Sentences with phrase «federal accountability performance»

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GAO supports the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and helps improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.

He criticizes the federal law for basing school accountability on a single year's test scores and holding schools accountable for the performance of transient students.

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

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.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

Sandy Kress played a major role in fashioning the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind, a landmark piece of legislation that has lifted the test performance of minority and disadvantaged students in the years since its passage.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

In my opinion, NCLB's greatest value is creating accountability for the allocation and use of federal funds with at least some connection to school performance and student outcomes.

A bipartisan Congress passed the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which required every school to release information on student performance in grades three through eight and again in high school.

In fact, the modern accountability movement, right through to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, owes much to Shanker's relentless calls for higher standards, assessments, and consequences for poor performance.

President Bush wrote that this was why in 2001 he pushed for NCLB's accountability - through - testing as a performance audit of the spending of federal taxpayers» dollars.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Over 70 percent of the American public favors renewal of federal accountability legislation, and performance on similar tests is known to be important economically.

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

Thanks to advances in technology and accountability requirements in the federal No Child Left Behind Act, many schools have more student - performance data at their disposal than ever before.

That's in part because schools» accountability for the progress that English - learners make in learning the language is now integrated into Title I, the federal program under which the performance of all other students is scrutinized.

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

The last time the federal government left accountability completely to the states, two - thirds decided to do nothing; only two states included the performance of individual groups of students in their systems.

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for California to have a single, comprehensive accountability system based on performance, equity, and improvement that would meet both state and federal requirements.

Additionally, the federal law should have had safeguards in place so that states that were at the beginning stages of implementing accountability systems would not have an incentive to set a low bar on performance to create an illusion of progress.

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

North Carolina is developing a new school performance accountability plan to line up with the regulations created under the ESSA law, and DPI plans to submit its draft to the federal Department of Education in September for approval.

WakeEd has previously advocated for creating a single accountability tool that meets the federal standards and fairly reports the performance of public schools across the state.

This 2009 report, written by Dana Brinson and Lauren Morando Rhim for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, provides five brief profiles of schools that dramatically improved student performance and successfully restructured under federal accountability systems.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

The rating system also aims to increase program accountability by generating reliable data for policymakers about program performance measures — programs that underperform could lose access to federal financial aid.

In a letter sent to superintendents and heads of charter schools on Friday, they implied that California will take the path of least resistance to federal sanctions, focusing instead on the state's effort to revise its own accountability system, using the Academic Performance Index.

Before federal education officials exempted Indiana from the national accountability law, schools tracked the performance of students in every socioeconomic and ethnic «subgroup» in their building.

He directly supervised the Divisions of Talent, Performance, Information Technology and led education priorities including the development of a new comprehensive school accountability system under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.)

It focuses mostly on standards for accountability and transparency, and vastly increases the amount of information states will be required to share in annual «school report cards,» which will give parents better data on school performance and help guide where federal education money is most needed.

The letter provides initial guidance to States on the transition to the new federal education law, including several immediate impacts on state accountability systems and the associated reporting of annual district, school, and student performance data.

What: A frank discussion of the unintended consequences of the current No Child Left Behind Act and presentation of the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) recommendations to shift the focus of the federal law from penalties and compliance to a more meaningful framework for supporting improved learning and stronger school and district performance.

Not only will we need to further develop our new accountability system — determining how to measure certain performance indicators, for example — but we will also have to make sure it works coherently and in concert with the accountability expectations outlined in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the new federal law our president signed to replace No Child Left Behind.

The bill, which is expected to be formally introduced next week and likely taken up in earnest before the Christmas holiday, returns to states authority to design and implement a wide variety of accountability and performance controls but maintains long - standing federal requirements on student testing.

Accountability in California is still evolving — there are many questions about the LCAP, the LCAP rubrics, the state replacement for the Academic Performance Index (API), and the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Getting it Right: Crafting Federal Accountability for Higher Student Performance and a Stronger America

When Congress passed the federal education overhaul, it specifically required states to include the performance of English learners in their accountability plans.

The Student Success Act's most dramatic components center on the bill's accountability provisions, which allow states to determine how they will judge and improve school performance with minimal interference or direction from the federal government.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

In an effort to tighten up performance benchmarks that schools, districts and states may have to reach in exchange for federal funds, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has proposed a new rule that would increase accountability while also giving grant recipients some new flexibility in meeting the mandates.

NCLB architect and ranking Democratic committee member George Miller (CA) agreed with «the need to balance the accountability we worked so hard to implement in NCLB with greater flexibility at the local level and less prescription at the federal level,» but cautioned that some sort of federal oversight was needed lest schools return to a time when group averages obscured individual student performance in schools.

Under ESSA, the states rather than the federal government determine the expected student performance in their accountability systems.

New Labels to Indicate School Performance: A to F. All waiver states had to identify low - performing schools as «priority» or «focus» schools for federal accountability purposes, but these federal distinctions didn't have to translate to state school ratings systems.

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

An approach to accountability that holds states responsible for the conditions to learn while holding communities responsible for equity and achievement: The current federal policy framework holds schools to unreasonable targets, using narrow assessment tools, with punishments that do little to improve school performance.

She is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project, where she leads much of the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system — including the validity and comparability of the annual determinations for federal accountability.

Nearly two years later, not a single state's plan to comply with the federal education law — and its broader vision for judging school performance — calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system.»