But others have been through well-intentioned community college programs that simply did not have the resources or structure to devise curriculums that actually prepare students for jobs.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company, for example, has already been working with community colleges in places like Fresno and Modesto, Calif., to help devise curriculums for jobs related to clean energy and skilled crafts.
Local school districts devise curriculums in Kansas, as in most other states, but the standards provide a template by outlining what will be covered on the statewide science tests, given every other year in grades 4, 7 and 10.
These schools can devise curriculums to focus on basics rather than on passing fads.
But companies like K12 are almost fully in charge — devising curriculum, hiring teachers and principals and evaluating student performance.
The 12 schools being restructured are at an earlier stage in improvement efforts: education officials have spent the last year coming up with plans to replace at least half the staff at each school, devise new curriculums and provide more intensive instruction periods during and after school hours.
All the African countries sampled that do not have a bioinformatics degree have expressed interest in devising a curriculum and a degree program in bioinformatics, motivated by falling costs of biological data generation, and the dearth of human capital to organize, investigate and make sense of this deluge of data.
He referred those questions to Erica Muhl, dean of the university's fine arts school, who will be the inaugural director of the program and in charge of devising the curriculum, selecting professors and reviewing applications.
Through the North Carolina education department, Ms. Tuttle registered their family as a home school and devised a curriculum for her children.
That "organic" STEM faculty elected a union representative, opted to extend the day and devised straightforward curriculum changes in what is claimed to have been a mere three hours.
