Sentences with phrase «from accountability systems»

I wrote Higher Education Accountability with the goal of summarizing what is known about accountability in American higher education, while also drawing in lessons learned from accountability systems in other nonprofit and public - sector organizations such as K - 12 education, health care, and public management.

A survey of superintendents of the nation's largest school districts shows what they view as the top challenges to their leadership, including local political concerns and pressure from accountability systems.

Commenting on the report, Nick Brook, deputy general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said: «The arts are under ‑ valued and under threat, both from the accountability system and funding cuts.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

SB 1882 provides two incentives to districts and charter schools to collaborate: students in the partnership school are funded at whichever per - pupil rate is higher (the charter school's or the district's) and turnaround schools receive a two - year pause in sanctions from the accountability system.

[x] New York, however, seeks to further exclude English learners from the accountability system.

Not exact matches

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Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

Those who run this system are and will remain insulated from accountability.

Within the EU system, the UK benefits from acceptable environmental standards thanks to the pressures for accountability.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

Teachers from across the UK will be gathering to debate a range of motions on topics including pupil indiscipline, the mental health of teachers, workload, pay and conditions, marking and the school accountability system.

«The bill would flip the current incentives of a broken system to provide real accountability and transparency from higher education institutions,» the senator's office said.

«From pre-K for all to graduation rates above 70 percent,» Mr. Finan continued, «the successes of a school system with direct, mayoral accountability can not be denied.»

The argument for mayoral control, from Democrats and Republicans who support it, is that the system provides greater accountability.

From an accountability standpoint, the JAMA system would seem to have few disadvantages; Biagioli says the move from «author» to «contributor» has been by far the most innovative step toward transparency in publishing research resuFrom an accountability standpoint, the JAMA system would seem to have few disadvantages; Biagioli says the move from «author» to «contributor» has been by far the most innovative step toward transparency in publishing research resufrom «author» to «contributor» has been by far the most innovative step toward transparency in publishing research results.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

The university's system of «safety management accountability and oversight» was inadequate, and no one took note of or learned from earlier incidents that provided «preventative lessons» about impending danger.

Computer scientists from the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have now developed a matching application for the current version of the Android smartphone operating system, allowing for a more precise monitoring of malicious apps.

In cooperation with his colleagues Fabienne Eigner and Matteo Maffei from the Center for IT - Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) and Francesca Pampaloni from the Italian IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Kate developed a software system called «Privada.»

Premise: After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, another international incident involving Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Avengers results in collateral damage, prompting politicians to form a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to call in the Avengers, which results in the fracturing of the team into two opposing factions — one led by Captain America who wishes to operate without regulation, and one led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) who supports government oversight — while they attempt to protect the world from a new enemy.

The evidence from Florida also suggests that the gains produced by such an accountability system are real indicators of improvement in learning, and not simply teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

However, the positive impact of accountability systems, particularly for the poor and minority students who traditionally have been excluded from educational opportunities, outweighs the risks.

«The Efficacy of Choice Threats Within Accountability Systems: Results from Legislatively Induced Experiments,» The Economic Journal, vol.

What became clear from the mark - up is that there's very little support in Congress for federal oversight of state accountability systems.

With the increased authority provided to states under ESSA, states can now take advantage of this flexibility to build even better systems and not as a means to hide from accountability.

Even the weak statement from the New York Court of Appeals that new accountability should accompany added funding was met with indifference by the judicial referees, who accepted the thrust of Mayor Bloomberg's testimony when he appeared before them: he is already accountable through the electoral system, so just send the money.

First, it advances specific ideas for how state accountability systems can be redesigned to demand strong performance and growth from high - achieving students while meeting the requirements set forth in ESSA.

With key components from the old system as the foundation, ESSA (which Business Roundtable CEOs supported) is designed to move the federal government out of the decision - making process and give states the flexibility to design their own accountability systems and ensure all students receive an education that prepares them for college and career.

At the summit, 41 governors and 48 business leaders from across the country agreed to speed improvement and accountability in the nation's education system.

(The Education Department's approval of North Carolina's application is provisional, pending a review of its accountability system that is separate from the growth - model review process.)

Reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act remains stalled in Congress, but the Obama administration continues to push ahead with big changes to the accountability system at its core, with more than half the states now having been approved for waivers from major mandates of the law.

Some of his more controversial points included the need to embed responsibility and accountability systems deep into every classroom and office, and the importance of identifying and then removing superfluous burdens from school staff to enable them to improve teaching and learning outcomes with pace and certainty.

Equity - oriented groups that want as many students from disadvantaged groups as possible included in the accountability system, including the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Education Trust, have advocated for states to adopt a minimum n - size of 10, whereas since revoked Obama - era accountability regulations allowed states to choose any n - size up to 30.

Waiver Extensions: The process to allow states to keep their waivers — and keep from having to go back to the NCLB accountability system — for one additional year.

At the same time, she shepherded the state education department through a host of major policy shifts, from lowering class sizes to implementing a new accountability system and a controversial bilingual education law.

The researchers compared disadvantaged Texas students from successive cohorts within the same school between 1995 and 2000 in order to identify effects when a school encountered a risk point in mathematics under the accountability system.

But charter accountability, which emanated from a diverse provider environment, has shown for a quarter - century that we can have an accountability system that leans on both parental judgments (via choice) and public evaluations (via authorizers).

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

In Ontario, Canada, one of the great PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) success stories, the current provincial administration took over from one that had instituted a province - wide curriculum and matching assessments, along with a tough accountability system.

Thus, while Koretz has reason to be concerned about the perils of test - based accountability, evidence from DCPS suggests that it can work — when «it» is a nuanced system that uses more than tests alone to evaluate schools and teachers (more on this below).

Alternatively, it could be argued that NCLB should not be viewed as in effect until the 2003 — 04 academic year, when new state accountability systems were more fully implemented as well as more informed by guidance from and through negotiations with the U.S. Department of Education.

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.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

For some context, when No Child Left Behind required every state to adopt standards, create assessments aligned to those assessments, and build an accountability and reporting system, it gave states 44 months to do all of those things (from January 2002 to September 2005).

Modernizing state accountability systems is not only good policy for district or multi-district online schools, but all of public education would greatly benefit from the next generation of school accountability frameworks.