The scandal contributed to the passage of a tighter charter - school accountability law that took effect in the state last year. (csmonitor.com)
Participating schools must administer state assessments to scholarship recipients in compliance with state accountability laws. (ncsl.org)
But Tennessee earned almost full marks (98 percent) on the section of the competition (weighted a substantial 14 percent of all possible points) devoted to «adopting standards and assessments,» even though its standards have remained extremely low ever since the federal accountability law took hold. (educationnext.org)