Sentences with phrase «concerns about the accountability»

In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

Consequently, NAEP data should be relatively immune to concerns about accountability - driven test - score inflation, such as may result from «teaching to the test.»

Not least, schools are concerned about accountability and how they will be evaluated.

The extent of the deficits was revealed by BBC 5 Live Investigates and Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has said that the numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of academy trusts, which currently run more than half of England's secondary schools.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

From right to left, legislators remain concerned about accountability.

The numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of the system, said Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee.

«We are particularly concerned about the accountability provisions of the law.

Even charter schools, which some parents like, generally perform no better than public schools and increasingly have raised concerns about accountability, transparency, and draining of resources from and displacement of public schools.

Not exact matches

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»

Contributions Disclosure Act, which raises legitimate concerns about transparency and accountability of political fundraising and spending.

But behind the negativity are real concerns about competence, corruption, and accountability.

The Greater Manchester city - deals provide a good snapshot of this nascent «politics of new English regionalism», with some Labour MPs publicly raising concerns about the process, transparency and democratic - accountability of «Devo - Manc».

Today he commented, «At a time when public concern about the place of religion in schools has never been higher, we need full accountability and transparency with respect to decisions as to which schools are funded.

A Government Accountability Office has agreed to review how classified information is kept secure at Trump's Mar - a-Lago resort in Florida, the agency said, after Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the issue last month.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Campaign for Accountability also raises concerns about the Heaney campaign working with two vendors that had consulted with the PAC, according to the complaint.

While some officials, like Mr. Johnson and Ms. James, say they are concerned about the costs the city may have to bear, others stood by the executive order, saying it provided the accountability Nycha urgently needed.

Taken together, these concerns about CFRP led the US Government Accountability Office to question whether FAA aviation inspectors schooled in metal technologies were capable of assessing the new CFRP materials.

IARC's absence and refusal to cooperate reinforces concerns about the Agency's commitment to transparency and accountability, and raises questions about its interest in producing cancer hazard assessments, which can have a meaningful impact on public health.»

EW: What are some of the concerns educators voice to you about meeting accountability and achievement standards?

Thus, while Koretz has reason to be concerned about the perils of test - based accountability, evidence from DCPS suggests that it can work — when «it» is a nuanced system that uses more than tests alone to evaluate schools and teachers (more on this below).

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

(This concern about tests is not leveled at NAEP, which was used in the comparisons above, but instead applies to the tests states use for accountability purposes).

The most telling example may be in New York, where the simultaneous effort to change testing and accountability fueled intense concerns about how the tests would affect teacher job security, engendering fierce backlash and strong teachers union support for the «opt - out» movement.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

Very few people are concerned about quality, accountability, or sustainability.

However, California's policymakers, concerned as they were about the lack of performance information and accountability in the system, decided that the state couldn't wait that long.

The Local Government Association, which represents the boroughs, has expressed concern about school accountability.

Noah Bookman, the chief accountability officer for the districts, said he understood the concerns about testing.

To that end, Smarick encourages private school leaders to think about three key areas of opportunity: building a school network structure, encouraging incubation of high - potential schools, and considering an authorizer model as a way to quell concerns over accountability to the public and policymakers.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

Workshop participants expressed concerns about data timeliness, local indicators, how data relate to districts» accountability plans, and how charter data are reported.

The bad idea is ending annual testing in grades 3 — 8, which may emerge as a consensus response to concerns about the state of standards, assessments, and accountability.

There were plenty of responses to last week's pieces tearing apart Rick Hess» and Michael Petrilli's op - ed accusing fellow school reformers of race - baiting for raising concerns about efforts by congressional Republican powers John Kline and Lamar Alexander to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

Charter schools had become a bone of contention among lawmakers as some questioned the accountability of charters after high - profile problems with the Hartford - based Jumoke Academy that included financial miscues, nepotism and concern about a former chief executive officer who had lied about having a doctorate degree before admitting that he did not.

Your editor has spent way too much time already tearing apart Rick Hess» and Michael Petrilli's this week's piece accusing fellow school reformers of race - baiting for raising concerns about efforts by congressional Republican powers John Kline and Lamar Alexander to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act's accountability provisions.

Regarding concerns about testing, he added, «They should love this plan, frankly, because the schools would have the ability to design their accountability systems, flexibly.

The LAO's Rachel Ehlers told the panel Monday that while her office welcomes much of what the governor has proposed, they are concerned about the ability of the existing accountability system to ensure districts spend their money as intended under the governor's plan.

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

Even before Ed Trust issued its latest report, there have been plenty of concern (especially from the civil rights wing of the school reform movement) about the displacement of AYP with new accountability systems.

However, all had deep concerns about the lack of charter transparency, accountability, and their fiscal impact on public schools.

Asked about union concerns over the separation of free schools from councils» democratic structures, he added: «If unions wanted to set up free schools and build in these accountability processes involving the local council they have got the opportunity to do that.»

Pope - Roberts says her primary concern about developing a new accountability system for schools is whether there is also a commitment to providing adequate resources for education.

Labour MP Meg Hillier, who succeeded Ms Hodge as chair of the committee, told Schools Week an update on the progress of the investigation would be helpful, adding that her committee was «really concerned» about the «accountability gap» in some academy chains.

The entire waiver process was sloppily administered in the first place, with Duncan granting waivers to states (and allowing them to ignore whole sections of No Child) even thought they have not yet implemented or enacted all the proposals within their applications, and the administration ignoring concerns raised by its own peer review panels about such matters as how states have ignored the need to gain consultation on proposed changes from American Indian tribes as required under the U.S. Constitution (as well as from black and Latino communities equally affected by the evisceration of accountability).

Lucy Powell, a former shadow education secretary who is also the school's local MP, described the case as «shocking» and said it raised «real concerns about weak oversight and accountability of our schools system».

E4E joined a coalition expressing deep concerns about waiver implementation, from how graduation rates are factored into accountability systems to how...