Designating Control
Education is a significant part of every society, and its control is important. The opponents of local educational control believe that education should be controlled by the political offices and the state Department. However, the state department does not have experts of education control neither does the political office. The control of education should be assigned to individuals and groups with knowledge of education, especially those who directly participate in implementing the decisions made in the education sector. This paper is based on the argument given by the proponents of the local control of education; that control of education should be conducted at the district level through the oversight of school boards and
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The controllers must also have invested in the success and welfare of the students, the educators, and communities. The school boards and teachers’ unions are the best suited to make important decisions related to the leadership, operation, academics, staffing, improvement, and teaching. The local school committees and school boards understand the education and stakeholders and can best make the decisions and implement them. The individuals are also closest to the parents, teachers, students, and most of the times live in the school community (Horn, 2002). Membership to the committees includes the locally elected representatives who should sit in the school boards for a specified duration. Membership to the boards should be based on the proportional representation of each of the communities making up the student community in the …show more content…
The selection of the members is based on their ability to represent the interest of both the teachers and the student and the enhancement of the quality of education. With such a composition in place, all the dimensions of the challenges facing institutions of learning are observed. The group is also composed in such a way that good rules and regulations for the school community are passed while those that do not reflect the situation and the needs of teachers and their students are rejected (Theobald & Malen, 2013). Such practices cannot be effectively performed in the political offices that may not have a complete understanding of the specific needs of the school
The United States Government has fifteen Cabinet level agencies which include topics such as agriculture to foreign affairs; however, there is one specific agency that spends billions of dollars a year which may or may not be needed. The United States Department of Education is an agency that can be minimized. The United States Department of Education should be minimized and the state and local departments should be in charge of their own education policies. In 1867 the original Department of Education was created to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the states establish effective and competitive school systems. During that time the D.O.E. was called the Office of Education and didn’t have an official place in the Executive Branch.
The role of school boards “is to establish a vision for the community's schools that reflects a consensus of the board, community and district staff.” Although this is their main purpose, they also have to balance a district budget, create a district-yearly calendar, negotiate contract, construction, and approve district curriculum. (Stover 1) Although it might seem harsh to argue with school boards even though they do a lot, it is their job. They were appointed to lead and better the community, guide our children. If they are not mentally ready to be a leader, then why run for a school board member, the focus should be on the children, how to better education for them, and how to make sure they get the most out of every day coming to school.
Leaders in the school have hard decisions to help make on a daily basis. They need to evaluate their decisions to make sure they are ethical and effective. Administrators need to listen to all sides of a situation and evaluate all options before they make a decision. This process is difficult because administrators need to make sure that all parties involved are satisfied with the decision that was formed.
educational policy NCLB and overseen by the U.S. Department of Education, the Tenth Amendment gives the state the autonomy to oversee its own educational system. Thanks to the power given to each state by the Tenth Amendment each state has its own standards and curriculum to which it has students adhere to ensure that they have a mastery of certain educational skills, in order for that to be possible there have to be “50 departments of education, overseeing some 16,000 school districts that serve 52 million students in more than 10,000 schools” (Eisner, 2001,
In this paper I will detail the reasons for my support of school choice, because its success does not necessarily rely on a change in all of the educational institutions involved. Rather, school choice allows a fundamental shift in how we participate in the education of our children. It involves the act of volition, and constitutes a practice that had generally been reserved for most other aspects of American society: free choice.
There are no references to education in the Constitution, but it does speak of the operation and management of the schools and the protection of the students’, faculty’s, and staff’s individual rights. There are many issues, both social and economic, that requires legal action. Children are the future of the society, so therefore, the state must keep track on issues that may arise in the schools. This paper will explore the law and its application to issues in the school district.
The school categories are conventional, congenial, or collegial. These three categories are distinguish by discussing the style that the principal administers the school (Glickman et al., 2010). Each individual category gives out a different outcome. A conventional administration or leadership it is recognized by the lack of communication among the staff and the administrator, also, the independence of the teachers is evident, it is no common goal it is a more individual goals setting, usually the responsible for everything are the students and teachers...
As a leader candidate, I can understand the challenges and multiplicity of complications that administrators must face each day. However, I will not accept any remote possibility that the students must be affected by some flaws of the school organization. We all as leaders, must be strategic with people, time, and money to guide our students towards an academic success.
Underwood, J. (2011). Who Controls Public Schools? What Rules Affect You? Educational Horizons, 89(3), 28.
School administrators are important in setting the path for a successful school (Glickman, et al., 2014). The principals could play a dynamic leadership depending on how they exercise their beliefs of the organizational and social environment (McNair, 2011). The principals are the primary facilitators for developing the foundations in learning that will last, to manage the student’s performance at schools, and seeking the improvement at school that will cause great impacts in school‘s education (Gordon,1989). In the recent years in the U.S., education has change in a more cultural diversity population, it is imperative that school supervisors, are trained to encounter this cultural issues, but also assisting others with the opportunities to develop appropriate abilities to deal with different cultures (Glickman, et al., 2014).
The school governors set the standards and policies for pupils and all staff, and they also set and monitor the schools aims. SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM. The school’s senior management teams or otherwise known as the leadership team work in close relation with the Head teacher. This team is generally made up of staff members whom all have management
With the passage of NCLB, many school reform efforts have been initiated using top-down model in which each school leaders have been charged with initiating bold administrative changes to address the legislation. With the number of leadership theories and models, researchers have become interested in studying those to determine which might bring forth the most significant results for leading such change. Due to the lack of highly qualified administrators and the increasing demands for administrators, Bush, O’Brien & Spangler (2005) studied a program, the Southern Tier Leadership Academy, a collaborative of the New York Education Department. The study included three separate cohorts who completed an eight month program. Whereas, Somech (2005) chose to investigate directive and participative leadership approaches, and which would more significantly impact school effectiveness. Perhaps Somech’s reflect Scherer’s (2009, p.7) understandings as described in Educational Leadership, ‘broom-wielding leadership can indeed be beneficial’ as is putting advocates into positions of power and influence and building teams, both of which are seemingly contrasting opposites.
In regards to school finance, the ultimate goal of school administrators is to provide all students with the most cost effective, comprehensive education that meets all federal, state, and local requirements and that reflects the values and beliefs within the community. This means that it is an expectation for schools to equip all students equally with the best possible educational opportunities that a community is willing to furnish. However, to accomplish this, school administrators must be able to sustain school programs throughout various economic periods.
The meeting began when the school board members entered the large group instruction room and took their seats at a panel table angled to the side of the audience. The school board consists of nine elected members from the community. The members are as follows: Paul Ridley (President), Pat Vigliotta (Vice President), Helen Cumminskey (Secretary), Carla Manion ( Asst. Secretary), Timothy Bean (Treasurer), David Feely (Board Member), Keith Hatch (Board Member), Shane Oschman (Board Member), and Joseph Troutman (Board Member). Three members of the board were missing; however because of where the seats were located I could not see who was missing. Also, the member did not introduce themselves and left before people could address them.
President George Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” fails to focus on the recruitment and diversity within the profession. He sets a goal for the year 2005 for every classroom to have a quality teacher but no goal for retaining these teachers. The improvement of the profession requires a national step-by-step effort. The purpose of this paper was to gather and explore information on the teaching profession and with it explore the shortage within in order to educate and strike up reform. It is clear, that reform will require a lot of time and money. The end product however, will show success within the profession thereby equaling success in the classroom. Success comes when present in the classrooms are caring and committed teachers, all with the goal of education and diversity is among them. .