Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give
principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.
Give principals the tools they need to succeed: Give
principals control over school budgets and staffing decisions — and hold them accountable for success.
Not exact matches
While none of the bills specifically address overtime pay for
school engineers, one centered on giving
principals more
control over school staff, including maintenance workers.
Although the food service director likely has no
control over the cafeteria time allotment, he / she might be able to point to other barriers that make lengthening the lunch difficult (ratio of students: cafeteria size etc., budget for labor) 6) Schedule a meeting with the
school principal and share your concerns and ask how you might help to arrive at a solution.
This limbo was largely the result of a deal that the Bloomberg administration struck with the teachers» union to give
principals more
control over who worked in their
schools.
Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City
schools, announced in August of this year that he is implementing the «My Galaxy» computer - driven system, which will enable
principals to assume
control over their
school budgets.
In short, although
principals are supposed to be the CEOs of their
schools, they have little
control over their management teams.
What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding
schools and allowing
principals to have more
control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and
control over their budgets.
The Acer BYOD Education Project is a considerable investment in helping
principals transition from the current problems of «Bring Your Own Disaster» — where there is little
control over what devices are being brought into
school IT environments — to Bring Your Own Designated Device.
Principals act as their school's instructional leader, in stark contrast to district schools, where principals, though accountable for school outcomes, have limited control over what's being taugh
Principals act as their
school's instructional leader, in stark contrast to district
schools, where
principals, though accountable for school outcomes, have limited control over what's being taugh
principals, though accountable for
school outcomes, have limited
control over what's being taught and how.
Although
schools and districts have quite a bit of
control over these things, there's still a long time lag, and it will be hard for a superintendent or
principal to show any immediate improvements.
In New Zealand,
schools are self - managing and the
principals have a great deal of
control over their own time... in theory they decide how much time they spend on their own development and when.
In 1995, the Illinois legislature gave Mayor Daley
control over the system, and in the years since, he has sought improvement through balancing budgets, reducing waste, firing bad
principals and founding charter
schools.
Following the lead of
school districts in New York City, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, Recovery District superintendent Paul Vallas aims to give
principals authority to hire their staff, as well as
control over their budgets, according to The Times - Picayune.
Principals have had
control over staffing at their
schools since 2005, when the district officially adopted «mutual consent» hiring.
Their primary goal was to get direct parental
control over choosing a
principal, and change teacher contracts so the
principal would have full
control over hiring and firing all employees,
school spending and curriculum.
In particular, according to the report,
principals, teachers and parents cited as positives greater
control over how and when they hire, the ability to opt out of direct teacher placements by the district and the use of one - year contracts to ensure new hires are a good fit with the
school's mission.
Ultimately, the goals are to attract high - quality teachers, allow
principals more
control over school budgets, promote faster growth for our best
schools and expand access for all students to attend an excellent
school.
The evil corporate education reformers target yet another local elementary
school for closure and takeover through a bizarre scheme that would have allowed a public
school principal to resign his position as a public servant, become president of his own private company and then take
over control of both his old
school and the new
school.
Education Minister Christopher Pyne has been committed to making public
schools in Australia independent, saying the more
control a
principal has
over a
school the better that
school performs.
This gives K12 Inc. tremendous
control over almost every aspect of their
schools including curriculum, hiring of teachers and
principals, and evaluating student performance.