Sentences with phrase «school freedom»

We talk a lot about giving schools the freedom and flexibility to find delivery methods that work for individual sites.

The charter school theory of action trades autonomy for accountability — allowing schools freedom from regulations imposed on school districts in exchange for meeting established performance goals.

The charter movement is built on allowing charter schools the freedom to make decisions on what they teach, how they run their schools and how they spend their money.

As in most other debates about school freedoms and responsibilities, the solution involves smart trade - offs.

It concludes by saying that the heads will want to be able to claim for their own schools the freedoms they say are offered to academy schools.

However, the government's focus on greater school freedom means local and civil society organisations must act to help schools to pursue sustainability.

An effective market in education grants schools the freedom to target particular student audiences.

This comes despite two years of government policy giving schools the freedom and autonomy to choose the ICT tools and resources appropriate to meeting their specific needs.

The Department for Education argued that it gave free schools this freedom, which exists amongst independent schools, to enable them to employ industry experts.

The Senate majority leader explains the intent behind a provision that the Senate inserted into the mayoral control bill is to give charter schools freedom from some state and city requirements.

We need more school freedoms and a collaborative culture to spread that innovation and best practice.»

Relatively few states have restrictive home - schooling laws, and hopefully this decision, and the attention it brought to home schooling, will prove to be a significant step toward home - schooling freedom for everyone.

The pair believe school freedoms have been under - emphasised in education reform in recent years.

Report author Anne Pinney says she is concerned about moves to extend school freedoms, which include giving those schools control over their admissions policies.

«Emanuel wants to bring it back to give the best - led, best - performing schools freedom to innovate around curriculum and instruction and allocate resources for school specific needs... On charter schools, Emanuel said it's not charters versus public schools, but quality versus non-quality.»

Early charter enthusiasts believed that granting a small number of public schools the freedom to innovate with instruction, ways of grouping students, the use of time and other education strategies would allow the development of practices that might better serve disadvantaged students.

Any other arrangement threatens steady encroachment on school freedom and flexibility.

«The Secretary of State says that schools are best run by teachers, and yet he is giving academies and free schools the freedom to employ those without qualified teacher status.

CCSA weighed in to protect charter school freedom from these statutorily imposed teacher employment practices.

Freedom to suit pupils The draft programme of study will allow schools the freedom to apply it in a way that suits their pupils while ensuring that children have the opportunities to experience real computing, gain the skills they need to operate in today's digital society, understand the application of IT in the workplace and learn the essentials of computer science.

Meanwhile, stand D100 saw the latest and most unique approach to ICT procurement and support; giving schools the freedom to choose what they want and how they want it.

Along a similar vein, Alice Barnard, chief executive of the Edge Foundation added: «Giving schools the freedom to secure careers guidance is all very well, but there is dire need for schools to be given the tools and resources to engage with employers and ensure all young people have access to work experience and careers guidance, not just those who have the advantage of social capital.»

The technology ranges from processing payments to homework monitoring and parental engagement, and gives schools the freedom to operate in a manner of their choosing.

The government says its planned changes to pay will improve standards, by rewarding the best teachers and that its academy programme gives schools freedom to innovate and deliver the best education for children.

Knowing their students are likely to succeed on tests gives these schools freedom to teach higher - level thinking skills.

Efforts to simply extend the Brown Act, the Public Records Act and the Political Reform Act to charters has failed in the past — largely because the rigid requirements don't mesh well with fundamental tenants of the charter movement that give the schools freedom and flexibility.

Simply put, the legislature should establish a vision for excellence, give schools the freedom to meet those goals, and, without interfering, hold them accountable for education excellence.

In its Academies Bill, which will make the legal changes needed for this academies expansion, the government says becoming academies will «give schools the freedoms and flexibilities they need to continue to drive up standards».

Converting to this status gives these schools the freedom to innovate and continue the practices that made them successful.

Speaking at The Character Conference, organised by Demos and The Jubilee Centre, Mr Hunt said he felt the inspectorate should value character but allow schools the freedom to choose how it was implemented.

To reflect the diversity of its pupils, the school has used its free school freedoms to offer the International Primary Curriculum, a thematic curriculum which connects areas of knowledge in substantive topics and has a broader, more international focus.

For more on this topic, see our pages on Parental Choice and Responsibility and School Freedom and Competition.

He added: «The reason we pressed ahead was that I believe it's important that we give schools freedoms.