Although oversubscribed charter schools must use a lottery for admission, traditional public schools by law have to enroll all students.
But Mr. Knowles emphasized that schools must use the time wisely, not just do more of what had not worked.
In South Africa, the Parliament passed a resolution that public schools must use open-source software, as did a few states in Brazil.
Chief among these was that when adjudicating complaints of sexual harassment or assault, schools must use a standard of a "preponderance of the evidence" rather than the higher standard of "clear and convincing evidence" that was then common in universities (let alone the exceedingly high standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" used in criminal cases).
QS TopMBA, a British firm which organises MBA fairs, says that management consulting, for example, has not suffered the same decline as the financial sector, predicting that the number of MBAs hired into consulting this year will have trebled since 2003.Still, this will not be enough to satisfy demand, so business schools must use all of the tools at their disposal.
All curricula are prepared by MoNE and private schools must use them.
Under their funding agreements (the contract signed between the education secretary and those setting up the school), free schools must "use their best endeavours" to meet any special needs of pupils, while disability legislation requires them to make "reasonable adjustments" to provide for disabled students.
The preponderance standard is used in civil litigation, but AAUP said the Office for Civil Rights should have allowed for feedback from institutions before dictating that schools must use it to comply with Title IX. .
Medical schools must use legitimate criteria to discriminate between applicants and make an unequivocal offer/reject decision about each applicant.
And in the event of layoffs, school districts must use seniority to determine who loses their jobs; Mr. Klein has not been able to convince the Legislature that principals should have the power to choose the teachers they keep.
