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Richard Churches; Richard Warenisca; Tricia Bunn; Tom Bennett – Education Development Trust, 2025
Behaviour Hubs is a one-year programme of support (two years for multi-academy trusts [MATs]), available across England to mainstream primary and secondary schools, special schools and alternative provisions (such as pupil referral units). It aims to help senior leaders create the conditions for an effective and sustainable behaviour culture…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Trusts (Financial), Secondary Schools, School Culture
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2018
Over the past decade, charter schools have gained a prominent role in the debate over how to improve K-12 education, becoming one of those rare ideas that attracts bipartisan support. Yet as charter schools have expanded and begun educating more American school children, so has discussion over the role charter schools should ultimately play in our…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Role, Public Education
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Ochieng, Haggai Kennedy; Yeonsung, Cho – SAGE Open, 2021
In the year 2000, a global agenda to achieve quality education for all children by 2015 was birthed. However, even after the lapse of this period, quality of education remained low in developing countries. In light of this, the World Bank developed a framework for assessing education quality based on six facets, namely, assessment; autonomy;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Institutional Autonomy
Aragon, Stephanie – Education Commission of the States, 2015
The first charter school law surfaced in Minnesota in 1991, and since then, 42 additional states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have passed laws governing charter schools. Yet still today, the details within those state laws vary significantly, and seven states do not have a law at all. Legislation permitting charter schools was…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Legislation, Comparative Analysis, Accountability
Campbell, Christine; Binder, Libuse – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2014
The 2013 merger of Memphis City Schools (with 103,000 students) and Shelby County Schools (with 47,000 students) was the largest school district consolidation in American history. In its first year of operation, the new Shelby County Schools (SCS) commissioned CRPE researchers to perform a critical review of the district's readiness to implement a…
Descriptors: School Districts, School District Reorganization, School Choice, Institutional Autonomy
Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
The portfolio strategy is a performance management model for districts that aims to create dramatic student achievement gains at scale. It centers on creating more high-quality schools regardless of provider, giving schools autonomy over staff and funding, and holding all schools accountable for performance. This one-pager outlines the seven key…
Descriptors: Public Education, School Districts, Educational Administration, School Choice
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2015
Parental demand for charter schools is at an all-time high. The goal of a high-performing charter school policy is to increase access to the best charter schools by identifying schools with a demonstrated record of improving student learning and giving those schools the opportunity to grow. This policy overview document introduces charter schools,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High Achievement, School Policy, Public Schools
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Suetomi, Kaori; Murray, Nadezhda – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2014
The conditions required for a reform of the educational finance system as the foundation of compulsory education are 1) devolution to schools and introduction of national standards in order to deal with "individual equality" while compensating for the insufficiency of "aspectual equality," and 2) dealing with educational needs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Compulsory Education
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Woods, Philip; Simkins, Tim – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
The structure of the English school system has been the subject of almost continuous change since the late-1980s. The most recent was commenced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government, which was elected in May 2010. This policy set in train, very quickly, processes through which all schools have been encouraged, and in some cases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Districts, Educational Finance
Yatsko, Sarah – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
In November 2010, Baltimore's Fund for Education Excellence and the Annie E. Casey Foundation approached the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and requested a case study of the implementation of Baltimore City Public Schools' (City Schools) portfolio strategy. These local foundations were interested in understanding how the district…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Administration
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Cyprès, Autumn Tooms – School Leadership & Management, 2014
This is a look at the political games within games that are enmeshed in a high-profile, heavily funded, politically charged collaborative focused on preparing new school leaders between a large prestigious university and a circle of school leaders and policymakers. This case specifically considers how power and money corrupt the original vision…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Leadership Training, Partnerships in Education, Educational Cooperation
Gustafson, Joey; Keller, Eric; LaVallee, Robert E.; Stewart, Nichole H. – Finance Project, 2010
A basic premise of charter school reform in public education is offering more autonomy in the use of funds and the design of curriculum in exchange for greater accountability in academic and financial outcomes. This premise poses a significant policy challenge for state policymakers to establish an appropriate level of regulation; charter schools…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Intervention, Money Management, Laws
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2013
The distinctive role of the university in society is always fragile and always in jeopardy. At its core, that role is primarily extending and deepening human understanding through research, scholarship, and teaching. This report presents an analysis of the following 12 collaborations between Canadian Universities and corporations, donors, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Universities, Corporations
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Kallison, James M., Jr.; Cohen, Philip – Innovative Higher Education, 2010
Over the past few decades, America's social compact for higher education as a public good has effectively lapsed as government support of higher education has diminished. Given the need for a highly educated workforce in today's knowledge-based global economy, we propose a new compact for higher education that couples increased funding with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Accountability, Government Role
Toutsi, Cristin; Novak, Richard – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2011
This report represents the latest State Governance Action Report (SGAR) covering current or just recently completed legislative sessions. Among the most important issues being considered are management autonomy, such as relaxed rules for purchasing, procurement, and human resources, and greater fiscal autonomy measures such as carry-over budgeting…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Educational Finance, Human Resources, State Regulation
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