Sentences with phrase «teachers under local control»

Our kids deserve strong schools and great teachers under local control.

Not exact matches

A school placed under the Commissioner's Network would not be allowed to keep its family - controlled school governance council; instead, it would be replaced by a turnaround committee whose parent representative would be appointed by the National Education Association or American Federation of Teachers local.

He added: «Regional Schools Commissioners are using their local knowledge to hold schools to account and thanks to that expertise, and the support of head teacher boards, they are able to take swift and targeted action to tackle underperformance rather than schools being left to stagnate under local authority control.»

It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.

Jerry Glazier, the chief of the local National Union of Teachers branch (now under the National Education Union), said he was worried the council would have less control over a local authority - initiated MAT.

The Orleans Parish School Board fired its teachers after the storm, and the state board of education took control of all but the 13 best schools, which remain under the local board.

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.

«When schools were under local control it would have been unthinkable as well as impossible that a head teacher of even a group of schools could earn more than a director of education, let alone the secretary of state for education, let alone the prime minister,» Mr Clarkson told the conference.

Indeed, a major breakthrough was the finding that in their naturalistic (under local teacher control) change setting, teachers often changed their beliefs prior to changing their practices (or changed beliefs interactively with changes in practice), thus contradicting the more common finding, especially in studies of mandated change, of changes in practice preceding changes in beliefs.

Over the last several years federal and state accountability legislation has come under attack from a duo of strange bedfellows: Tea Party / Trump - ish acolytes who wave the banner of local control and teacher union leaders who disdain objective measurements of student learning, at least when they're tied to teacher evaluations and job security.

MYTH: The main problem with education is the lazy or incompetent teacher, who is protected by corrupt unions and supervised by out - of - control local school councils, so the key to reform is a system of rewards and punishments and the dismantling of rights to organize (as with state legislation currently under debate).

Parents, teachers, elected officials and civic organizations have written letters of support to Hall, urging him to allow the two Durham schools to remain under local control.

Make the salary schedule a base with some flexibility under the Local Control Accountability Plan to let parents and students divide a set percentage of money to be paid to teachers that parents and students feel are above their field in performance.

«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 stateUnder 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 stateunder a strong tradition of local control by municipal school boards and, ultimately, teachers,» Jepsen said in a statement.

An Academies Act, passed in the summer, paved the way for groups of parents, teachers and charities to set up their own «free schools», and for the expansion of the academies programme, under which schools are being encouraged to «opt out» of local authority control.