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.
Not exact matches
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 to
education bureaucracy is the problem then why is the Governor un-relentless in his support
of the US Department
of Education's Race to
Education'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 funde
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 funde
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 funded by NSF.