Sentences with phrase «around holding schools accountable»

The 1990s energy around holding schools accountable for results — while simultaneously cutting the strings that held them back — has morphed into an enthusiasm for prescription and regulation of the sort that reformers once decried.

Not exact matches

When it comes to holding principals accountable in his effort to turn around struggling city schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to take a page out of the police playbook.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

Perhaps it is time for central government to yield some of the control over standards and accountability that it has amassed in the last 30 years in exchange for the opportunity for districts and schools to innovate around what students are taught and how the actors in the system are held accountable.

To turn around Newark schools, Mayor Booker has to take bold actions and willingly be held accountable by the public for the results.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted that holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

For example, he said that even as the administration has called for wrap - around supports beyond schools — in areas like health and social services — to help children succeed academically, the president's blueprint for overhauling the NCLB law «holds schools accountable for identical results, whether or not they have these [supports].

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

In the absence of a new bill, the Department continues to hold states and schools accountable under the current law although the [Elementary and Secondary Education Act] accountability system does not conform to the Department's new priorities, particularly around growth models for student learning.

In the absence of a new bill, the Department continues to hold states and schools accountable under the current law although the ESEA accountability system does not conform to the Department's new priorities, particularly around growth models for student learning.

Meanwhile, the Common Core standards, related assessments, and how they are used to hold schools and teachers accountable will remain a top education issue within statehouses around the country and will likely continue to echo through campaign rhetoric on national and state stages.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.