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The intuition here is that high - scoring F schools and low - scoring D schools are very much alike initially, yet one group is subject to the accountability system's punishments (the F label and the prospect of vouchers), while the other group of schools is not.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Given that similar factors are at work in Florida's accountability system, I suspect that most, if not all, of the improvements in school performance in that state's failing schools are attributable to the state's administered accountability system, not to the voucher component of that program.

Jay P. Greene Responds: Helen Ladd is correct in saying that the Florida A-Plus program is an «accountability system with a voucher add - on,» or, as I put it more forcefully in my article, «an accountability system with teeth.»

With the advent of competitive reforms such as merit pay, test - based accountability, and market - based systems like vouchers and charters, we are already seeing unintended consequences in the forms of cheating, competition for scarce resources, and a system of winners and losers.

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.

These schools are subject the accountability systems the article decries as being absent from voucher programs and yet are still able to teach creationism.

Private schools should also be required to administer whatever tests are part of the state accountability system, if a majority of a school's students attend with the benefit of vouchers.

The A-Plus program is essentially a top - down accountability system with a voucher add - on.

Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school law; special - education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.

For instance, officials in Florida, a high - readiness state where the «A + Accountability System» doles out vouchers to students in low - performing schools, doubt that states can meet NCLB's long - term proficiency goals.

Tellingly, I did not observe similar improvements among low - performing schools under the state's old accountability system, which rated schools based on their performance but did not impose the threat of vouchers.

Some states have tied student eligibility for educational choice programs to the state's district school accountability system, offering vouchers or ESAs to students assigned to district schools receiving «D» or «F» grades, for example.

Through a voucher program, a private school can legally receive government aid and keep its religious aspects while avoiding the state's accountability system.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

There is a great deal of contention in public education around vouchers, choice, accountability systems, teacher quality, equity, and quality of education.

«I don't think she believes that private institutions in a voucher system should have to follow the accountability rules that public schools have to,» he said.

Private school vouchers drain money away from public schools; have not conclusively been proven to result in increased student achievement; reduce accountability in the education system; and ultimately harm public schools, which the vast majority of students attend.

They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.

Fordham even implicitly shows how its testing approach will eventually impact non-voucher private school students: «[i] f a private school's voucher students perform in the two lowest categories of a state's accountability system for two consecutive years, then that school should be declared ineligible to receive new voucher students until it moves to a higher tier of performance (emphasis added).»

While public charter schools with strong accountability systems can provide excellent opportunities for children, this voucher plan could leave many students vulnerable to discriminatory practices, remove critical civil rights protections, and drain funding from public schools.

The Legislature has yet to introduce a bill that would bring private voucher schools into the state's public school accountability system, though the budget requires those schools to receive report cards a year after linking to the state's student information system.

The ruling is a blow to Republicans, who have sought to diminish the power of DPI for years and have wrangled with Evers over his adoption of the Common Core State Standards, his opposition to the expansion of the state's school voucher system and how to rate schools under the state's accountability system.

Michael Lancaster, superintendent of Madison Diocese schools, said school officials who participated in a recent web - based discussion about the program have raised several questions about the program's requirements, including an annual financial audit that can cost anywhere from $ 10,000 to $ 70,000, a $ 900 registration fee and how the state's report card accountability system will apply to voucher schools.

Lawmakers plan to meet this summer to iron out legislation that creates a comprehensive school accountability system after passing a limited school accountability bill in March that didn't impose consequences for low - performing voucher schools or make changes to the state's school report card system.

By 2001, however, while running against former West High School principal Libby Burmaster, who would go on to beat him, Evers had publicly opposed the expansion of vouchers beyond Milwaukee and said the system's level of financial and academic accountability must increase.

So far, there's little research on how A-F accountability systems could impact the way families use school vouchers.

«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.

Act 55 also changed the content of the accountability reports and the methods used to determine school and district performance and improvement, established a five - star index / rating system, and required the DPI to include charter schools established under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x) and private schools participating in a parental choice (voucher) program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 in its accountability report cards.

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The study looked at the administration of the DC voucher program and found it lacked accountability and was missing the systems, procedures, and internal controls necessary to implement the program effectively.

The speaker of the state Assembly says fellow Republicans might expand school vouchers statewide regardless of whether they agree to a new school accountability system.

But critics of the program say that the vouchers siphon funds away from the underfunded public school system and sends those tax dollars to private schools without accountability and transparency measures that ensure students are indeed getting a better education.

As explained in this brief, school voucher programs that operate outside the public system with limited or no transparency and no accountability requirements do not have a track record of success.

Dan Rossmiller, a lobbyist for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, said his organization opposes vouchers, especially because the state has not included private voucher schools as part of its new accountability system.

In state after state, lawmakers sought to overhaul school funding formulas, rearrange accountability systems, and expand school choice options like vouchers, education savings accounts, and the charter school sector.

Most of the news stories about the voucher program focus generally on the debate about accountability and diverting money from the underfunded public school system.