks ago Governor Cuomo said that improving education is thwarted by the monopoly of the education bureaucracy.
Discussions about public funding (they all are publicly funded), parent and community involvement (a must) and Department of Education bureaucracy (usually a detriment to quick action and cheaper materials) was enlightening.
Mr. Cuomo saw it differently, saying that New York will set an example for other states with an overhaul of education bureaucracy.
«This budget demonstrates fiscal discipline and proposes real reforms that puts students ahead of the education bureaucracy and leverages major investment to spur private sector growth.

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.
The efforts of the education and welfare bureaucracies often seemed directed toward their own perpetuation more than toward meeting the needs of the populations they were created to serve.
Included are varied specifics such as: economic theory; psychiatry; systems analysis; the growth of bureaucracies; the science of management; the development of the democratic ideal; striving for universal education; personalism (fulfilling the earlier promise of the Enlightenment); the rise and fall of colonialism; and modem liberation movements.
Forlorn, almost alone, and hardly beckoning is Gerald E. Knoff's The World Sunday School Movement (Seabury, $ 14.50), which does not intend to be more than a history of mainline ecumenical bureaucracies in religious education.
The film shows the students» difficulties being accepted into the mainstream education, the bureaucracy that stymies their teachers and administrators, and the passionate battle of three mothers who believe in their children's rights to a public education.
As I noted above, the first day of kindergarten is an important marker for our educational bureaucracies — that's the day, in most states, when «early childhood» officially comes to an end and the public becomes legally responsible for every child's education and skill development.
• revising the Code of Practice for early education to increase flexibility and reduce bureaucracy, and
That said, I believe our country's education bureaucracy has become calcified and resistant to change — and we are in dire need of change.
At the same time, the Chicago Board of Education and Park District Board are beginning high - level negotiations to resolve the problem and underlying conflict at Clemente and seven other city schools: two bureaucracies competing over the same space with no contract to guide them.
As you'll recall, Cuomo said during his State of the State address that he would be the self - appointed «lobbyist» for public school students this year, taking on what he perceives to be the bloated bureaucracy in the education system.
It's not entirely clear what Spitzer would do as comptroller for education, but he has indicated he would use the office's audit authority over much of the city's bureaucracy in a more activist role.
If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.
If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise...
Iannuzzi says if Cuomo wants to reduce the schools bureaucracy, he should address the State Education Department's denial of some of the federal Race to the Top funds.
These are dynamic countries, pouring huge resources into education and opportunity, not encumbered by the baggage of bureaucracy and a crippling welfare state.
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.
But although Cuomo has railed against he belief that the public education system has grown to become more about protecting the administrative bureaucracy and less about educating kids, the focus of his wrath has been the teachers unions and not — so far, anyway — superintendents, who I'm sure are breathing a sigh of relief.
This year, we are for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing schools every year and how to improve the overall performance of our education system.»
In a statement, Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi said, «The governor's priority is providing education funding based on the number of students it helps, not growing the education bureaucracy to serve the demands of the special interests.
The Governor is insisting that we focus on student achievement rather than funding the education bureaucracy as a measure of success.
If education bureaucracy is the problem then why is the Governor un-relentless in his support of the US Department of Education's Race toeducation bureaucracy is the problem then why is the Governor un-relentless in his support of the US Department of Education's Race toEducation's Race to the Top?
Says state Operations Director Jim Malatras: «The education bureaucracy's mission is to sustain the bureaucracy and the status quo, and therefore it is often the enemy of change.
Educational bureaucracy being replaced by government bureaucracy... by folks with a fundamental lack of understanding of the real reasons for failures in our system of education in this State.
AFTER THE Bloomberg administration repeatedly shifted the Department of Education deck chairs, 120 principals have signed a public letter calling on Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio not to completely upend the bureaucracy again.
Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.
Public employee unions have a huge amount of sway near the heart of the state's bureaucracy, and in 2014, they worked against the governor who had angered their members with his tough negotiations on labor contracts and his support for pension and education reforms.
«State government in Albany tends to focus on the bureaucracy of education.
The governor, who has attacked components of the public school system as an «education bureaucracy» that must be broken, instead stuck to the positive in this year's State of the State address.
And there's a larger philosophical issue at stake: Moskowitz is a constant critic of the Department of Education and its schools, and has sought to define her network in total opposition to the hulking bureaucracy of the DOE.
Common Core effectively destroys local control of our schools, transferring community educational initiatives to the vast and faceless federal bureaucracy, shifting yet more power from the local community to Washington so that it can impose continental control over the education of our nation's children.
Professor José Mariano Gago, Portugal's minister for science, technology, and higher education, spoke about valuing science over bureaucracy and the importance of stability for creating important science projects.
The topic was the future of higher education in Europe, and the castle — a majestic but confusing maze of structures that inspired Franz Kafka's classic novel about modern alienation and bureaucracy — served as a metaphor for the Kafkaesque labyrinth facing students who want to transfer degrees or credits between colleges in different European nations.
According to the education minister when the bill was passed, Maria Chiara Carrozza, building works are hampered by excess bureaucracy in awarding contracts and a lack of clarity on which layer of government is responsible.
The article by Jane Hannaway and Shannon McKay of the Urban Institute showed how mandatory testing can serve as a lever to create structural change in an otherwise entrenched education bureaucracy.
In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.
In about 120 seconds, Benjamin set the stage for 120 minutes of heartfelt denunciations of outcomes - based education, federal education programs, and school bureaucracies.
$ 96 billion just to keep our education bureaucracy immune from the painful effects of the recession that almost everyone else in America has had to cope with.
State Comptroller John Sharp of Texas, who has made a reputation of searching for ways to twist money out of bloated state agencies and programs, has turned his magnifying glass on one of the Lone Star State's biggest bureaucracies — the Texas Education Agency.
Whereas the public school bureaucracy is capable of incremental change at most, education entrepreneurs see beyond long - established barriers and disrupt the status quo.
America's deeply conservative public education system is striking back at this disruptive innovation, which shifts power from producers to consumers; demonstrates that more can be done with less at the school level; and moves control of resources from central bureaucracies to autonomous schools.
Paige particularly deplores «mandated education courses, unpaid student teaching, and the hoops and hurdles of the state certification bureaucracy
There are more such obstacles than one might think, and every one of them will prove hard to overcome, because they are deeply carved into our traditional K — 12 system and regarded as valuable protections or benefits by education's innumerable factions, bureaucracies, and interest groups.
Strong chapters on school desegregation, bilingual education, education for the disabled, and school finance all support Davies's argument that «in the 1970s, reform often emanated from... within the federal bureaucracy, from the lower federal courts, and through the energetic efforts of congressional staffers, lobbyists, and public interest law firms.»
For more than a generation he was known as the Department of Education's data - collection guru, the person inside the bureaucracy who understood best what information to collect and how to collect it.
But business is not hampered by the bureaucracy of education, and it ought to jump on new technology and newer learning methodologies — specifically micro learning.
But the education bureaucracy did not roll over, and in the fall of 1999 the U.S. Department of Education released a list of ten recommended math programs, designated as «exemplary» or «promising,» all of them aligned with the NCTM standards and based on texts fundeeducation bureaucracy did not roll over, and in the fall of 1999 the U.S. Department of Education released a list of ten recommended math programs, designated as «exemplary» or «promising,» all of them aligned with the NCTM standards and based on texts fundeEducation released a list of ten recommended math programs, designated as «exemplary» or «promising,» all of them aligned with the NCTM standards and based on texts funded by NSF.
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