Cuts/Spending * Civil service budgets to be cut by 1% next year and 2% in 2014, with NHS and schools exempted.
Schools will also get an allocation to hire reading and math coaches to train teachers in the new uniform curriculum, while schools exempted from the curriculum will instead get a $110,000 allocation -- $55,000 per coach -- to use as they please.
As a charter school exempt from union rules, Parker had no compensation policy during its first five years, and that meant that some junior members of the staff were paid more than veterans.
Do we teach with beauty and joy and wonder and humanness?" Tanton offered one of his own methods for attaining joy and wonder: as a teacher — in a private school, exempt from state standards — he handed out math quizzes that gave both a problem and its answer, but also provided a large white space for students to show how to get from one to the other.
No nonfailing school was exempted from having to accept transfers, except for those with specific admission requirements.
While each state sets different qualifycations, some states require pre-kindergarten teachers in public schools to have a bachelor's degree and a teacher certificate while those in non-public schools are exempted from such requirements.
And sometimes, diagnosing a child with ADHD allowed the school to exempt that child's scores from the measures by which the school and its administrators are evaluated and either rewarded or punished.
Linda G. Cooper, Yorktown's supervisor, added that her town was about average for a community in the area -- with roughly one-quarter of properties, including churches and schools, exempt from taxes.
This uncertainty raises an even bigger question: if they're publicly funded, why are charter schools exempt from rules and standards that are meant to protect kids?
In one breath, they claim to be public schools entitled to taxpayer money, while, in the next, they claim they are not, being private schools exempt from public-school accountability.
