Sentences with phrase «of school bureaucrats»

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«If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book.

At the hands of bureaucrats, bosses, and judges, Christian merchants, universities, schools, hospitals, charities, campus fellowships, students, public officials, employees, and citizens have been fired, fined, shut down, threatened with a loss of accreditation, and evicted for living out traditional convictions about marriage and sexuality.

Schools with the best facilities and the highest «paid teachers often fail because they are ultimately accountable to bureaucrats for regulatory compliance, instead of to parents for results.

The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

When schools are run by government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.

Other school - reform advocates accused bureaucrats of caving to political pressure as union - aligned Assembly Democrats vowed to block efforts to raise or repeal the cap on the number of charters the state allows.

From School Choice (Vouchers), Cutting down on red - tape Bureaucrats, Tax Cuts, to strong social and family values as Pro-Life & against the so - called redefinition of Marriage.

On Astorino's Facebook page, he referenced the libertarian argument against the Common Core, writing: «I believe in local control of our local schools and not control by faceless state and federal bureaucrats.»

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

New York simply can not afford to return the schools to the union bosses and bureaucrats who ran the system before Mr. Bloomberg took charge of it.

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

With dark, dour subject matter forcing possible rewrite by the school bureaucrats, a former student who would rather see it unproduced than see it altered to blunt its impact, and a meddling father who insists his son focus on his future instead of folly, Ms. Sinclair is going to have a heck of a time keeping it, as well as her own reputation, intact to the end.

Whereas government - run schools are primarily accountable to elected school boards and unelected state education bureaucrats, private education providers are accountable directly to parents, and the same market forces that place competitive pressure on other kinds of businesses operate on these education providers as well.

Speaking on BBC news, Cameron said that he wanted to put the power in the hands of «the head teacher and the teachers rather than the bureaucrats», saying that that is the «vision for every great school».

It's hard to imagine, then, that the threat of a parent trigger at a single school is going to force school board members, district bureaucrats, or union officials to the bargaining table.

The easiest thing in the world is for politicians or bureaucrats to dream up arbitrary, impressive - sounding targets for schools; after all, they don't have to do any of the work, and they're rarely held responsible for hitting the results.

Rather than making state bureaucrats solely responsible for holding hundreds or thousands of schools to account, we can share this responsibility with those with the greatest stake in the final outcome: parents and other adult caregivers.

And whether I'm wearing my bureaucrat hat or my think - tank hat, I make sure to devote some of my energy to trying to preserve inner - city faith - based schools serving low - income kids.

Unless you still believe in holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.

There will be many opportunities with vouchers, and teachers will get a great deal more satisfaction out of teaching in a school that is serving their customers than in serving the bureaucrats who run our government schools now.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

Whose interests are being looked after here — those of troublemakers or serious learners, of government bureaucrats or effective school leaders, of parents seeking safe learning environments for their children — or, just maybe, of those who want to besmirch and ultimately diminish D.C.'s burgeoning charter sector?

Notably, the quality reviews were not conducted by bureaucrats in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, but by the state's network of «teacher leaders,» two from each school, chosen by the LDOE.

In 1988, when Ray Budde, a former assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, suggested that teachers bypass bureaucrats by forming their own schools, he was wise to apply the word «charter» to his concept.

The Chancellor's pledge to make every school in England into an academy shows a continued effort to place education into the hands of head teachers and teachers rather than bureaucrats, despite the heavy distraction of the European referendum.

However, they are much more than bureaucrats there to tick boxes; they are essential to drive change, identify opportunities and set a vision of where their school is going.

In fact, that paper deluge is one of the less - appreciated fault lines in schooling — the one that divides educators and bureaucrats.

This is a breathtaking expansion of federal power into one of the most sensitive aspects of American schooling, and substitutes the judgment of federal bureaucrats for local educators and officials.

Some of these folks are simply bureaucrats — one - time district officials who now find themselves working in charter school authorizing shops or state policy offices.

Three decades of experimentation with school choice demonstrate that making it work requires careful attention to such tasks as ensuring that parents have good information about school quality and suitable transportation — responsibilities that skeptical local bureaucrats may dodge.

But it's also impossible to legitimately debate what the right level of public school funding should be when bureaucrats misinform the public about what public school funding currently is.

• None of us should think that most bureaucrats and school personnel in Illinois» public education industry want to see more good charters: Those schools, like many parochial and other privately run schools, are thriving proof that when schools have to excel to stay in business, many of them will... find ways to excel.

Public - school officials, like all government bureaucrats, primarily engage in the worst kind of spending: They spend other people's money on children who are not their own.

So it comes as a surprise when he says, without hesitating, that he's glad a bunch of bureaucrats have come down from the state capital to seize power from the school board.

3) «School choice realists» like us, who want to empower parents to make decisions about their own kids» education, but are skeptical about the effectiveness of distant bureaucrats.

Indeed, from the standpoint of many parents, having your child reduced to a decimal point in a state accountability formula used by bureaucrats to judge your school is problematic.

Finally I thought that NJDOE bureaucrats were going to provide «clean» and useful comparisons of similar schools within the state.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in it.

Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded school board or school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and built from an economic view point, not an educational one.

That is a stunning statement because it is an admission that public school has been reduced to test preparation and that the bureaucrats in the NJDOE see test preparation as the hallmark of «thorough and efficient» education.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

Education funding belongs to children, not bureaucrats — so allow more of it to follow the students into their classrooms when they attend charter schools.

Education bureaucrats, pundits, business profiteers, and policymakers dispense fraudulent claims about how the performance of teachers, school administrators, students, higher education faculty, and parents are causing economic Armageddon for the United States.

A Freedom of Information request filed by the NY Post revealed that the DOE «employs at least 114 bureaucrats and «coaches» — making a combined $ 12.7 million a year and rising — to run Mayor de Blasio's stumbling Renewal program to fix failing schools.»

In fact, a student's high school GPA is generally a more accurate predictor of first year college success and completion, yet bureaucrats and some school administrators claim PARCC will provide better information than the SAT or GPA for New Jersey's public school children and parents.

Some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats to parents and teachers.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

«Unfortunately, too many bureaucrats refuse to free urban minority youth from the prison of these failing schools,» Holtz said.

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