Sentences with phrase «accountability measures for»

The Cochran Firm has long advocated for strong accountability measures for those who risk innocent people's lives by driving drunk.

Taken together, Pimentel observed widespread experimentation, with most states tweaking how much the assessment counts in a teacher's annual evaluation, while others have delayed accountability measures for the foreseeable future.

The national policy landscape surrounding academic standards, assessments, accountability, and school improvement is in many respects more chaotic than ever as states transition away from strong federal systems and requirements under NCLB and once again take the lead role in defining and enforcing accountability measures for public schools.

RSCs decide whether intervention is necessary based on Ofsted's inspection results and accountability measures for school performance.

North Carolina law requires nothing in the way of academic standards, curricula or accountability measures for its non-public schools.

Accountability measures for «alternative» charter schools need to be carefully worked out as part of their authorization contracts, with additional evaluation measures clearly laid out to go along with traditional performance indicators, according to a new report from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

These Initiatives, and the ACTAAP, are the cornerstone for the improvement of academic standards and achievement, professional development and accountability measures for Arkansas schools.

-RRB- to lessen the effect that implementation of a new assessment will have on accountability measures for educators.

... I urge you to work closely with Commissioner Morath and TEA to come up with some solution to relieve the added pressure of the STAAR assessment and accountability measures for the districts that were impacted by Hurricane Harvey and are still working through the recovery process.

Testing and Evaluation This spring, the 109th Tennessee General Assembly passed the Tennessee Teaching Evaluation Enhancement Act (http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0108) to lessen the effect that implementation of a new assessment will have on accountability measures for educators.

Similarly, Evers has sought accountability measures for teachers that assess the value a teacher adds to a student's expected growth.

Wisconsin has also increased accountability measures for voucher schools, since their inception in 1990.

When I put that to someone close to Education Secretary Michael Gove, they paused a while and said «that's a good question» before stressing that the pupil premium will come with new accountability measures for schools that will show how the poorest pupils are benefiting from the extra money.

«He supports more accountability measures for every school that receives public funding,» Beyer said.

She is best known for implementation of the controversial «No Child Left Behind» accountability measures for K - 12 education.

This is despite new accountability measures for state schools that favour academic subjects, like the EBacc, and funding cuts that have seen some state schools cut back on their creative offer.

There has been a firestorm in recent months about the alleged «cap» supposedly imposed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) on the percentage of students who are eligible for special education intervention due to disabilities and the related relaxation of accountability measures for students with this classification.

This is said to be partly down to new accountability measures for schools, like the EBacc and progress 8 which encourage schools to emphasise a set of GCSEs which do not include the arts.

Making sure students know what your expectations are for their involvement, support their complete investment by having them create mutual accountability measures for Student / Adult Partnerships.

But the renewal guidance focuses on making sure meaningful interventions are happening for students when needed, closing achievement gaps and intensifying the focus on accountability measures for all high - risk student groups.

Alongside its demand for new accountability measures for schools, the report suggests reforms to pupil premium funding so it can «better target funding for disadvantage» by allocating more to pupils eligible for free school meals «throughout their schooling», and the establishment of a Northern Powerhouse Schools Improvement Board.

Continue reading Hearing on HB 1263, increasing accountability measures for homeschoolers, on January 25 at 1 p.m.

A key provision of the Assembly's effort to revise accountability measures for Wisconsin schools was removed Wednesday, ahead of the proposed legislation's first hearing.

It sets out how we'll calculate primary school accountability measures for the school performance tables.

It's time that Albany strengthens the laws to ensure that charter operators admit children with special needs and that they comply with the same accountability measures for enrollment that neighborhood schools must adhere to.

In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups focused more on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate action to fix failing schools.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

They include greater accountability measures for the awarding of government contracts, more transparency for «lump - sum» budget appropriations and expenditures, and limits on outside income for lawmakers.

On top of the 60 per cent pass rate for GCSEs, Morgan explained the new «Progress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary education.

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

The NCLB waivers take away that same accountability measure for the top 85 % of schools.

The tools provide baseline chronic absence levels — a key accountability measure for Local Control Accountability Plans.

Accountability for addressing chronic absence: Under California's Local Control Funding Formula, chronic absence is an accountability measure for pupil engagement.

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is the state assessment and accountability measure for Illinois students enrolled in a public school district.

The problem is that, instead of assessment being the basis for professional judgements about the effectiveness of the education provided for the learner, the core purpose of these tests is to be an accountability measure for institutions.

While college - degree - earning rates may be important, the longer - lasting and still barely noticed development here is the declaration by the KIPPs, Uncommons, Achievement Firsts, YES Preps, and other networks across the country that earning college degrees should be the ultimate accountability measure for their high schools.

Policies that use standardized test scores as the most important accountability measure for schools, teachers or students, and / or expand the use of standardized testing in our schools.

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Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Shareholder Proposals on Information Requests Only Shareholder proposals have rightly played an important role in prodding companies both to adopt governance measures and to disclose campaign spending, often following a model developed by the Center for Political Accountability.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

Each of us also possesses some measure of genuine freedom, with its corollary of some measure of responsibility or accountability for our decisions made in that freedom.

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

Additional Accountability Requirements: The State Board of Education amended its Health, Wellness, and Safety Policy in 2006 to require the Department of Education to create a plan for measuring implementation of the wellness policy.

The answer is not just to ignore those skills — it's to look for better measures; it's to be more flexible in terms of how that accountability works.

The proposals for the National Curriculum and the present school accountability measures, which do not recognise vocational subjects, will continue to ensure that they are not given the status or space in the curriculum they deserve.

We expect many of the concepts associated with NPM such as active management, public accountability through performance measures, and a strong focus on cost, will remain important for some time to come.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

The Chicago Teachers Union has never gotten over its resentment for Duncan, who served as Chicago superintendent of schools from 2001 to 2009 and implemented many of the same accountability measures that Bush and Obama embraced.

Now, the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), headed by Vince Cable is seeking to introduce new measures on corporate transparency and accountability.