Sentence examples for responsibility for schools from inspiring English sources

They could also shift more responsibility for schools to the mayor.

"They're not taking the time and effort to educate themselves, and as a result, they've made it another responsibility for schools.

In one of the most centralized countries in the Western world, Cameron is championing a dramatic transfer of responsibility — for schools, hospitals, police forces — to local governments and communities.

Last year, some of them had no television signal for several months, according to José Ángel Pescador, a former education minister.A reform in 1992 formally devolved responsibility for schools to Mexico's 32 states.

Transferring responsibility for schools to municipalities seems to help, and this has been happening across the country in recent decades.As elsewhere, teachers' unions present a huge obstacle to improvement.

He is having to explain why stripping councils of responsibility for schools might conceivably have opened the door to local educational anarchy, with large cultural and possibly security implications.

Hunt also said he would like to see groups of local authorities such as in Greater Manchester, Sheffield or Nottinghamshire assuming responsibility for school education, appointing independent directors responsible for commissioning schools and maintaining standards.

Can the federal government afford to take primary responsibility for school financing?

Headteachers will be given responsibility for school improvement budgets in a shift away from centralised government control, the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said today.

Parents who have been sucked into the system, such as Jennifer Rambo, the mother of Sarah Bustamantes, wonder what happened to teachers taking responsibility for school discipline.

"This should only be done by local authorities which have the long-term strategic responsibility for school places and understand the needs of their local communities," he said.