Sentences with phrase «school bureaucrats from»

A Parent Trigger stops school bureaucrats from slotting kids into schools without concern for fit or quality, and it forces administrators to address parents» concerns.

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When schools are run by government bureaucrats... the details of 9th - Grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals & religious observances, speech / dress / behavior codes... and every other possible issue — from how to teach math & reading... to vending machine contents & cafeteria menus — becomes a POLITICAL issue.

Hence Nancy's sincere advice above to organize -LCB- politically -RCB- and «demand» change from lethargic school bureaucrats.

From School Choice (Vouchers), Cutting down on red - tape Bureaucrats, Tax Cuts, to strong social and family values as Pro-Life & against the so - called redefinition of Marriage.

Notably, the quality reviews were not conducted by bureaucrats in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, but by the state's network of «teacher leaders,» two from each school, chosen by the LDOE.

So it comes as a surprise when he says, without hesitating, that he's glad a bunch of bureaucrats have come down from the state capital to seize power from the school board.

Indeed, from the standpoint of many parents, having your child reduced to a decimal point in a state accountability formula used by bureaucrats to judge your school is problematic.

In many states, education bureaucrats will use the results from the national tests to judge the quality of the public school system and those who learn and work in it.

Why should I feel better about PARCC and Common Core just because a state bureaucrat or leader of a taxpayer funded school board or school administrator association tells me we have had state mandated standards and testing for a long time when the original set of standards and tests were broken and built from an economic view point, not an educational one.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

Some critics of public schools urge greater competition among schools as a way of returning control from bureaucrats to parents and teachers.

Now, in addition to lazy, greedy politicians and bureaucrats, we also have to deal with the multi-million dollar attack campaign against teachers and public schools coming from the corporate sector, and from both the right - and left wing.

«Unfortunately, too many bureaucrats refuse to free urban minority youth from the prison of these failing schools,» Holtz said.

Risk - taking charter school operator Steve Barr is launching an effort through which parents would wrest political control of the L.A. school system from unions, school bureaucrats and other entrenched interests.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faschool, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are faSchool Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

«The mission was to recover the schools, not to maintain a group of white bureaucrats not from New Orleans,» said Mr. White, 41, an alumnus of the elite St. Albans School in Washington and the University of Virginia.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»