Sentences with phrase «senate school accountability bill»

Sen. Paul Farrow, R - Pewaukee, author of the Senate school accountability bill, said Tuesday the Senate will still work on its accountability bill, and is likely going to remove the legislation's proposal to create two review boards for schools at the state's DPI and Department of Administration.

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Additional Accountability Requirements: The state requires LEAs to annually complete the online Wellness Policy Builder assessment tool to document their consideration of the state's School Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) as required by Senate Bill 154.

The Senate bill would increase the cap to 460 schools from 200 schools and establish new standards for accountability and services to special education students and English language learners.

WASHINGTON — The Senate sent to President Obama an education bill that would return to the states significant control over school accountability and testing.

As of late July, both the Senate and the House bills defer to the states on the question of how to design their school accountability programs.

Also, Thursday, the chief author of the Senate's school accountability bill said he'd consider dropping a proposal to create two review boards for Wisconsin schools.

State Superintendent Tony Evers said Tuesday night before Gov. Scott Walker's state of the state address that the Senate version of the school accountability bill was «on the right trajectory» in dealing with the constitutional issues raised by the Assembly version.

The Senate version of a school accountability bill sets the Senate far apart from legislation introduced last week by Assembly Republicans and appeases some critics of the Assembly bill.

26 Accountability Measures In The Special Needs Bill March 3, 2015 by Grant Callen and Brett Kittredge Senate Bill 2695, The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, creates a pilot program to give parents the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with $ 6,500 to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

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.

The acknowledgments come as Senate and Assembly leaders prepare bills to revamp the state's school accountability system designed to gauge how well schools educate students.

The bill, approved by the state Senate last week, also requires participating schools to conduct employee background checks and strengthens financial accountability measures.

-- The Senate Education Committee today approved SB 645, a bill sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) that calls for the increase of accountability criteria for charter schools at the time of their rSchools Association (CCSA) that calls for the increase of accountability criteria for charter schools at the time of their rschools at the time of their renewal.

Assembly Republicans backed down from pushing an expansive school accountability reform bill Thursday, instead passing the more limited Senate version approved with bipartisan support.

SACRAMENTO, California — The State Senate today approved SB 645, a bill sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) that would increase academic accountability in the state's charter schools, linking their obligatory renewals to performance and enabling authorizing entities to more accurately identify persistently low - performing sSchools Association (CCSA) that would increase academic accountability in the state's charter schools, linking their obligatory renewals to performance and enabling authorizing entities to more accurately identify persistently low - performing sschools, linking their obligatory renewals to performance and enabling authorizing entities to more accurately identify persistently low - performing schoolsschools.

Proving that it can always get worse, Wisconsin Senate Republicans have entered the debate on school accountability with a proposal, Senate Bill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state AssemBill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembly.

Republican leadership kicked off the current legislative session with a pair of school accountability bills in the Assembly and Senate that would set mandatory performance standards for state schools, and perhaps sanctions for schools that don't meet them.

As the bill moves forward, we hope the Senate will continue to strengthen important provisions related to state accountability systems, such as those that both support great leaders and also identify struggling schools in need of intervention — especially those with the weakest overall performance and those with large achievement gaps.

«Unfortunately, this morning the Senate Education and Youth Committee passed a gutted bill that would actually furnish less equitable funding to our public charter schools and imposes unreasonable measures of accountability,» said Tony Roberts, president and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Assocschools and imposes unreasonable measures of accountability,» said Tony Roberts, president and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

4) Ohio: A major charter school reform bill has stalled for lack of Senate support, despite widespread criticism of Ohio's weak accountability system for charter schools.

A bill filed in the state Senate, «NC Comprehensive School Accountability,» seeks to strengthen oversight for the voucher program, but it only deals with limiting the choices of standardized tests private schools can administer in an effort to make students» academic progress more comparable and more easily understood.

He directed the statewide revision and implementation of School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs) called for in California Senate Bill No. 1400.

So we have a lot of mixed messages in this state as far as schools that are identified as turnaround or transformation; we have a new accountability system that will label districts more rigorously than they've ever been labeled before so that puts added pressure and then with Senate Bill 191 that's going to hold teachers and principals to a higher degree of accountability around effectiveness and at the same time cutting the education funding to a drastic extent.