Sentence examples for authority of schools from inspiring English sources

Do special disciplinary procedures, set up to protect students whose behavior is shaped by their disability, unduly undermine the authority of schools?

Largely unregulated, the police presence undermines the authority of school officials: New York City public school officials have essentially no authority over on-site police officers.

The ruling was an extension of a 1995 case in which the court first substantially increased the authority of school officials to conduct searches.

Bring back local authority control of schools: that would be a disaster.

Giving his speech at the Conservative party's autumn conference, David Cameron said he wanted to see every school become an academy and to end local authority control of schools.

Will there be enough civil servants to deal with problems that arise within those academies that go it alone, cut off from the local authority family of schools?

Only the National Union of Teachers manifesto, Vote for Education, which also wants an end to league tables, envisages a return to full local authority oversight of schools.

The dismantling of local authority oversight of schools and its replacement by cross-country academy chains is an example of ideological change with an absence of supporting evidence that it will improve our schools.

"Sir Michael should be lamenting this situation and asking politicians to put the brake on its education and adoption bill, which will force more schools to leave the local authority family of schools and further erode our schools system".

"The fig leaf of 'parental choice'schoolool autonomy' and 'raising standards' has finally been dropped and the government's real agenda has been laid bare – all schools removed from collaborative structures within a local authority family of schools, all schools instead run by remote academy trusts, unaccountable to parents, staff or local communities".

Blunkett said there was no way to turn back the clock on changes implemented by the coalition and that he was not going to propose a simple return to local authority control of schools, but that decisions were needed to make the current relationship between schools and central government less complicated.