Sentence examples for schools independence from inspiring English sources

The schools' independence from local school boards and union contracts, the theory went, would free them to become seedbeds of educational achievement in a landscape of underperforming failure.

But that led to a different kind of backlash: many middle-class parents, who prize their schools' independence and feared they would be unfairly excluded, complained.

These schools' independence creates an environment in which parents can be more involved, teachers are free to innovate and students are provided the structure they need to learn.

The big problem was that it would have undercut the schools' independence by transferring the power to create charter schools from local authorities to the Board of Regents, which is appointed by the Legislature.

"These three schools have demonstrated a willingness to cooperate, a willingness to reform their governance structures, to guarantee their schools' independence and have appropriate accountability for how taxpayer dollars are used," Birmingham said.

But skeptics question the sincerity of the movement's reflection, saying the accountability-focused rhetoric might be merely lip service paid to the promise of charter schools: independence in exchange for accountability.

Britain is giving school independence the shove it needs.

They may not yet understand what it means to give schools true independence.

If the school is successful, it could not only protect Downhills from becoming an academy but stall the government's drive to push schools into independence from their local authorities by making ministers rethink their methods.

The only thing I wanted when I left school was independence.

But within a year, she began to feel that the school's independence had created its own frustrations for teachers: suddenly, for example, they were required to attend staff development days but they were not allowed to ask questions; they had to submit daily lesson plans but did not get any feedback.