Sentences with phrase «accountability systems we have in place»

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

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Having an actual accountability system in place that weeds out the bad midwives is absolutely crucial... but that's not exactly high on the priority list of the home birth advocacy groups.

We have to put the brakes on these commercials until a system of accountability is in place, and if our targets can not be met, we should scrap the whole thing.»

For states with such accountability systems in place before 2002, NCLB's most important components may have created some logistical headaches but were largely irrelevant.

To be sure, reliable evidence (see «Evaluating NCLB,» research, Summer 2010) shows that NCLB has improved math achievement in states that did not previously have accountability systems in place.

It would be ironic and, in my view, unfortunate if, in seeking to fix No Child Left Behind, Congress were to recreate the conditions that led to the adoption of an ill - designed accountability system in the first place.

The Texas educational accountability system has been in place since 1993.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

In standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standardIn standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standardin place based on those standards.

Additionally, the federal law should have had safeguards in place so that states that were at the beginning stages of implementing accountability systems would not have an incentive to set a low bar on performance to create an illusion of progress.

Quality SEL assessments can support schools» accountability for having systems in place that teach social and emotional skills to students.

No one wants to see Indiana lose the waiver because it would mean going back to the rigid accountability system that was in place under No Child Left Behind.

As briefly noted prior, «a few states have been working to put more supportive, humane accountability systems in place, but others remain stuck in a compliance mindset that undermines their ability to design effective accountability systems» (p. vii).

Data dashboards can help alleviate some of the shortcomings in accountability systems that have been in place in the wake of NCLB and the systems that states have implemented under waivers to that law.

Right now we have a system where there is hardly any accountability of teachers — very few teachers ever lose their job no matter how they perform — and in which principals, therefore, have little reason to spend much time seriously evaluating their teachers — in fact, in some places, principals can't even walk into a teacher's classroom without following prescribed systems of forewarning.

When Texas put into place the most rigorous education accountability system in the country in 2009, we thought we were at the culmination of a journey of over 20 years toward a Texas high school diploma that truly represents post-secondary readiness, but somehow we lost our courage and the pushback to that enhanced rigor has been relentless, resulting in a lowering of expectations and a gutting of the standards.

* Accountability — House Bill 3, passed in 2009, put in place an accountability system that, when fully implemented, would represent the culmination of 20 years of evolution in public education standards and accountability based reAccountability — House Bill 3, passed in 2009, put in place an accountability system that, when fully implemented, would represent the culmination of 20 years of evolution in public education standards and accountability based reaccountability system that, when fully implemented, would represent the culmination of 20 years of evolution in public education standards and accountability based reaccountability based reform in Texas.

An accountability system would have that in place as well.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

In 2009, after almost twenty years of steady progress in raising public education standards, enhancing accountability systems, and increasing the expectations of both students and educators, Texas finally put in place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education systeIn 2009, after almost twenty years of steady progress in raising public education standards, enhancing accountability systems, and increasing the expectations of both students and educators, Texas finally put in place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education systein raising public education standards, enhancing accountability systems, and increasing the expectations of both students and educators, Texas finally put in place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education systein place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education system.

The current delivery model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «output» and performance driven.

«If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme,» Barnum writes, «in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.»

Mr. Hogan has fashioned a sensible plan to free charters from unnecessary bureaucracy while still leaving in place a strong system of oversight to ensure quality and accountability.

«We don't know a whole lot about kids using vouchers to attend schools that have been assigned grades in large part because a lot of the schools that offer vouchers do not have an A-F accountability system in place,» says Indiana University researcher Ashlyn Nelson.

Although LEAs are likely to be given a lengthy transition period before serious intervention is contemplated by either the counties or state, new federal education law — the Every Student Succeeds Act — calls on states to have new accountability systems in place for the 2016 - 17 school year.

ESSA maintains a strong focus on accountability and requires all states to have in place systems of accountability and supports that include annual accountability determinations for all public schools based on multiple indicators for the school overall and for certain subgroups of students.

At the school level, Scotland maintains accountability through a system of government inspections that has been in place in the U.K. since 1833.

Insisting upon keeping annual testing of every student in every grade keeps an unnecessarily disruptive system in place as part of an accountability system that, in fifteen years, has not yielded sufficient results to justify the sacrifices in teacher autonomy over instruction and the sacrifices in non-tested subjects being shunted aside in favor of test preparation.

Ohio was granted a waiver even though it has not formally put a accountability system in place; while the feds can let the waiver lapse if the Buckeye State fails to put it in place, the reality is that it will likely escape scrutiny regardless of what it doesn't do.

It is not clear that the teacher has accountability systems in place to ensure that students are doing what they need to be doing at each center.

If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme, in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems, and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.

It is then incumbent upon the charter school community to redouble our efforts to make sure that proper accountability systems are in place which will ensure that charter schools generate significantly higher levels of student learning than has historically been available within the traditional public education system.

Contrary to Burris» assertion that they shun accountability, charter school officials have called for better oversight instead of the hodgepodge system in place whereby 324 local, county and state agencies act as authorizers.

The next step is accountability, «having clear definitions, a lifesaving plan, and protocols and procedure oriented toward preserving life,» never sticking to the rigid systems in place but always being willing to find creative solutions to do whatever possible to save the lives of the animals in care.

There needs to be processes in place and training on the business and personal side in each of these circumstances, as well as making sure legal authority and accountability systems are in place so that in the event of a short or long - term event, they have a business to come back to and an effective advocate for their personal care and needs.