Sentences with phrase «from holding schools accountable»

No, it won't walk away from holding schools accountable for subgroups of students that weren't supposed to be left behind: racial and ethnic minorities, economically disadvantaged students, special - needs students and English learners.

In a delectable taste of hypocrisy, several of these same quasi-activists even try to lure Black families away from holding schools accountable for students» performance.

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Someone who was not held accountable for their actions when they were expelled from school.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

New York, NY — Public school parents from across New York City gathered outside today's mayoral control hearing to send a clear message: parents are dissatisfied with the quality of NYC public schools and they expect Mayor de Blasio to be held accountable.

We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where teachers and schools are held accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.

Rather than hold schools to account for student performance at one point in time, we can now hold them accountable for all students» progress from one year to the next.

A report from the Southern Regional Education Board recommends steps for policymakers to take in the interest of ensuring that charter schools in their states are being held accountable for improving student achievement.

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.

Although the authors are to be applauded for wanting to hold charter schools accountable to high performance standards, that does not save Dust - Up from being best assigned to the dustbin.

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

Meanwhile, some states proposed, and in some cases were approved for, wholesale departures from efforts to hold schools accountable.

Wong and his colleagues make a solid, if still preliminary, case for shifting power away from school boards to a single, elected leader who can be held accountable to a citywide constituency.

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

The charter school literature tells us that it takes schools a couple of years to get up to speed, holding them accountable from the outset might push out schools that can eventually improve.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

Maybe schools could be held accountable through a wide array of measures that could vary from school to school.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

This is very different from the MCT - based accountability systems of the 1970s, under which students were held accountable, for example, for passing a high school exit exam if they were to receive a regular high school diploma.

Up until now, NCLB has held schools accountable but has expected nothing directly from students.

But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

To take on this task, Governor Cuomo has brought together top education and business leaders from across the country to help build an effective education system that puts students first and holds schools accountable for the results they achieve and the dollars they spend.

Separate and apart from NCLB, which focuses on the performance of schools and districts, the public strongly supports reforms designed to hold individual students accountable for their performance on state tests.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

Yet Ravitch sees no hope for choice and competition in education, asking us to leave public schools alone apart from articulating voluntary national standards without holding anyone accountable for meeting them.

The contract is an essential document, separate from the charter application, that establishes the legally binding agreement and terms under which the school will operate and be held accountable.

She edited Holding Schools Accountable: Performance Based Reform in Education (Brookings 1996) and was co-chair of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance from 1996 - 99.

The newsletter now has an expanded focus: the range of new California academic standards — from the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, to the Next Generation Science Standards and the history - social science standards — as well as how schools will be held accountable for measuring their progress on them.

This can only come from empowering local school communities to design their schools, giving them charter - like budget and staffing flexibility in hiring and staff reductions and then holding them accountable for performance, parent satisfaction and enrollment.

While many in state capitols and Washington, D.C. are placing bets against state and national accountability systems that range from No Child Left Behind to Common Core State Standards, the public remains faithful to its long - standing commitment to hold schools, students and teachers accountable.

The DfE also claims that a baseline test can be a good predictor of children's future attainment — and that schools can therefore be held accountable for deviations from the prediction that baseline makes.

«One of the new pieces added from our conversation of last time was the needed attention to underperforming schools and holding our schools accountable to raise achievement of persistently lower - performing schools,» King said.

If the recent reaction from some schools of education to proposed federal regulations aimed at improving the quality and impact of teacher preparation programs is any indication, we can expect the traditional cacophony of complaints, such as «We can not hold preparation programs accountable for factors outside our control.»

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Counselors are ready to lead in the college and career ready mission, but their graduate schools fail to train them for this mission, schools pull them away from this critical work, and their administrators do not hold them accountable for the activities that usher more students to college.

58 As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.59 As such, it is possible that this state of affairs further encourages individuals to seek relief from OCR, elevating the need for OCR to provide «effective protection» and decrease the time it takes to investigate claims.

«The state needs to move from finding ways to keep these schools open and focus on holding them accountable.

However, should any other situation arise where it is clear that an outlier school is deviating from the responsible practices found throughout the rest of the sector, we will not hesitate to take action helping to ensure that all parties are held appropriately accountable.

Over the next few years, the state will be moving from WKCE to new computer - adaptive tests that will have similar features to MAP and also be used to hold schools accountable.

If California takes advantage of the offered flexibility, teachers and schools will get relief from having to administer (and be held accountable for) the results of two different sets of tests next year: the current CST exams and the new Common Core assessments.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

To produce results, it is important to learn from the past as we engage citizens, develop public policy and promote truly accountable schooling (see «From «Dropping Out» to «Holding On» — Seven Lessons from Texas,» by Robledo Montecfrom the past as we engage citizens, develop public policy and promote truly accountable schooling (see «From «Dropping Out» to «Holding On» — Seven Lessons from Texas,» by Robledo MontecFrom «Dropping Out» to «Holding On» — Seven Lessons from Texas,» by Robledo Montecfrom Texas,» by Robledo Montecel).

It is even more so to realize that, after telling the students that they do not have to learn, work, or even show up to school in order to continue passing each grade, the Board will then hold them accountable for passing an impossible test for which the Board of Ed has actively prevented teachers from preparing the students.

Twenty - three major organizations from across the country also signed a letter sent to Secretary DeVos, in which they stressed: «This federal guidance remains essential for holding our school systems accountable at the local level and for keeping this issue at the center of the national dialogue so that communities can work together to create solutions that bring an end to racial and discipline disparities and provide support so that all students can succeed in our nation.»

The state's ESSA plan also includes a way to hold schools accountable based on how students perform after they graduate from high school, by looking at whether they're employed or pursuing a degree.

But one thing missing from their agenda is anything that seeks to hold charter schools and for - profit charter operators accountable for how they spend money and educate children and their level of transparency to the public.

When districts and schools are held accountable for their students» test scores, as was the case under past standards - based reforms, the number of students who are «held back,» or retained from moving on to the next grade, have increased (Lee 2006).