Sentences with phrase «federal accountability provisions»

In fact, based on what we know, federal accountability provisions will complement the most successful state practices.

Not exact matches

In addition, the federal government was quite lax in enforcing the accountability provisions that were in the law.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford on Aug. 22, argues that federal funding to Connecticut falls far short of what is needed to meet the law's testing and accountability requirements, a violation of the U.S. Constitution and provisions in the nearly 4 - year - old statute itself.

His implied question was, «Why do you now want to send tens of billions of federal funds to states without meaningful accountability provisions?»

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

While the draft rules generally adhere closely to the language in the law, federal officials tried to reassure states and districts, both in that document and in a July 24 letter, that they still have «significant flexibility» in meeting the measure's accountability provisions.

The accountability provisions of the law bedevil the unions to this day, but the large increase in federal education spending ended up helping the unions» bottom line, as still more teachers and support workers were hired.

The federal agency could allow the state to simply implement the law and use comparable test results for accountability purposes, or the state agency could work with federal officials to use ESSA's pilot testing provision.

He serves as a principal investigator for the federal study of the implementation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including its provisions related to accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools.

With just two months to go until states must submit detailed plans to the federal government for how they will comply with the accountability provisions in the law, the U.S. Department of Education has yet to release final regulations.

On the federal No Child Left Behind Act: «The law's provisions are considerably at odds with the technical realities of test - based accountability.

Although the new law maintains the requirement that Title I plans be approved by the U.S. Secretary of Education, it may take time to discern specifically how provisions of the 1000 - plus page bill will limit federal authority in regard to regulation, implementation and monitoring of state - developed accountability systems.

As I've laid out before, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has several ambiguities that seem to keep the door open for continued federal control over state standards, tests, and accountability mechanisms, even as the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal intervention.

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.

So for example if we roll back the new school accountability system, we have to change the waiver that we received from the federal government from the No Child Left Behind provisions, which is not going to be a minor, easy feat.

States were slow to comply with IASA's testing and accountability provisions, and erratic federal enforcement of the law led to unfaithful and uneven implementation.

The WASB has strong concerns about a provision in the amended bill that prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.

Dropout Nation has long argued that the Obama administration's waiver gambit, as much driven by a desire to put its mark on federal education policy (and stamp out that of predecessor George W. Bush, upon which the administration's own reforms have been built) as by the lack of movement within Congress on reauthorizing the law, weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher.

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