State statutes and regulations passed by state boards of education, which provide and operate public schools, charge local school boards with the responsibility of governance.The findings by Fuhrman and Elmore (1990) involving the degree of change required of local boards to comply with new state education reform policies suggested that districts sometimes leverage state mandates by using local influence to reinforce the local political agenda and engage in local policy entrepreneur ship.“In an effort to secure compliance, federal and state policymakers stretched an ever tightening regulatory net over schools, and state education departments became the enforcers” (ECS, 2002, p. 8).Opponents of this approach noted that it represents a thi...
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Such state schools supplied non-denominational training and existing religious voluntary (or Church) school served denominational needs.These schools drew their pupils from son of the middle and upper classes and use the training ground for established elite and the professions state secondary school education in early twentieth century was marginally extended to children who parents could not afford school fees- scholarships (financed grants) for clever poor children become available; some state funding was provided and more schools were created.State schooling became free and compulsory up to the age of fifteen and was dived into three stages; primary (5-11 years), secondary schools (11-150 and further post- school training.In 1944, an...
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In 2001, the president said that Ohio State has no money and therefore Supreme Court has problems (Phillis, n. d).In 1997 the decision of DeRolph I influenced the state to support public schools and since then it have provided more than five million US dollars.For example, in 2003, Coshocton County raised only 7,529 US dollars while Cuyahoga County was able to raise 17,735 US dollars of school funding from the property taxes and state.Other school struggle to raise money to cater for basic needs such as paying school librarian.Before 1997 the state did not have priorities to support public schools.
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The aim was to reduce the number of students who left the school system as soon as they were old enough to leave school (between 14 and 18, depending on the state) and who risked being marginalized in the event of economic crisis.The control given to students varies from state to state and from school to school.Indeed, many of the school districts in this state, particularly around St. Louis, are historically and still today divided into Elementary, Middle School, Junior High and High School.The distribution of grades within schools varies from state to state and even from constituency to constituency.In states where the university system is well developed, there are often mechanisms that allow gifted students still in High School to app...
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There has been some controversy over the No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2001 which allows the federal government to withhold funding if a state or local school district is not complying with the standards set forth in the No Child Left Behind Act.There is only one high school in the Cambridge Public School District, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.The Cambridge Public School District receives funds from thirteen federal grants awarded by the commonwealth of Massachusetts, eleven private grants, eleven revolving funds, ten state grants, two district federal grants, and one state-circuit breaker reimbursement.Over $3 million dollars of the Newton Public School District budget is received from a program called Circuit Breaker which al...
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Each state was given the freedom to define what grade level proficiency meant in regards to their state standards.According to No Child Left Behind schools that do not make AYP for two consecutive years will be identified for school improvement, and will have to create a school improvement plan (SIP), and apply a minimum of ten percent of their federal Title I funds to professional development.As time progresses state government will advocate for an increase in charter schools, this will allow for state funds in the form of vouchers and tax credits to support schools that do not have a religious focus (Pardini, 1999).In most cases, these programs obtained funding by either increasing taxes or by reducing state aid to local school distric...
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Although the state report card shows that Shelby County does offer a better quality curriculum in their instruction, consolidating the two school districts could improve the quality of education in the Memphis City School District.Charter schools are still in sense a part of the public school system due to the fact they are not allowed to charge tuition and most use facilities and land owned by the public school systems they’re located in.School budgets and the ways they are financed vary from state to state and school district to school district.In 2010, the Memphis City School (MSC) system made a failed attempt to merge with the Shelby County School (SCS) system through a referendum vote.Shelby county and the state of Tennessee are now...
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The most obvious image between public, and private schools comes down to cash.Most of these public schools are traditional schools with educational standards set by each state in the United ... ... middle of paper ... ... of church, and state.On the other hand, private school teachers are not required to be as qualified as a public school teacher.Financed through federal, state, and local taxes, public schools are part of a larger school system, which functions as a part of the government and must follow the rules and regulations set by politicsDue to lack of resources in many public schools; private schools should be not privatized because tuition is too expensive, private schools offer religious education, class sizes are small, and do...
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Not comprehensive state school pupils.It’s the poor souls of state school students, who have worked double as hard as private school students.In a private school you pay to make sure your child is spoon fed with everything they need to know to get 10 A*’s, and a selective state school, selects highly academic pupils, and spoon feeds them with everything they need to know to get 10A*.So even after such an outstanding change, why is it that few state school graduates are not getting into parliament and becoming MP’s?Yet these are the people who have not yet been allowed to blossom, and are constantly being put down by politicians, due to the fact they are not from a private school, or a selective state school.
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There are often three start times: for elementary, for middle/junior high, and for high school.Schooling is compulsory for all children in the United States, but the age range for which school attendance is required varies from state to state.[34] Transporting students to and from school is a major concern for most school districts.[36] All school districts establish their own times and means of transportation within guidelines set by their own state.One school district computed its cost per bus (without the driver) at $20,575 annually.
