Sentences with phrase «principals much autonomy»

Thongnopnua added that this traditional approach to funding does not account for the diversity of students across the county or give principals much autonomy to help students succeed.

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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.

But it remains to be seen just how much autonomy school principals in the more autonomous «laboratory schools» will really have and which provisions of the teachers» contract a school can really choose to ignore.

Some DPS board members have expressed concern about principal leadership at innovation schools, fearing what happens when a leader given so much more autonomy exits a school.

Daniel became principal of an elementary school in a medium - size suburban district that gives its schools much autonomy over curriculum and management.

Education Week's Alyson Klein reports that Secretary DeVos told a gathering of secondary school principals on September 25 «that she wants to cut the federal red tape that she thinks is holding them back from serving students to the best extent possible,» and that «she'll encourage state and district leaders to give them as much autonomy as possible.»