Sentences with phrase «establish measures of accountability»

While there are many roles and occupations that work on behalf of children birth to age 8 in the early childhood education field, Power to the Profession will first define the unique responsibilities of early childhood educators and then establish measures of accountability for those responsibilities.

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The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

The former generally seeks to privatize government functions and establishes strict accountability measures, while the latter focuses on citizens as customers of government and seeks to humanize public policy (Denhardt & Denhardt, 2007).

He emphasizes that the district's crucial decision to ensure that the accountability measures reflect student outcomes — as opposed to adult measures such as teacher evaluation results — facilitated the community's approval of the system and helped to establish the district as a trusted voice in this work.

States are required to establish new accountability systems that include annual test scores, graduation rates for high schools, an additional academic indicator for pre-secondary schools and a measure of how well English learners are achieving proficiency.

Three years ago, the state Legislature included chronic absenteeism as a measure of student engagement in the new school and district accountability system it established through the new Local Control Funding Formula.

Suggestions range from offering students an array of extracurricular activities and extended - day learning opportunities to establishing more meaningful accountability systems that encompass a variety of subjects and use multiple measures of student performance.

However, Steinberg's bill was an extremely technical piece of legislation, which proposed a complex new accountability system that adds graduation rates and other measures to the API to establish a new index to be called the Education Quality Index.

Your final driving test, or summative assessment, would be the accountability measure that establishes whether or not you have the driving skills necessary for a driver's license — not a reflection of all the driving practice that leads to it.

Measuring effectiveness of school site council's is a good way to establish accountability at the school level.

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On June 26, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a measure that strengthens the state's home visiting programs and establishes a system of accountability that will help ensure strong outcomes such as improved health for mothers and infants, and children being better prepared to learn when they start school.