Sentences with phrase «about holding schools accountable»

«I think it's important to remember that the API is about holding schools accountable; holding districts accountable; it's not about holding students accountable,» Charlie Hoffman, superintendent of Shasta - Trinity Regional Occupational Programs in Redding, told the group gathered at the Sacramento County Office of Education.

But two of the leading proponents for incorporating these concepts alongside traditional academics have expressed concern about holding schools accountable for emotional and social learning.

And the charter school law is really all about holding schools accountable for student outcomes and for fiscal stability.

Not exact matches

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

The selection has raised larger questions about who should finance education, how schools should be held accountable, and even how we define the value of a public school system.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

But choice works only if choice systems are equitable, schools are held accountable by the state or school district, and parents are given readily understandable information about school quality.

Equity is fundamentally about fairness and resources, and it should be a funding decision, not something we hold individual schools accountable for.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

I tell them that they're being paid with public funds to serve the public's kids, and therefore it's inevitable (and appropriate) that public officials will have a lot to say about how schools work and how they're held accountable.

It took another authorization and a clear signal from the Bush administration that the federal government was serious about accountability in order for the states to come up with plans to hold their own schools and districts accountable.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

«What they care about is a Supreme Court that continues to hold the Legislature accountable for their constitutional obligations under school finance.

In the report, Jerald examines the rigor involved in a school inspection in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and to hold schools accountable for performance.

In this new political climate, debates about private - school choice have become less about ideology and more about practical considerations, such as which students will be eligible, which schools will be allowed to participate, and how schools should be held accountable.

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In the New York Times, Kate Taylor writes about New York City's transfer schools and debates over the best way to hold the schools accountable for results.

Parents are adept at holding schools accountable when they are empowered with choices and armed with information about their options.

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

After more than a decade of resistance to NCLB by the education establishment, I find something disingenuous about the argument that schools ought not to be held accountable to the standards states themselves set for grade - level student achievement.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

Jerald authored «On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service,» a report examining the rigor of school inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for perforSchool Inspection Service,» a report examining the rigor of school inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for perforschool inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for performance.

Newsom has also talked about his opposition to for - profit charter schools and about holding charter schools more accountable for how they spend public money.

Chalkbeat's Matt Barnum writes that, under ESSA, schools «across the country are about to be held accountable for student attendance — attaching stakes to a measure that previously had much less significance and increasing the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data.»

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

«Our community needs to be more informed about these schools» scores, and CMOs [charter management organizations] need to be held accountable for their unacceptable performance,» said Mary Moran, executive director of Our Voice Nuestra Voz, in a press release announcing the launch of the campaign # 30NolaEdWatch, an initiative to hold these schools accountable.

Lenders should know how state laws and authorizer practices hold charter schools accountable; look at every pertinent public record including intervention and probation notices; and ask their own tough questions about trends in academic performance and evidence of fiscal stewardship.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

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Dylan Peers McCoy's recent piece for Chalkbeat and The Atlantic about how Indiana holds private schools accountable quotes what appears to be a stable of white men who lead schools, boards and associations.

«The tension that you see is that if you're very... laissez - faire about who can run a school, you will end up in a situation that you need more regulation,» Vlachos said, adding that Sweden largely trusts its schools to hold themselves accountable.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

By reducing the subgroup size across all participating districts, schools will be held accountable for reporting the progress of about 153,000 additional students who are mostly Latino, African American, English Learners, or students with disabilities.

King faced questions about his willingness to adhere to the restrictions ESSA places on the department, and the committee stressed the need for the department to balance new state flexibility with a responsibility to hold states accountable for underperforming schools.

Seeking to hold someone accountable for what happened to her daughter, Ms. Miranda went into a Department of Education building in Brooklyn to ask about filing a complaint, but was told that Success was independent from the school district.

Asked about financial risks posed by charter schools with relationships to Charter Management Organizations, many of which are for - profit, she dodged the issue, responding merely that she would work to «hold schools accountable for educating students.»

But some researchers, like Yeager, who study noncognitive traits, are expressing real concern about the trend to test them and hold schools accountable.

Fierce discussions roil across states about who should hold schools accountable, how they should hold them accountable, and what should happen if schools do not show progress for all their students.

And as a bonus suggestion, how about placing something at the bottom of every report so that we the citizens can hold legislators and our fellow voters accountable for the public school system they create?

Government does this by: maintaining a high bar for charter school authorization; holding schools accountable for performance; ensuring all schools are equitably serving all students; and communicating transparently with the public and with schools themselves about school performance — not by making day - to - day school - based decisions.

Recent research suggests that questionnaires such as CORE's are the primary tools in development to measure students» social - emotional skills.36 As SEL gains popularity in the classroom, however, there is increasing concern about the potential unintended consequences of using survey data to hold schools accountable for these competencies.

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IT personnel are seldom in a position of authority to demand from school principals or other staff that they keep their school sites current, even though the superintendent or governing board might hold them accountable for complaints from parents about out of date or inaccurate information posted on the website.

And what does it communicate about what we hold our schools accountable for?

Over breakfast in March, we talked about a movement spreading across the country to hold public - school teachers accountable by compensating, promoting or even removing them according to the results they produce in class, as measured in part by student test scores...

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