For years, the District of Columbia public school system has been crippled by a growing and non-responsive bureaucracy.

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In our case, the support of the mayor has been critical, and as one of the only large urban districts to adopt this change in governance of our schools, I believe that the District of Columbia public school system will be a model for urban school reform.

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On a recent school district visit I had an assistant superintendent tell me that her school system better figure out how to meet the needs of these digital learners because they have access to so many free resources and experts and she fears that their institution might soon be obsolete.

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This week parliament also began work on a bill to overhaul the school system, decentralising much of the responsibility to the provincial and district level.

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For the Swedish school system operates with directly funded schools, the municipality running them just as a school district would in the US. But such schools are not experimental in the manner of Egalia.

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Recovery School District spokeswoman Siona LaFrance says most job applicants taught New Orleans kids before in the old locally controlled system, but some of them don't even qualify for interviews now.

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