State and federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific standards of academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students. (educationnext.org)
Unless the General Assembly changes the state School Report Cards law this year, there could be two different school accountability programs in North Carolina. (wakeed.org)
Under the changes being proposed to the state's A + school accountability program, Florida's annual school - by - school letter grades would be based on longitudinal data — that is, looking at how students» test scores increase or decline as they proceed through school over several years. (edweek.org)