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It is proposed, in The Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (Bela Bill), that many of the powers currently held by school governing bodies should be centralised under the control of the provincial head of education, which would create the potential for an abuse of power.
Two years after its enactment, implementation of the No Child LeftBehind law proceeds by trial and error. Congress missed theopportunity to enact significant programmatic flexibility forstates. It should resist special interest demands for more funding(states have billions of unspent education funds), ensure effectiveimplementation of parental choice and tutoring options, and enactgreater flexibility for the states.
As the lawsuit against the 568 Presidents Group continues, supporters are encouraging students to speak out.
The fate of nearly three dozen church-linked schools in Newfoundland and Labrador is the subject of some legal wrangling as lawyers debate how to compensate abuse victims, and it could cause some serious disruption in the education system.
Northern Ireland's political deadlock is disproportionately harming the most vulnerable young people and they ‘deserve better’, says children’s commissioner