Sentences with phrase «accountability requirements»

At least a dozen states mandate or allow the use of one of these tests to satisfy some federal accountability requirements.

With the advent of new accountability requirements, however, things changed.

The opportunity for choice to further strengthen schools only comes when all schools receiving public dollars — including charter and magnet schools — face the same reporting and accountability requirements as traditional schools.

We need to support administrators, too, as their jobs keep getting more and more complex with increased accountability requirements, but that is fodder for another column.

Results are important for every administrator — to ensure that their programs are addressing student needs as well as fiscal accountability requirements, producing a strong return on investment.

Even in states with better accountability requirements, voucher programs have failed students.

Establish meaningful public reporting and accountability requirements regarding student achievement in each of these disciplines at the school, district, and state levels.

Those waivers, in turn, have their own accountability requirements.

However, it has failed to keep pace with subsequent developments in company law and accountability requirements given the size and numbers of Indigenous corporations today.

The agreement should have accountability requirements along with consequences if they fail to meet the agreement.

Schools and school divisions must meet or exceed all applicable state and federal accountability requirements.

removal from the Native Title Act of certain accountability requirements for funding previously imposed by FaHCSIA;

This booklet provides information on basic bookkeeping for non-profits and outlines the financial accountability requirements of registered charities under the Income Tax Act.

Accountability requirements under ESSA suggest several ways that states can align accountability measures with such goals.

Superintendents are stressed by trying to meet accountability requirements while responding to the concerns of educators and the community.

The position of marginalized groups and individuals in decentralized and privatized systems and the role of accountability requirements in governance and decision - making are primary preoccupations in her research.

Outstandingly managed the financial accountability requirements for a 1.8 billion dollar annual budget in the acquisition of major shipboard missile systems.

Unfortunately, pre-k standards are often designed to ensure that providers meet a minimum floor of quality — unlike charter school accountability requirements, which encourage them to pursue ever - higher levels of quality.

Superintendents and teachers along the Gulf Coast said their districts continue to struggle to provide resources more than two months after the storm, and said the state should do whatever it can to delay or waive accountability requirements for the 2017 - 18 school year.

In addition to meeting ESSA accountability requirements, the inclusion of chronic absence in state accountability rubrics also provides real opportunities for states, districts and philanthropists to achieve the goals of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, to increase the number of children from low - income families reading proficiently at the end of third grade.

As such, NEA urges legislators to address ESEA reauthorization issues by focusing on ensuring equity, updating accountability requirements based on multiple measures that emphasize and support school improvement, and providing sustainable support and technical assistance for priority schools.

Obama used the White House speech to announce that he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would roll back certain accountability requirements of NCLB, a decade - old bipartisan education law that has been up for re-authorization since 2007.

The bill revises numerous provisions related to charter schools and adds new academic accountability requirements for charter schools graded D or F, including the development and implementation of school improvement plans.

Charter schools are public schools that may be exempt from certain regulations depending on state law, resulting in varying accountability requirements.

This data is used to inform each site's continuous program improvement efforts, individualize their practices to the needs of the children and families they serve, and to satisfy accountability requirements set by funding agencies.

As long as we believe that most program participants have interests that are aligned with those of the taxpayer, let's design school choice programs like we design most government programs — without performance accountability requirements.

Massachusetts charter schools appear to face more stringent accountability requirements than do traditional public schools.

(Schools and districts were held accountable for CCSS based on a waiver of the No Child Left Behind accountability requirements granted by the U.S. Department of Education.)

Governments have generally failed to meet this fundamental accountability requirement because they have not ensured adequate, equitable funding and because they have primarily emphasized test scores.

(Calif.) Bowing to pressure from legislative leaders and advocates for low - income students, the Brown administration has promulgated draft regulations imposing far more accountability requirements over billions in new school funding than originally proposed.

And, to be fair, that's still the case for some voucher and tax credit scholarship programs, where test - based accountability requirements remain light to nonexistent.

He argued that teachers should be granted charters to run public schools of choice, free from the regulations that frustrate teachers, but subject to strict accountability requirements.

The ACGR, which states use to fulfill accountability requirements under the No Child Left Behind law, has climbed 2 percentage points since 2011, when the Education Department first started requiring states to calculate and report graduation rates using this method.

In this issue's Forum (page 55), Theodore Sizer contends that charter schools need the freedom to innovate and distinguish themselves, while Michael Petrilli explains why charter schools, too, should be subject to NCLB's core accountability requirements.

Interest groups concerned with some of the testing and accountability requirements began circling.

Instead, LEAs will receive funding based on the demographic profile of the students they serve and will be expected to meet enhanced accountability requirements.

Candidate identifies accountability requirements for ELL success and prescribes specific actions by stakeholders to achieve ELL learning goals.

Education Week spoke with Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN) at the Republican National Convention about the potential impact a Trump or Clinton presidency would have on ESSA: When discussing accountability requirements under Trump, Sen. Alexander noted that the presumed Republican presidential nominee will «enforce the new...

This blog details how Charter Oak Unified School District's superintendent balanced his district's many accountability requirements with producing an LCAP that was accessible and responsive to his community's priorities.

Webinar panelists describe how state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) can use the crosswalks to build linkages for career guidance and discuss why SEAs and LEAs need to use a validated resource for reporting Perkins accountability requirements.