Sentences with phrase «believe local accountability»

We believe local accountability for education results should be vested in elected school boards.

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Adam believes it is this visibility which will force accountability and responsibility from elected officials charged with the fiscal decisions of local, city, state and federal government offices.

Now plans led by the chancellor, George Osborne, to reinvigorate the idea of «city region» deals outside London, such as the Northern Powerhouse, could offer the chance to bring back some of the local accountability for education that some believe has been stripped out of the system.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

The Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (see sidebar, page 16), of which I am a member, believes that an evolved form of the ESEA that retains rigorous accountability is preferable to returning control of public schooling to local public - school monopolies and states, which will fall into old habits all too quickly.

In addition, since these assessments are self - report surveys, there is also the issue of response bias — meaning a student's tendency to give answers that they believe are socially acceptable or to consistently answer «yes» or «no» regardless of the question asked.48 Since self - report measures tend to be weak in reliability and validity, state and local policymakers should refrain from including measures of learning mindsets and skills in high - stakes accountability systems.

• Until and unless there is sufficient accountability of charter school operations, including increased federal support for state and local oversight agencies, we believe that states and districts are acting responsibly in capping the number of charter schools and should not be punished for doing so.

There was a considerable majority who believed that the National Representative Body will need an active process for grounding its thinking in local / regional knowledge and views and would need broad forums to canvas policy views and to provide an accountability mechanism.