Other old favorites included reforming and simplifying school aid formulas, a proposal that will work only if it is accompanied by a fairer allocation of state funds among the urban, rural and suburban school systems.
Such supporters say that a student-based financing method can simplify the school budget process and can even cut inexplicable disparities in financing between schools.
He has a program to simplify public school management and accountability and to increase classroom resources.
Mr. Pataki has said that he, too, wants to simplify the school aid formula, though he insists that elected lawmakers, not a judge, should devise a solution.
Sometimes, in places like this, you have to treat what you are being given as you would those complicated fractions that you were instructed to simplify at school, by scratching out all the irrelevant stuff.
The education secretary, Michael Gove, is facing a growing rebellion from teachers and architects over plans to simplify new school buildings after a study claimed well-designed classrooms could improve pupils' progress in lessons by as much as 25%.
Schooladmissions Schooladmissions was started to simplify the school application process in India.
Structured schedules eliminate complicated negotiations with employers and simplify exhausting school-children-jobs balancing acts.
Since the 1960s, a reform movement has attempted to unify secondary education in a Gesamtschule (comprehensive school); several West German states later simplified their school system to two or three tiers.
