It was set up by the Scottish Executive after teachers and their local authority employers, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla), failed to agree on changes to pay and conditions.
It is not easy to do, but one thing we do know is that the people who have authority in those communities, doctors, teachers, need to be figures who can credibly exercise authority.
The Scottish Qualifications Authority has urged teachers to take account of mistakes which can undermine pupils.
Goals are set by the state or other educational authority, and teachers and school administrators are expected to devise appropriate methods for attaining these goals.
"For China to produce its own Steve Jobs, our education system needs to reform to encourage creativity, to encourage students to challenge the authority, their teachers, and their books, " she explained.
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Martin Suthers, deputy leader of the county council, said the figures included teachers who have left local authority schools to work at academies, and denied it had gone too far in its cuts.
We must go forward in our commitment to the new basics, giving parents greater authority and making sure good teachers are rewarded for hard work and achievement through merit pay.
Mr Johnson insisted that "there is an absence of boundaries and an absence of respect" behind the rioting in England, and called on society to give "the right to impose authority" back to parents and teachers.
Describing why they wanted to be like their teachers, boys said they wanted to have their authority or knowledge.
The Conservative-led authority said it would train two new teachers.
The union is also fighting another of Ms. Anderson's strategies: giving principals more authority and allowing them to move unwanted teachers out of the classroom and into a districtwide pool, called an excess pool.
But in presenting the pay deal for teachers, the government asserted that it had increased local authority funding by 5.7%, more than sufficient to cover the increases in pay.
This, in turn, would allow the authority to appoint "a similar number of new teachers giving them a career start".
Primarily, it wanted to take hiring authority away from school principals by requiring that laid-off teachers be hired back.
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They operate as academies, and like them, do not have to follow the national curriculum, can vary the pay and conditions of teachers, are directly funded by central government and are outside of local authority control.
He accused the centre-left government of doing a deal on school reform with the local authority organisation KL, which pre-empted negotiations with the national teachers' union.
The education authority said all had too few pupils and there were problems attracting senior teachers.
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Earlier, the Welsh Assembly stressed it was only new teachers and those returning from a career break who needed checking - those previously cleared by another education authority can go straight into the classroom.
Members of the National Union of Teachers at Hamstead Hall School, Handsworth Wood, are worried as it will take it out of local authority control.
Instead, teachers liked traits that ran counter to creativity, such as conformity, sincerity, reliability and unquestioned acceptance of authority.
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Local authority appeals panels - which, she said, "too often overturn the decision of head teachers on exclusions" - would be abolished.
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