But by far the best route to fairness is not fiddling with the universities, but improving the state school system.
Born in the remote town of Paracatu in the state of Minas Gerais and the son of a builder, Mr Barbosa was educated in Brazil's much criticised state school system.
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Teaching unions, Labour and other opponents claim free schools will increase divisions in the state school system and weaken educational services provided by councils because they are directly funded from central government, not through local authorities.
Since the governor's tax plans for teachers were unveiled last month, the state's school system has been placed under scrutiny after a civil rights' group filed a lawsuit claiming that the state was failing to provide the basic provisions of education.
What Sweden also has, running in parallel with the state system, is a private school system.
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Now the next opponent for the upstart state school will be the system's flagship university, third-seeded Florida, on Friday night in the South Regional semifinal in Dallas.
He said that independent schools often had the knowledge and connections to "play the system while state school students lose out".
Republicans in Wisconsin have not yet begun to fight against the traditional public school system in that state.
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Florida reveals the next stage: linking vouchers to the performance of public schools in order to shake up the public-school system throughout the state.
My problem is not with Robert Bobb as a person, or with the act of placing a school system or city into state receivership.
Ohio's economy has rebounded during Gov. John Kasich's term, and he has promoted plans to overhaul the state's tax code and school funding system.
Mr Gove gave the example of the US state of Massachusetts as an example of a school system that had applied the principles of a "knowledge-based curriculum".
House Bill 1086 passed overwhelmingly in the House by a 185-15 vote and would have required the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System to divest from companies doing business in Iran and Sudan.
State law pushed by Cuomo to protect federal Race to the Top funding required all of New York's nearly 700 school districts to have an approved evaluation system in place by Jan. 17 in order to receive a state aid increase in the current school year.
The ruling puts a school system already in flux into an even bigger state of uncertainty, calling for the reinstatement of five of the nine ousted school board members and for a special election to fill the four seats that were up for re-election in November 2011.
State and city officials said they looked to New Haven's school system, which overhauled its evaluation system two years ago.
The governor had set a January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring an evaluation system for all teachers.
The chancellor must also contend with the opinions of state governor, city and state assemblies, parents, the teachers' union, and the school system's own 3, 700-person bureaucracy in its Brooklyn headquarters.
The Florida ruling could also undo that state's charter schools, even though they are part of the public school system.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state officials violated the law last summer during a takeover of the Bridgeport public school system.
The bill allows school districts to require "mental health first aid" training for school personnel and creates a task force to examine the state's mental health system.
Under state law, all of New York's roughly 700 school districts must develop a system for evaluating teachers based on a mix of standardized test scores, classroom observations and other measures.
She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.
Vallas got the job three years ago after the Republican-controlled Illinois state legislature in Springfield passed a sweeping reform bill that gave Mayor Daley effective control of the Chicago public school system.
He has privatized most of the country's state-owned industries, implemented a free-trade pact with the U.S. and revamped the school system.
He has been going around the country for the past two years, talking to parents, talking to state school chiefs, talking to governors, in addition to his experience as the CEO of the Chicago public school system.
When Higgins first took his job, Samuell was a state power in baseball, having won a title in 1965, the only baseball champion to come from the Dallas school system.
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