Sentences with phrase «school autonomy generally»

There are also questions about regulations accompanying scholarship - granting organizations and school autonomy generally.

Not exact matches

Adonis also encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities.

Already, some cities are finding political advantage in creating «hybrid» or «partnership» schools that have the full autonomy of a charter school but operate on contract with districts within district - provided buildings, generally created by state legislation.

The mayor has generally distanced himself from education issues, and Boston's best - known school reform consists of «pilot» schools, which have more than usual autonomy but are still subject to the district's education - crushing collective bargaining agreement.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Generally, school autonomy seems to have a positive impact — but only when schools are given extensive decision - making powers over the purchase of supplies, the hiring and rewarding of teachers, and the choosing of instructional methods.

Pilot schools aren't generally the model favored by the teachers union, notes LAUSD's Rachel Bonkovsky, who is helping to oversee implementation of the various autonomy models.

So it seems that authorizers are generally unwilling to close a school that is failing to comply with federal or state law, but they are also unwilling to require the school to make changes to its special education program, presumably because the authorizers see this as infringement on charter autonomy.

The belief has been that smaller, specialized schools — known generally as charter schools — whose principals are given a great deal of autonomy, will give parents and children a great deal of choice and that they should replace the large, amorphous, all - purpose public schools that, in any case, haven't been doing a good job.

The curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities.

Self - directedness might be a particularly vexing learning outcome for many law schools, given that the first year is generally a required curriculum (in which students get to assert limited autonomy or self - directedness).