Let's take the Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School right here in D.
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The headteacher runs the school and what is clear about a school is that the headteacher has the power and the authority and the freedom to run that school.
The problem, I think, comes because we can not provide local monopolies like school districts freedom without accountability.
Charter schools have been successful because they offer freedom to shape the school to the pupils, rather than the other way round.
After much brainstorming, we settled on a grade-based solution, which I wrote about last month, ultimately letting the girls' performance in school decide how much freedom they'd have in using computers.
The freshman class is especially notorious for abusing their newfound freedom at this large, underperforming high school.
The details of free school applicants was originally requested under the Freedom of Information Act by the Guardian newspaper, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the British Humanist Association (BHA).
Charter schools have the freedom to hire whom they want, and for this school, being young and enthusiastic counts for a lot.
Most sixth forms also offer students far greater freedom in the sixth form than they had lower down the school.
The downside is that the process to arrive there can waste a lot of time and energy in reinventing the wheel, when, depending on the problem a school is trying to solve, the level of freedom it has to solve it, and the type of team it deploys to attack it, there is some predictability to the blended-learning model it is likely to adopt.
But it is exactly that freedom from the shackles of the state bureaucracy which allows an experimental school like Egalia to exist.
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In the immediate future, Ehrenberg said maintaining low interest rates will help students leave school with lower debt, which will give them more freedom to consider occupations for reasons other than salaries.
Charter school proponents say increased accountability -- as well as the freedom to innovate -- gives them an edge over traditional public schools.
They say most of the powers they have to intervene in underperforming schools can be used only once Ofsted has put a school into a "failing" category and that they have less freedom than the trusts which run academies to intervene in struggling schools.
Borrowing from the Tim Ferriss school of thought, I find money to be merely an enabler of freedom.
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Thirty-one-year-old Fereshta Ludin, who was denied a job in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 1998 because she wore a headscarf in school, went to courts arguing that the German constitution guaranteed her religious freedom.
Except for two things: Plaintiff Keiser University in Fort Lauderdale used the Freedom of Information Act to get all sorts of nasty e-mails from public school administrators to the short-sellers.
The prime minister is also asked why there will be no referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, whether political correctness has damaged freedom of expression and whether education about drugs should be a compulsory part of the school curriculum.
The Court failed to recognize the religious freedom of these Roman Catholic and Christian students who want to participate in Kentucky high school sports without losing their badly needed tuition that was provided to them based on their academic abilities.
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The call was issued in the Brisbane Declaration adopted at the close of the conference, organized in collaboration with the School of Journalism of the University of Queensland on 2 and 3 May to mark World Press Freedom Day.
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