Sentences with phrase «demands little accountability»

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The era of accountability, speeded along by the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, is now demanding dramatically better academic performance with little or no increase in the funds available to do the job.

We bury them in committees, schedules, supervision, volunteer programs, data analysis, before - school and after - school meetings, materials, activities and evening events, training, special programs — and sprinkle a little goal - setting, demands, testing, accountability, evaluations, and relentlessly high expectations for change and improvement on top for good measure.

This position would be the inverse of our current approach of providing little up front and demanding heavy accountability on the back end.

Arguing that the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions (as well as the less - than - worthy accountability systems launched as part of the Obama Administration's waiver gambit) do little more than «test and punish» the NEA - AFT coalition is demanding new accountability systems that «support and improve ``, whatever that means.