Sentences with phrase «federal school accountability»

The new proposed federal school accountability system is looking to do the same.

Nevertheless, the difficulties in gathering large - scale generalizable data partially explain why a recently released research brief, (whose authors include members of the CASEL work group), urged states not to immediately include SEL in their federal school accountability plans.

Both history and science wasn't a priority in the state and federal school accountability systems.

But otherwise it's almost a complete U-turn, policy-wise, from the existing federal school accountability law.

Under the new federal school accountability law, ESSA, states and schools now have the ability to both widen the definition of school accountability and push towards improved school quality and student achievement.

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.

Not exact matches

Most criticism of the federal lunch program in recent years has centered on health and nutrition, but documented abuses in school districts in North Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey and elsewhere have prompted questions about accountability.

The recommendation to develop the MOU came from a 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies» Procedures Could Reduce the Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food.

In February, approximately half of the schools were taken off the struggling and persistently struggling lists after federal accountability statuses from the 2014 - 15 school year showed those schools had made progress and would not otherwise have been put on the receivership list (a few schools also closed).

The plan requires school - by - school reporting for federal accountability purposes.

Alhough students» scores on the Common Core - aligned state tests won't be used for teacher and principal evaluations, the growth scores will still be calculated and used for school accountability to comply with federal law, a state Education Department official said.

The computer scientist is a doctoral candidate at the Saarland University Graduate School for Computer Science, and also a researcher at the Center for IT - Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA), one of three security research centers in Germany that are specifically funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF.

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

Likewise, in a September 3, 2003, column examining the differences between state and federal accountability systems, Winerip looked at North Carolina, where, he said, some schools that were doing just fine under the state's previous accountability system were now being flagged as needing improvement under NCLB.

Because some states are experimenting with value - added approaches to measuring school progress, it's important that federal accountability standards allow for this type of innovation.

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 2010 — 11, 28 percent of K12 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind accountability law, compared to 52 percent of schools nationwide.

The Texas school accountability system implemented under then Governor George W. Bush served as a blueprint for the federal legislation he signed as president nearly a decade later.

States use subgroups for two purposes, with potentially two different minimum subgroup sizes, or n - sizes: reporting (school report cards available to the public online) and federal accountability (used in state calculations to determine which schools fall into particular categories under ESSA).

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Trent Blankenship backs the change, saying that the federal No Child Left Behind Act has created enough school accountability.

The Republican candidates all stress accountability and favor school choice, though they prefer leaving the federal government out of education policy decisions.

The Department of Education should take steps to monitor whether federal money is getting disbursed to charter schools quickly and ensure that the funds are being used effectively, the Government Accountability Office recommends.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

The 2003 - 04 school year saw the first widespread implementation of the new federal education law's chief accountability measures.

Even the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

It also appeals to the yearning of some GOP lawmakers and libertarian policy wonks to get Uncle Sam completely out of the school - accountability business (though they'll gag on Rothstein's demand for buckets more in federal dollars for those unaccountable schools and sundry other services to kids).

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Knowing this, Duncan designed Race to the Top, an ingenious program that gave states the chance to dip into a $ 4.35 billion pot of federal money if they adopted certain accountability and school choice policies.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.

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.

(It escapes me why he then urges that states be placed in sole charge of school standards and accountability with no federal involvement at all.)

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.

The question confronting those interested in accountability is this: How can federal, state, and local agencies ensure that schools actually do the job that IDEA authorizes and commands them to do?

It took another authorization and a clear signal from the Bush administration that the federal government was serious about accountability in order for the states to come up with plans to hold their own schools and districts accountable.

The law has split the Right between those who cheer accountability and those who jeer federal overreach and insufficient attention to school choice.

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.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

Recent revisions to the most prominent federal law dealing with school quality — the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — mark a sharp rollback of the federal role in teacher evaluation and accountability.

With the federal government's role in school accountability sharply diminished, it now falls to state and local governments to take decisive action.

However, the lead - up to the announcement of the waivers was unsettling to supporters of a strong federal role in school accountability.

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.

This issue can also be addressed by broadening the set of indicators against which schools are evaluated, which many states are poised to do under the new federal accountability law.

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.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

This is evident in the federal law's requirement that each state's accountability system generate a report card for each school and district indicating the proportion of students meeting proficiency standards on state tests of math and reading.

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Testing and Accountability Question: Some have proposed that the federal government continue to require that all students be tested in math and reading each year in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.