Sentences with phrase «schools additional autonomies»

This legislation gave those schools additional autonomies around collective bargaining, personnel assignment and scheduling, the length of the school day, funding, and other organizational and structural issues, and also created the possibility of state receivership if the schools did not dramatically improve their performance.

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The Commonwealth Pilot Schools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforSchools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforschools turn around their own performances.

Well, what we've found from research and detailed studies of schools that are using this additional autonomy is that just giving schools more authority may make no difference at all if schools don't have a capacity to make good decisions in the interests of their students.

Professional autonomy means that schools have the knowledge and skills to actually use that additional authority to make those decisions.

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

The Charter Law provides charter schools with additional autonomy under Minnesota law.