Charter schools are required to meet the same (or often higher) state and
federal academic performance standards as district public schools.
Not exact matches
State and
federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific
standards of
academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students.
Beginning in the late 1980s, Shanker pushed hard for state and
federal legislation to raise
academic standards, and he kept the pressure on for educational testing and consequences for poor
performance.
The bill also eliminates goals and
performance targets for
academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of
federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the
federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready
standards.
The district's opinion stems from a
Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for
academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide
standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.
This means our schools must meet the same
academic performance standards as traditional district schools, as required by
federal and state laws.
Superintendents acknowledge that
federal and state
standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated
standards for
academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).
by Jack Jennings Apr 4, 2015
academic standards, accountability, Common State
Standards, education research,
federal education policy,
federal funding, graduation rate, NAEP, No Child Left Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school reform, teacher evaluations, teacher
performance, teachers, testing 0 Comments
The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a
federal waiver from the
federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for
academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide
standards.
Former Superintendent John Deasy had argued that the district was exempt from the Parent Trigger by a
federal waiver from the
federal No Child Left Behind law, allowing LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for
academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide
standards.
Individual Head Start programs develop their own curricula of
academic and social activities with
federal performance standards in mind.
by Jack Jennings Apr 4, 2015
academic standards, accountability, Common State
Standards, education research,
federal education policy,
federal funding, graduation rate, NAEP, No Child Left Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school reform, teacher evaluations, teacher
performance, teachers, testing