Sentences with phrase «school accountability scheme»

Two testing bills are central to Florida's downward spiral defense of its crumbling A-F School Accountability scheme.

Sen. Bill Montford, Executive Director of FADSS, and former Leon County Superintendent, has repeatedly warned his Senate colleagues, Commissioner Stewart and the BOE that the public credibility of the A-F School Accountability scheme is damaged beyond repair.

First, the administration will need to decide how to enforce states» compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to No Child Left Behind that defines states» school accountability schemes going forward.

Or who decides what the right mix of academic and non-academic factors is in school accountability schemes?

Not exact matches

It is sheer folly, for instance, to expect school districts to vigorously implement an accountability scheme that disrupts their school assignment procedures, drains money from their coffers, and threatens their administrative autonomy.

Instead of arguing whether charter schools should be included in No Child Left Behind, a more fruitful question is how to ensure that state accountability schemes allow enough flexibility for boutique programs within the public system while not opening up loopholes that low - quality schools can slip through.

Although it's not possible to attribute these declines to any specific education policy, it's also hard to conclude that incentive schemes and new school accountability arrangements in these countries have had a positive impact on student performance.

Here, as in other writings, Giroux laments the «proletarianization of teacher work,» their demotion to «high - level clerks,» and their «deskilling» and «demoralization,» all of which he blames on a conservative - driven «emphasis on accountability schemes, teaching to the tests, and... the growing corporatization of the schools.»

Second, although the Swedish voucher scheme requires private schools to follow the same curricular framework as public schools, they operate independently in many respects and are not held to the same level of accountability.

Over the past eight years, NAESP has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill on behalf of Pre-K-8 principals to address the many challenges that educators have faced due to the shortsighted one - size - fits - all federal accountability requirements, misguided school improvement schemes, and little to no capacity - building for educators to ensure effective practice is supported.

The bill arrived in the House containing some rare charter school accountability measures such as preventing operators from profiting off of third party real estate schemes.

This information can fill the need cited by many of the most vociferous critics of accountability schemes in education, who have railed against reliance on students» academic test performance as the sole criterion for judging school quality.

Proponents of school choice, charter schools and test - based accountability schemes point to Hartford as a national model for change.

Replace the current national accountability scheme based on high stakes tests with state - led accountability systems, returning responsibility for measuring student and school performance to states and school districts.

«Vouchers, by any name, are a scheme that strips critical funds from public schools and gives a discount to individuals who can already afford private school, and all at taxpayer expense and with zero accountability,» said Kathy Miller, head of the liberal advocacy group Texas Freedom Network.

A hallmark of the Broad - style leadership is closing existing schools rather than attempting to improve them, increasing class size, opening charter schools, imposing high - stakes test - based accountability systems on teachers and students, and implementing of pay for performance schemes.