Sentences with phrase «school bureaucrats making»

Public - school bureaucrats making $ 300,000 salaries — even more than New York pays its governor!

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The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

I have been through 6 Superintendents and countless top level bureaucrats in that time and made plenty of enemies myself — just so you know that I am no knee - jerk supporter of school districts or school bureaucracies.

Rather than making state bureaucrats solely responsible for holding hundreds or thousands of schools to account, we can share this responsibility with those with the greatest stake in the final outcome: parents and other adult caregivers.

And whether I'm wearing my bureaucrat hat or my think - tank hat, I make sure to devote some of my energy to trying to preserve inner - city faith - based schools serving low - income kids.

Schools ought to be «directly answerable to the people most affected by their performance,» or parents, not regulators and bureaucrats; I made a similar argument in a US News column in December.

The Chancellor's pledge to make every school in England into an academy shows a continued effort to place education into the hands of head teachers and teachers rather than bureaucrats, despite the heavy distraction of the European referendum.

Three decades of experimentation with school choice demonstrate that making it work requires careful attention to such tasks as ensuring that parents have good information about school quality and suitable transportation — responsibilities that skeptical local bureaucrats may dodge.

3) «School choice realists» like us, who want to empower parents to make decisions about their own kids» education, but are skeptical about the effectiveness of distant bureaucrats.

A Freedom of Information request filed by the NY Post revealed that the DOE «employs at least 114 bureaucrats and «coaches» — making a combined $ 12.7 million a year and rising — to run Mayor de Blasio's stumbling Renewal program to fix failing schools.»

A citywide coalition of community groups is demanding that 80 % of $ 1 billion in new school funding headed to L.A. Unified be spent on needy students according to decisions made by local schools rather than district bureaucrats.