Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving
power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.
Not exact matches
They argue that another one of the defendants, Peter Galbraith Kelly of Competitive
Power Ventures,
paid off Percoco by hiring Percoco's wife as a
teacher in exchange for $ 286,596
over three years.
Elite tenure, for the top 10 — 25 %, would confer status to the deserving, open doors to
paid instructional career opportunities, and give
power over future decisions to top
teachers who would be motivated to maintain a high standard.
The government argues academies drive up standards by putting more
power in the hands of head
teachers over pay, length of the school day and term times.
«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals
power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark
pay - for - performance
teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.
Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening
teacher union
power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like
pay - for - performance and
teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.