Sentences with phrase «schools control directly»

The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes.

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Keri has a Bachelors degree in Occupational Therapy, and in this role, she continues to work directly with children in the public school system schools using toys and play experiences to develop strength, motor control, coordination and developmental milestones.
In a shot directly at Mayor Bill de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.
On Tuesday, the union president, Michael Mulgrew, would not directly discuss whether he would urge the borough presidents to appoint people who would keep the current schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and give her day - to - day control of the schools.
Also bring academies into some kind of proper locally based democratic control, local government or directly elected schools boards, admissions to be done by LAs, insist on pupil premium, absolutely vital.
ALBANY — In a shot directly at Mayor de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the mayor, Austin Finan, did not respond directly to Mr. Flanagan's criticism, saying the mayor and the schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, «articulated a clear and compelling case for the state to grant a multiyear extension of mayoral control
Cuomo has now said he wants to prevent mayors from interfering with the operations of charter schools, which directly threatens the mayoral control of schools that only de Blasio holds, among all of the state's mayors.
Its School Construction Authority is the rare local entity that has soup - to - nuts responsibility for financing, building, and overseeing public schools, largely because it is now controlled directly by the mayor.
In earlier days, and in other countries, the government is the regulator of schools and provides quality control but does not directly operate all schools.
Although parents can't control those factors directly, we can help by staying informed and involved in the systems that influence our children's school experiences, from voting for local school councils to being aware of national education policy.
In the absence of a compelling reason to retain control centrally, school leaders, as the primary agents of change, should have freedom and flexibility over how best to use their resources (time, people, and money) to create meaningful changes that directly impact students.
There could be very big implications for schools if this is funding that would have gone to schools and will now be directly controlled by families.
To scholars, experimentation further suggests: 1) conducting studies in laboratories where external factors can be controlled in order to relate cause more directly to effect; or 2) randomly choosing which schools, classrooms, or students will be exposed to a reform and which will be exposed to the alternative with which the reform is to be compared.
«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»
Local control is valuable, said the Court, because it facilitates «the greatest participation by those most directly concerned» with school decisionmaking.
One could reasonably argue that requiring school districts to provide some financial support to students attending private school does not directly interfere with the state constitution's mandate that local school boards have control over «instruction in the public schools» (emphasis added).
Amthal has worked directly with the school to update its intruder system and integrate CCTV and access control solutions, which can easily be added to as and when the school adds new, often prefabricated, buildings on site.
Though the Orleans Parish School Board would still maintain control over the budget and the hiring and firing of teachers, A&M would report directly to the state superintendent and have the authority to appoint the district's top financial officers.
It also directly threatens the unions with a loss of members and resources, with far greater difficulties in organizing new schools, and with losses in power, control, and perquisites.
And deference to local control and private - school autonomy make it extremely difficult to contemplate the prescription of academic knowledge that must be imparted by all schools that are funded directly (districts and charters) or indirectly (via tax credits, vouchers, and ESAs).
Although grant - maintained status was abolished in 1998 many schools retained that financial control over their finances, and in the year 2000 schools were once again able to obtain funding directly from government through Labour Government introduced Academies.
Instead of funding a system of schooling that remunerates regular public schools based on enrollment, funding for K — 12 education in DC could go directly into a parent - controlled education savings account.
In an effort to give more control to local school districts, the state Legislature passed sweeping changes to public education, many of which affected teachers directly.
Free schools have been described as independent state schools because they will be funded directly from central government, standing outside council control.
The schools - being set up by groups of parents, charities and faith bodies - will be funded directly by Westminster and be outside local authority control.
One could even see the creation of neighborhood schools similar to the neighborhood associations in communities; such «community chartered schools» could actually allow for more - democratic control of schools because the people who directly pay into it and start it have skin of sorts in the game.
In any case, democratic control of actual day - to - day school operations shouldn't really be a concern, especially if parents can make choices about the kind of schools their kids attend and that the schools engage parents in school decision - making (most - directly, in what their kids learn).
Among its basic goals, DSBA is dedicated to advancing the quality of Delaware's public schools, promoting efficient and effective administration of those schools and strengthening the tradition of local citizen control through the establishment of education policy by elected and appointed school board members directly accountable to the communities they serve.
Free schools do not have to follow the national curriculum and are directly funded by central government, outside of local authority control.
Although they are not directly controlled by the local education authority, representatives from academy schools were also present.
While the government wants new groups to come forward to set up schools, it also wants all good existing schools to become academies - and like the free schools, these will be funded directly by Westminster and be outside of local authority control.
Very similar to academy schools, they also reflect the way the government wants to revolutionise the system, with schools funded directly by Westminster, semi-independent and outside of local authority control, with the freedom to vary the school day, terms, the curriculum and teachers» pay and conditions.
This could include taking schools away from local authority control, converting them into academies - directly funded by central government - and putting them under the leadership of high - achieving head teachers.
Free schools are very similar to academies in that they do not have to follow the national curriculum, can vary the pay and conditions of teachers, are directly funded by central government and are outside of local authority control.
The RSD is a special school district that operates under the control of the Louisiana Department of Education Over the past eight years, it has shifted from a centrally controlled system that directly oversaw and governed schools, to one that grants charters to interested groups meeting certain criteria.
The new free schools, which are also academies, are also outside of council control and funded directly from central government.
Both are charter schools, not directly under the control of the school board.
And what, exactly, did Mayor Bloomberg, who welcomed the Success Network at every opportunity, do to position the schools directly under his control to compete in THAT environment?
Ms. Dial did not respond directly to requests for comment, but gave a statement through the school, saying, «I'm deeply committed to the children and families of our school, and I'm sorry for my lapse in emotional control 15 months ago.
Evans says even though City Council doesn't directly control the district, they are involved with approving the school budget, and Evans hopes to be involved in other ways as well.
This, despite the fact that the state had doubled the expenditure per pupil for a period of time and all these schools were directly run by Supt. Paul Vallas who selected the «world class» school administrators, contracted to staff the schools with the «best and brightest» teachers (TFA), and controlled the curriculum and hours of instruction.
This might hand some of the power back to public school teachers, who may not control budgets directly.
Sir Albert claimed he was frustrated with the two - tier schools system in which academies operate outside the local authority's control and report directly to the DfE.
«So if schools want to do that [become academies], they'll have all those advantages of money flowing directly to them, of having more control over what goes on in the school, of being their own admissions authority.»
MKR is fun and full of charming old - school vibes that will hit you directly in the nostalgia feels, though the iffy controls and lack of real diversity throughout the levels hamper the game as a whole.
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