As Schools Open, New Powers for Some Principals
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Principals of so-called ÂempowermentÂ schools have signed agreements giving them greater managerial freedom in exchange for meeting targets for student progress.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, one principal has outlasted his predecessors while producing surprising results.
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A curriculum shake-up will see children spending more time learning through play at primary school.
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By Joann DiGennaro  WASHINGTON  --  At an educators' meeting in Washington last fall, conversation turned to whether the federal government should support programming for this nation's most gifted and talented high school students.
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The government wants to keep schools open longer - to provide more childcare and welfare services.
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Authorities crack down on many of the schools, which operate outside the public system and whose quality varies.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.
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As an elementary school principal in Washington, Sheila Ford had to adapt to the haphazard D.C. public school bureaucracy.
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By Mensah M. Dean, Philadelphia Daily News  Sep. 7--When Philadelphia public school students begin classes today, a small number will enter new facilities, including those selected to attend the Microsoft Corp.-aided School of the Future.
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The fire chief is likely to go. The police chief is probably out, too. And the superintendent of public schools will have to pick up his pace.
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Schools are being given rules for how they use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints.
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Schools in 13 English  local authorities are piloting a new way of structuring the school year which should roll-out widely from 2005.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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The Supreme Court affirmed wide authority for school administrators to regulate students' speech today, allowing principals to punish pupils who make any in-school speech or demonstration that may "reasonably be viewed" as promoting illegal drug use.
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It didn't take long for the new coaches of three soccer powers to make their marks.
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New school diplomas, combining work experience and academic study, could replace A-levels and CSCEs as the exam of choice for school-leavers after a review due in 2013, Schools' Secretary Ed Ball has announced.