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It has been opined by many people that high school exit examinations result in an increase in the number of students who discontinue their studies, before obtaining a high school diploma.In the state of California, the Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger passed a law that exempts disabled students from taking and obtaining a pass mark in the high school exit test.The states of Arizona, California and Utah introduced high school exit examinations, in which high school students from the year 2006 have to obtain a pass mark, in order to be awarded a high school diploma.The use of exit examinations varies from state to state.In an important report relating to the implementation of the high school exit test in the state of Mississippi, sixty five ...
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Now private school offer sports that are engaged outside the school zone.A Private school is not run by the state or federal government.Through a private school can cost a lot, there is vouchers in which the families can take the tax dollar that would be directed toward a public school and use it as private school tuition.People think teachers at a private schools is more qualified then those at public school, it’s important that all teachers in a public school are state certified or, is working toward certification.A private school has the power to kick out student for any disrupts behavior in the school.
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The remaining states require students to stay in school through age 17 or 18” (The National Conference for State Legislatures, 2007).Critical Commentary on Passage #3 This passage mentions something that has been seen prior in the paper; that is the use of school resources to keep children in school who would desire otherwise (such as children who want to join the workforce, students who are ready for college and do not need to attend high school).Others point out that when a state considers legislation, such as Nebraska, allowing younger children to enter kindergarten, policymakers must understand that there is likely to be a large increase in the number of children entering kindergarten during the first year of the new policy, thereby ...
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Thus, whereas 20th-century American education began with the elementary school finishing at grade 8, the 21st century begins with the American elementary school finishing at grade 5 in many jurisdictions.Originally, elementary school was synonymous with primary education, taking children from kindergarten through grade 8; and secondary school was entirely coextensive with the high school grades 9 – 12. .The elementary school has always been the main point of delivery for primary education; and the (senior) high school has always been the focal point ofsecondary education.By the late 1960s, the lines of transition between primary and secondary education began to blur, and the junior high school started to get replaced by the middle scho...
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He claimed he had the whole school repainted, moved his office to make him more visible to the kids, separated the seventh and eighth grades into single-gender classes, and had the teachers work together for five weeks in the summer to map out the school year.Due to these differences among states, the progress in identifying low-performing schools and promoting assistance vary greatly from state to state.Through the joint efforts among the Virginia Department of Education and the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Virginia School Turnaround Specialist Program was created in 2004.Can state intervention spur academic turnaround?He pays particular importance not only to ...
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Charter schools are independent schools that are operated under a contract or charter approved by the state.So even though these schools do not have to abide by state and federal laws and regulations they must prove they are providing a valuable education to their students.In 1992, Minnesota opened the doors of the first charter school in the United States (“Resources,” 2012).In 1991, Minnesota was the first state to pass legislation to create a charter school.Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.
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Primary school programs in environmental education and physical education can be viewed (in English) (at least 200 minutes every 10 school days; 400 minutes in secondary).From the 1950s onwards, the American school system underwent major transformations: thanks to the efforts of black lawyer Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP, school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.In 1996, a popular initiative referendum in California put an end to affirmative action in the public universities of this state (proposition 209), then in Florida (2000), in the state of Washington, in Michigan and in Nebraska.They make up the school map (School districts numbering 16,000).A poorly performing school may have financial...
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For the implementation of such constitutional provisions statutes covering various aspects of school operation have been created by state legislatures.The fact is that, within a state, school district may vary concerning such points as selection of board members, mandated staff personnel policies, arrangements for financing schools, and powers of local boards, which is the basis for the policies of interaction with students and accepting the strategy of students’ rights regulation.In addition, the manner in which courts have construed a legal provision in one state, while not binding on the courts of another state, may be persuasive.” (Hamilton and Reutter vi).Nevertheless, we should realize that a school district and school board itself...
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The advantage of using the ADA over the ADM is that you would get a more accurate number of students that are actually at school most of the time during the school year.This happens enough as it is without state officials withholding state monies from certain schools.If the state was using the ADA method during this time period of the year, this particular school would not have anywhere close to accurate numbers.There are several different ways in which the state department of education collects data to use in deciding how to allocate state dollars to public schools.This would create a difference of opinion between state officials and school officials because, as an administrator of a school, I would prefer the ADM method.
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This produced the third genre of school – the junior high school – which was designed to provide transitional preparation from primary school to secondary school, thus serving as a bridge between the elementary school and the high school.Elementary schools typically operated grades Kindergarten through 6; the junior high school, often housed in the same building as the senior high school, then covered grades 7 through 9; and the senior high school operated grades 10 through 12.This change typically saw reassignment of grade 9 to the (senior) high school, with grade 6 reassigned to the middle school with grades 7 and 8.In the (diminishing) minority of areas where there is a “three-tier” system, children go to lower school or “first school...
