Sentences with phrase «control over school accountability»

ESSA continues many of the assessment provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, but allows states to exercise considerably more choice and control over their school accountability systems.

The proposed revision would give states more control over school accountability.

WASHINGTON — The Senate sent to President Obama an education bill that would return to the states significant control over school accountability and testing.

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Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

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.

National standards would strengthen federal control over education while weakening schools» direct accountability to parents and taxpayers.

The 2005 legislative session was relatively quiet on the subject of K - 12 education, despite tension over changes to the state's school accountability system between Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, and the Colorado legislature, which was controlled for the first time in 40 years by Democrats

Though Tuesday's result is being framed as a referendum on Bennett's school choice and accountability policies, Pastore's account squares with poll numbers suggesting conservative voters responded to arguments that school boards should have control over their own policies.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

When provided with the following definition, «Charter schools are public schools that have more control over their own budget, staff, and curriculum, and are exempt from many existing public school regulations in exchange for more accountability,» support rose to over 70 percent.

With this new law, Texas has even more control over the quality of our schools, and it is imperative that we don't use that power to further backslide on accountability.

The district's state - appointed superintendent, Paymon Rouhanifard, last week announced that next year he will turn over control of five of the district's lowest - performing schools to operators of the district's fledgling «renaissance schools,» a form of charter schools with both greater resources and greater accountability.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

While educators and policymakers agree that multiple measures over multiple years are the best way to gauge student, school, and district performance, the first - year SBAC results provide an important baseline for assessing implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs).

Georgia PTA dedicated its efforts over the past year to advocating against the Opportunity School District ballot initiative, which would have put a state political appointee in charge of public schools with few accountability measures and removed control from locally elected school boards and famSchool District ballot initiative, which would have put a state political appointee in charge of public schools with few accountability measures and removed control from locally elected school boards and famschool boards and families.

Although overshadowed by more spectacular conflicts over desegregation, community control, and open schooling, the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s generated more than 70 state laws seeking to create educational accountability and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books about how to create more efficient and accountable educational systems.

The crystal clear lesson for those who are willing to see it is that we need to decentralize control of education, especially by giving parents control over education funding, giving schools autonomy, and letting proven, market - based standards and accountability go to work.

Restorative Discipline is a relational approach to building school climate and addressing student behavior that fosters belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control and meaningful accountability over punishment.

Restorative Discipline is a whole school relational approach to building school climate and addressing student behavior that fosters belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control, and meaningful accountability over punishment.

The law requires states to engage stakeholders, such as school boards, in the development of state accountability plans and strengthens local accountability by giving school districts more control over implementing interventions for low - performing schools.

As a result, states should include indicators of resource equity in their broader systems of accountability and exclude from school classification systems measures over which schools do not have control.

According to Bridge Magazine, some teacher accountability advocates are upset at a proposal to give school districts more control over how teachers are evaluated.