Sentences with phrase «school bureaucracy out»

With the public - school bureaucracy out of the way, powerhouses in the reform movement, such as the Walton and Gates foundations, came calling.

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So local government officials are teaming up with leaders from business, labor, schools, and neighborhood groups to figure out how to shrink the layers of public bureaucracy in Onondaga County.

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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.

Yet — not surprisingly, given the public school monopoly — parents and taxpayers view the public schools as an unresponsive, declining bureaucracy carrying out edicts from distant capitals.

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.

Increasingly, parents and taxpayers view the public schools as an unresponsive bureaucracy carrying out edicts from distant capitals.

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.

When the school districts send out the notices, the teachers unions angrily point fingers at the district, insisting that they cut the bureaucracy instead and suggest that taxes should be raised rather than cutting back teachers.

They are instead, parallel school systems — each necessitating separate layers of bureaucracy and oversight and each siphoning money out of the taxpayer supported school system.

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.

It would also help you out to ask our school leaders about networks, superintendent offices, consultants, Tweed, and if all that money being diverted to these levels of bureaucracies could be better used in the schools.

«I hope Marylanders will take advantage of several opportunities — including the new Maryland College - and Career - Ready Standards, the PARCC assessments, the selection of our next State Superintendent of Schools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into schools and clasSchools, and the election of the next Mayor of Baltimore — to put policies in place that will get more resources, and the power to use them, out of bureaucracies and into schools and classchools and classrooms.

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In a lot of ways it's better than grad school — instructors are accessible, and unbounded by university bureaucracy, they end up crafting courses straight out of a dream notebook.