Sentences with phrase «of school district bureaucracies»

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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.

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.

Despite a growing understanding of the link between good nutrition and the ability to learn, many school districts feel bound by budgets and bureaucracy to stick with packaged, processed, heat - and - serve food.

Teachers who want to do professionally creative things, who've been limited by the stifling nature of large bureaucracy in some school districts, can find a good fit in charter schools.

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Throughout the spring, VOISE designers have been up to their laptops in the typical challenges of opening a new school in a large urban district: community outreach, teacher recruitment, student enrollment, fundraising, and a bit of bureaucracy, to boot.

The major planks of Klein's reforms are well known: breaking much of the old local district bureaucracy, empowering principals and creating a new principal training center, issuing report cards for schools, delivering autonomy and innovation zones for experimental schools, and keeping more of the city's problematic teachers out of its schools.

James Merriman from the New York City Charter School Center recently pleaded with charter operators to acknowledge the unique agreement into which charters entered: «Charter schools are free from a lot of the bureaucracy that entangles district schools.

Public charter schools are able to operate with increased flexibility as a result of operating outside of district bureaucracies.

Lacking knowledge in the field, the former entertainment lawyer set out to school herself in learning theory and instruction, as well as the workings of the bureaucracy in the 65,000 - student district, for insight into how best to proceed.

The inability of the school system to develop an adequate management system or to spend special - education dollars effectively deepened the perception that the district was a dysfunctional bureaucracy.

The Cresap report was a stinging critique of the school district - its organization, its culture, and in many cases the competence of individuals in its bureaucracy.

The lesson of the Cleveland story is that any serious effort to strengthen school communities must involve a significant redistribution of the economic and governing powers that are currently held in the upper reaches of district bureaucracies.

Most school districts are either too small or too large — too small to afford the kind of administrative supports they need, or too large for a public bureaucracy to remain easily governable and accountable.

Later, Jewell groused that achievement school districts represent little more than a «new layer of bureaucracy that lacks the accountability to ensure public dollars are being spent effectively.»

Put more money into the classroom and spend less on bureaucracy by merging redundant school districts and shining a spotlight on waste, unfunded mandates and programs that don't serve the goal of stronger student achievement.

Did you know that there are almost 700 school districts — and as many separate bureaucracies — in our state, and that more than a quarter of them serve fewer than 1,000 students?

Unencumbered by union contracts, long - standing district bureaucracy and many of the rules most schools must follow, they could try things that had never been done.

Some are former district staff frustrated with the bureaucracy and lack of autonomy, some are free marketers who philosophically believe (absent a whole ton of research) that the market will rescue schools, some are pro union, some anti union, some want a new union, some are well intentioned and fail, some are less well intentioned and succeed, and there is a wide range within.

Less than half of that reached the schools though — the rest went to central bureaucracy — and the district couldn't pull its students out of a persistent, poverty - driven cycle of academic failure.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

The truth is, what the Grand Canyon would really prefer is for charter schools to be district clones — with massive bureaucracies and reams of red tape to match.

As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.

Chiefs can set priorities for districts and schools, strengthen the hands of local leaders who want to make a dramatic difference in their schools, and limit distractions emanating from the legislature and state bureaucracy.

In the state bureaucracy, every public school has a unique, 14 - digit California Department of Education - assigned County - District - School (CDS) code, which is used to report Average Daily Attendance, disburse funding, and report on student outschool has a unique, 14 - digit California Department of Education - assigned County - District - School (CDS) code, which is used to report Average Daily Attendance, disburse funding, and report on student outSchool (CDS) code, which is used to report Average Daily Attendance, disburse funding, and report on student outcomes.

He is attempting to replicate the success of charter schools by freeing up to 200 district schools from the straitjackets of the union contract and city bureaucracy.

The fact that the district currently has no plans to revamp its central bureaucracy or address inefficiencies in operations outside of whatever changes Knudsen plans to make, also points to the reality that state education departments — especially Pennsylvania's — are just ill - equipped to handle school or district takeovers.

When I served as president of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the nation, I witnessed first - hand too many educators who were tired of hearing from a bureaucracy that was comfortable with low expectaSchool District, the second largest school district in the nation, I witnessed first - hand too many educators who were tired of hearing from a bureaucracy that was comfortable with low expecDistrict, the second largest school district in the nation, I witnessed first - hand too many educators who were tired of hearing from a bureaucracy that was comfortable with low expectaschool district in the nation, I witnessed first - hand too many educators who were tired of hearing from a bureaucracy that was comfortable with low expecdistrict in the nation, I witnessed first - hand too many educators who were tired of hearing from a bureaucracy that was comfortable with low expectations.

The problem lies not with the amount of money flowing into school districts, but in how antiquated practices, state laws and inefficient bureaucracies trap funding that should be used in improving instruction and curricula.

The problems most often mentioned by teachers and principals in the largest districts were those that originated outside their schools: scarce resources and changes imposed by an out - of - touch bureaucracy.

This issue takes a look at schools and school districts that break the mold — and, in so doing, have torn down walls of bureaucracy and broken through barriers to student achievement.

Fifty years ago, Michigan began an experiment by legislatively creating a new layer of public school bureaucracy: intermediate school districts.

School districts in many other states operate without this extra layer of support and the inevitable bureaucracy that comes along with it.

School governance in the «all - charter district» will now be up «to dozens of independent school operators» unencumbered by the «bureaucracy» of democratic coSchool governance in the «all - charter district» will now be up «to dozens of independent school operators» unencumbered by the «bureaucracy» of democratic coschool operators» unencumbered by the «bureaucracy» of democratic control.

For the past 20 years, charter public schools have contributed to the success of districts, promoting innovation, and eliminating the bureaucracy that prevents sustainable progress.

A district's plan: Hillsborough County Superintendent Jeff Eakins» reorganization of the school district calls for cutting 838 district jobs, reducing the district's number of administrative areas from eight to five, and creating a bureaucracy to support 49 struggling schools.

She closes her book by suggesting that school districts with sclerotic bureaucracies and inflexible collective - bargaining agreements are inherently incapable of educational excellence for low - income children.

«But I don't appreciate more bureaucracy and more mandate requirements of charter schools than district schools,» Frank said this week.