Sentences with phrase «academic accountability efforts»

In this piece, she shares an update on the Association's academic accountability efforts.

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Through this work, we realize that schools need a framework for creating effective and sustainable behavior systems to support the academic efforts in their schools and include accountability components.

In a letter sent to superintendents and heads of charter schools on Friday, they implied that California will take the path of least resistance to federal sanctions, focusing instead on the state's effort to revise its own accountability system, using the Academic Performance Index.

(Calif.) Lawmakers appear resolute in their efforts to strengthen school district accountability under the state's new education finance system, proposing two bills that would more closely monitor spending on programs for disadvantaged youth and require proof that those students are, in fact, making academic gains or risk having funds withheld.

«Secretary Tomalis and the Corbett Administration should stop their efforts to game the system, and the General Assembly should enact meaningful reforms which address financial and academic accountability for charter schools,» says Crossey.

Others should join the effort to design fair, broad and meaningful accountability standards to boost academic performance.

And, while we do not support a complete waiver from the state's accountability system for this school year, we do encourage a state effort to recognize and make an accommodation in the academic accountability system for those schools and students impacted by Harvey.

The third component was local flexibility in organizing capacity to determine how best to meet the academic expectations.1 This structure of clear goals (standards), measures (assessments), and incentives (accountability) at the state level, combined with implementation autonomy, fit with our historical conceptions of education as a local effort.

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.

These parent involvement and engagement reflect shared accountability between schools and parents for high student achievement and efforts to building parents» capacity for using effective practices to improve their own child's academic achievement.

The availability of accurate longitudinal data on school dropouts, tied to the Academic Excellence Indicator System, is critical to maintaining the credibility of the school accountability system and to informing urgently needed strategic dropout prevention and recovery efforts.

CCSA has several years of experience designing and launching an academic accountability framework to guide advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating schools, including calling for the closure of underperforming schools.

The CCSA Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.

Since 2009, CCSA's Member Council has led CCSA's accountability advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating charter schools, including the development of CCSA's Accountability Framework that sets Minimum Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of chaccountability advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating charter schools, including the development of CCSA's Accountability Framework that sets Minimum Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of chAccountability Framework that sets Minimum Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of charter Academic Accountability Criteria to measure academic performance of chAccountability Criteria to measure academic performance of charter academic performance of charter schools.

After a year - and - a-half of work, «most board members said they were satisfied that the document meshes with and advances the state's larger comprehensive effort for school improvement combining new academic standards, more equitable funding and a locally driven accountability system.»