But over the next two decades the school system shifted from high autonomy and low accountability to the very reverse: low autonomy and high accountability.
It took another 25 years or so, but when I was finally, by having two kids in the public school system, getting some value out of the real estate taxes I had been paying all those years, I learned that orange and black are our town colors.
It is part of a plan for a two-tier primary and secondary school system in the county.
State and city officials said they looked to New Haven's school system, which overhauled its evaluation system two years ago.
He said the child has been very upset since the incident, even after the school system shortened the suspension from 10 to two days.
And when you take that away and that has happened to us on two different occasions, not so much with city government but within our school system, and our school system has been under emergency managers for the last three years almost four years now, and a lot of people don't feel that that's the democratic process working as it should work.
Two idealistic and frustrated teachers, Mike Feinberg and David Levin, broke away from the public school system and started KIPP.
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And the result is we have a system that minority students graduate on time from high school -maybe one out two or about 50 percent.
As evidence, union officials provided a state form filled out by DOE officials that said the evaluation system would be in effect for two years, ending with the 2013-14 school year.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Thursday the district would move to fire teachers who receive low ratings due to incompetence in two consecutive years if a new teacher-evaluation system isn't in place by the time school starts this fall.
Two weeks ago she went on a well-publicized visit to authoritarian Singapore to learn the secret of its school system's success.
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