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Therefore, the requirement that prayer should become an official element of the school day is improper and insidious (“Separation of Church and State”).The phrase existed because of Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Danbury Baptists that they should not worry because an imaginary wall between the church and the state will be established (“The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State”).All About History mentioned that the separation of the church and the state has been considered as part ad parcel of the legitimate, historical and political structure of the government and protects our freedom to practice religion (“Separation of Church and State”).Second argument, the First Amendment of the Constitution clearly mentioned the ...
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Some schools were consistently failing to meet the state standards and the students were subjected to that school’s poor performance due to the location of their residence and school boundaries.Lack of local and state control over educational funding and programs implemented and used caused inconsistency among school districts throughout the states.Different state standards have made interpreting the data difficult as well.Each state must comply with determining if a school district and its schools are achieving 100% of students being successful in meeting the standards.Parents were left with no choice or alternative nor recourse to transfer their child from a dangerous or poor performing school to a safer or academically successful scho...
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Although critics contend that students inclined to dropping out of school will quit school anyway and education is a responsibility of local and state governments and raising the compulsory school age will have little effect, research indicates there are benefits in raising the national compulsory school attendance age to 18. .Staying Cool, Surviving School: Secondary School Strategies.The pessimists will exclaim that changing the compulsory graduation age to 18 will not stop those determined to quit school from quitting and the responsibility of school laws should be left to states, however, there is a compelling body of research that indicates benefits to raising the compulsory age of school attendance to 18 nationally.Compulsory sch...
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This is a common phenomenon in our schools but many studies have reported that public school students are more prone to bullying than private school students.Each private school working independently of state follows its own hiring procedure.So on the whole private and public schools are working on the same grounds as they are both following the state laws and regulations to an extent but the level of autonomy that both sectors face separates their paths in the education sector.The admission is a quite complex procedure and only the state decides that in which school wills a certain student will get enrolled.The state laws mostly define the pay structure and all schools have to follow them.
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The difficulty with this scenario is that these students may require more individualized attention in order to meet state requirements.Consequently in low achieving schools principals may have a smaller student population resulting in less state and federal funding.Parents now have information pertaining to each school district’s performance on state exams.An impact for principals of school district and school report cards is fluctuating student enrollment.If after receiving Title I support students meet state proficiency levels the school and/or district will be removed from the needs improvement list.
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The Florida State Supreme Court ruled on January 5, 2006 that Governor Jeb Bush’s pilot voucher program was illegal because it “violates the provision in the state constitution that prohibits using taxpayer money to finance a private alternative to the public education system.” (School Choice 2006).Mr. Borsuk also found that with the exception of the element of religion in the voucher schools—an issue many feel is a violation of the separation of church and state– “it’s the same story that’s being played out in urban classrooms across America—a story of poverty, limited resources, poor leadership and broken families.Justice Donald Alexander wrote that the “state is not compelled to pay for religious education; even though the U. S. .Al...
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Huffington Post.Does giving the parents of children an option to choose what school their child goes to create a spirit of competition?That is partly the goal with the school choice reform policy proposal along with many other facets that can completely revitalize the education system in the United States."Council for American Private Education."The most popular type of private school, based on religion, is private schools that operate under the religion of Catholicism (CAPE, 2011).
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Many elite public and private schools in the United States and England introduced school uniform as a symbol of fineness and superiority (Mehrotra).No one is singled out and everyone looks the same (Advantages and Disadvantages of School Uniforms).Uniforms are supposed to be looked upon as a positive thing, because they eliminate bullying, combine social classes and gives the school campus a professional look.Students state that uniforms take away from their individuality and the ability to express themselves.The use of school uniforms has increased in the United States.
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By acts of 1830 and 1838 the legislature sought to supplement the state school fund from non-tax sources, but the fund showed little growth.In 1869, a carpet-bag constitutional convention in Virginia adopted a new state constitution which provided for the establishment of free schools throughout the state.” Let the State meet these demands and accustom the people to look to the State instead of the United States government for these improvements.He pointed out that a considerable portion of the State lying west of the Alleghany Mountains, though rich in soil, was in certain regions almost in a state of nature.Before the meeting finally adjourned, ample evidence had been given of a sincere desire to co-operate with the public school agenc...
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Faith schools are a particularly British way of accommodating religious diversity and they are not found in countries such as France where there is a definite separation between the Church and the state.In a voluntary aided school, the land and buildings are normally owned by a religious organization such as a church and the governing body is responsible for the religious instruction and the running of the school.The Church and the State continued to work closely together in education up until the 1870 Education Act, also known as The Forster Act, which introduced state funded education.There were other Christians, along with liberal Anglicans and some Jews and Roman Catholics, who preferred a different approach and in 1814 founded the B...
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