Sentences with phrase «traditional district operation»

Fulton County and Atlanta may find themselves on the path to the Hollywood Model of Education and the end of traditional district operation of schools.

Not exact matches

While Congress and the Obama administration have pressed the Bureau of Indian Education to overhaul operations at the schools it oversees on or near American Indian reservations, more than 90 percent of the 950,000 American Indian children attend traditional public schools run by local districts.

Traditional districts unwilling to change any aspect of their operations will only do the bare minimum unless there is some benefit (either in the form of money or flexibility) to doing so.

The day - to - day operations of the district's 89 schools currently under traditional management (stretched across the 13 cities and the county's unincorporated areas outside of Atlanta) would fall into the hands of each school's principals and parents in a manner similar to that of the district's 12 charter schools.

They must become active players in shaping education for their children, ask tough, thoughtful questions about what is being taught in classrooms, demand information on the quality of the teachers working in classrooms, and play stronger roles in shaping the overhauls of traditional district schools (and in the operations of charter schools serving their kids).