Sentences with phrase «schools are accountable for»

Influenced and affected by the role of accreditors, schools are accountable for continually working to improve the quality and results of the education they provide.

Charter schools are accountable for academic results and for upholding the promises made in their charters.

One example: NCLB says schools are accountable for the progress of subgroups of students — such as those with disabilities or those who are not fluent in English — only when there's a critical mass of at least 100 students in that subgroup on a given campus.

Schools are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing characteristics of those learners.

Charter schools are accountable for the same academic results as traditional district schools, and for upholding the promises made in their charters.

For example, if teachers and schools are accountable for student outcomes, then districts and policymakers are accountable for providing them with the tools, training, and support to be effective.

Second, in deciding policies, schools are accountable for democratic and public deliberations; even with recent revelations of corrupt practices among CEOs and boards of directors and meltdowns in the mortgage lending community, minimal public oversight of corporate governance currently exists.

Charter schools are accountable for their performance on state standardized tests administered each spring.

They should not create a situation where some schools are accountable for 25 things and other schools are only accountable for five things.

Outside of the school inspection process that the KIPP Foundation conducts, the schools are accountable for their own results and school culture.

They need to do a great job in educating children, and we need to insist on schools being accountable for education.

Under NCLB, all schools were accountable for the proficiency of all subgroups of students, whereas under the Obama administration's waivers, only the bottom tranche of schools face consequences.

The National Reading Panel (NRP) study in 2000 identified the specific components necessary to teach reading, and the subsequent passage in 2001of the No Child Left Behind Act and its accompanying Reading First initiative mandated that schools be accountable for providing scientific, research - based reading programs (with financial block grants to states that adopt such curriculum).

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Someone who was not held accountable for their actions when they were expelled from school.

The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

Schools with the best facilities and the highest «paid teachers often fail because they are ultimately accountable to bureaucrats for regulatory compliance, instead of to parents for results.

I love the idea of them being accountable for their school lunches.

It criticises the «complete lack of transparency» around the Department for Education's free schools programme and the lack of robust processes to ensure that free schools are properly scrutinised and accountable on grounds of racial equality.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

Mr. de Blasio has said he'll be held accountable for schools, and that if they don't improve within three years, he'll close them — something he criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg for doing, arguing the process happened too hastily.

It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

«It's time they be held accountable for their enrollment, discipline and special education policies like every public school is.»

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Teachers understand the need for schools to be accountable.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

«We want safety in our schools, but we want the government to be accountable for every Nigerian child; not just in the northern part of the country but across the whole country,» she said.

«If it is about choice for parents and the public, evidence shows that what parents and the public want are good local schools run by local councils, democratically accountable to local communities.

Schools may be held accountable for teenage pregnancy rates under new government plans to improve pupils» wellbeing.

The letter says that one of the chief reasons for mayoral control is to hold one person accountable for the schools.

«The successes we're seeing in our schools are the direct result of accountable mayoral control,» said Karen Hinton, a spokeswoman for de Blasio.

«Teachers understand the need for schools to be accountable.

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

«I am ready to go head - to - head with Mayor de Blasio and hold him accountable for his lack of leadership and mismanagement of the subway crisis, traffic nightmares, rise in homelessness and failing schools,» Malliotakis said of the news that her opponent dropped out.

«It works for your children if the mayor is accountable for the schools,» McCray added.

«As an Independent I am really honored that the Republican Party will support me for state senate and agrees with my focus on jump starting the economy, creating jobs, improving schools and health care and reforming government to make it more transparent and accountable.

While supporters of mayoral control over the schools say it is designed to make one person accountable, Benjamin said that's not always the case, noting de Blasio, because of term limits, is a lame duck for the next four years.

«The pressure I feel as the person accountable for our schools is to make sure our kids are getting what they need, and I'm accountable to their parents.

And the mayor has repeatedly argued that mayoral control makes clear that he is ultimately accountable for the city's schools, and that voters will hold him so come 2017.

No Child Left Behind was championed as a way for parents to hold schools accountable for the quality of education they deliver.

The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is offering free technical assistance to help primary care practices and health care organizations, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), improve the quality and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illnesses.

I draw the comparison because Moyle, like Hughes (and unlike the hucksters behind the countless failed high - school romps of the past two decades), has empathy for his young characters — though Hughes was less reluctant to hold them accountable for their angst, marking Moyle as the bigger suck - up — and because he leans towards having an aesthetic, especially in Empire Records, that favours, as Hughes's does, quarantining close - ups and medium close - ups.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her studenFor example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her studenfor all of her students.

What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.

In this essay, Elmore sets forth a novel vision for school leadership that would not reside with individuals, but would instead be distributed among various branches that are fully accountable not only to one another and to teachers, but also to the marketplace — in this case, parents and students.

The bill's aim — to raise standards and performance for all students and to hold schools accountable for their results — was enacted with broad bipartisan support.

But in the absence of policies that hold high schools accountable for the remediation rates of their graduates, it's hard to imagine they'll have much incentive to change.

Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yeaFor high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yeafor making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

As Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger point out (see «Randomly Accountable,» in this issue), test scores bounce up and down from year - to - year for a variety of reasons that are unrelated to actual school performance.