Sentences with phrase «accountability efforts under»

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Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

Certainly, the history of school accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools under IASA would justify such suspicions, and some examples of what schools are doing in response to NCLB restructuring sound very feeble.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

I am an education policy researcher who's taken a few detours into policy jobs — once in the Office of Data and Accountability of DC Public Schools, and once as the Deputy of Educator Preparation for the State of Delaware under its Race - to - the - Top efforts.

The move to ditch AYP and the underlying goal of forcing states and districts to take responsibility for how they educate poor and minority kids, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very initiatives Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

Title I Accountability and School Improvement Efforts From 2001 to 2004 (2006) examines the implementation of accountability and school improvement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementAccountability and School Improvement Efforts From 2001 to 2004 (2006) examines the implementation of accountability and school improvement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementaccountability and school improvement under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) from 2001 - 02, the year before NCLB went into effect, through 2003 - 04, the second year of implementation of NCLB.

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

No one should be surprised that the U.S. Department of Education's new guidance for 41 states to renew the waivers granted to them under the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions effectively allows states to get away with continuing their shortchanging of poor and minority children.

That's according to a recently released report from New America Foundation policy analyst Anne Hyslop, who compared accountability under NCLB to state - led efforts the next school year.

I think in the early years of Bennett's administration he alienated a lot of support from teachers in Indiana in part because he was so accountability - oriented... That relationship seems to have recovered a bit over time as he's made substantial efforts in the last two years to foster better relationships with school corporations and teachers and to help them implement their teacher accountability policies under Senate Enrolled Act 1, but he never fully recovered from the first couple of years.

(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.

An effort to develop a statewide school accountability system marks a turning point in Wisconsin, education experts said last week as a public effort to design the system got under way.

Purpose — The primary purpose of the accountability system the state must develop in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is to appropriately identify schools with performance issues for comprehensive and targeted support and improvement efforts as required under ESSA.

Local school improvement planning efforts are set to begin this upcoming fall and will have serious implications for those schools defined as «underperforming» under a given state's accountability system.

The shift toward accountability policies for schools over the past two decades — first introduced in some states, and made national under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into law in 2002 — has been an important part of these efforts.

This flexibility is intended to build on and support the significant State and local reform efforts already under way in critical areas such as transitioning to college - and career - ready standards and assessments; developing systems of differentiated recognition, accountability, and support; and evaluating and supporting teacher and principal effectiveness.

By effectively ditching No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very reforms Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.

So efforts are under way to set up an international accountability mechanism.