Sentences with phrase «strong local control of schools»

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

Not exact matches

But this strong local - control state doesn't have many of the state policies tracked by Education Week that influence school climate.

I want every child to have quality school choices, I want stronger (and broader) external standards, I want more open paths to becoming an educator, I want empowered school leaders (really empowered, in ways that would also break the union stranglehold) who are compensated like CEOs, I want super pay for great instructors and no pay for incompetents, and I want a complete makeover of «local control.»

And, experts say, recognizing that accepted «norms» — among them, a strong federal involvement in American schools, such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core — were anything but normal, in a system that for the majority of its history has been under state and local control.

In fact, because of the strong tradition of local control, New Hampshire's districts and charter schools were free to interpret and implement the state's competency mandate as they saw fit.

If your district has a strong history of local control, it may make more sense to provide participating schools with the authority to decide where to start the program.

The California STEM Learning Network (CSLNet) has recently released a report and supplement toolkit with resources to help advocates built a strong foundation of STEM and science education in schools» Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

The LCFF holds great promise for foster youth, but in order for that to become a reality, districts and counties need to develop strong goals and sets of actions specific to foster youth in their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP) to ensure foster youth receive the supports and services they need to succeed in school and thrive in life.

Getting a well - prepared, well - supported principal in every school is a bipartisan cause, and effective school leadership is critical to delivering on ESSA's promise of local control: strong, sustained, cost - efficient implementation of school improvement strategies that get results for kids in every classroom, every year.

We also failed to understand the political and district costs of tying such laws to federal incentives, particularly given a strong ethos of local control in many school districts, like most of those in Colorado.

Low - performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate - backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and proponents of community schools who assert that parents, teachers and students — in short, the public — are the greatest asset in restoring strong educational outcomes.

«Under our system of government, state education policy is determined by the Legislative and Executive Branches and implemented under a strong tradition of local control by municipal school boards and, ultimately, teachers,» Jepsen said in a statement.