Sentences with phrase «get around accountability»

«We are not trying to get around accountability,» Mr. Walker, a Republican, said in a phone interview.

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For all the criticism that law has received — and there is no doubt that the law needs to be improved when Congress gets around to its re-authorization — the law, and especially its accountability provisions, have been, in general, of great benefit to the country's schoolchildren.

While liberals got some «guardrails» around state accountability systems, they failed to get a federal mandate on equalizing school funding — though Obama education secretary John King is now doing his utmost to devise one via executive branch regulations.

In September, California Gov. Jerry Brown resisted Duncan's threat to withhold $ 7.3 billion in federal funding if he signed into law Assembly Bill 484, which effectively eviscerates accountability (and gets around the administration's decision to not grant the Golden State a waiver from No Child on its own terms) by eliminating all but a smattering of the state's standardized tests.

You've got to remember, No Child Left Behind was the result of a lot of work in the states around accountability.

What was ultimately titled a «Value - Added Smackdown» in a blog post featured in Education Week, let's just say, got a little out of hand, with the «smackdown» ending up focusing almost solely around our claim that Harris believed, and we disagreed, with the notion that «value - added [was and still is] good enough to be used for [purposes of] educational accountability.»

Solos suffer even more from a lack of accountability because there is no else one to keep them accountable, and it becomes too easy to justify or create reasons for not getting around to the tasks that need to be done in order to reach the goal.

Other concerns surrounding teams include a lack of broker supervision, team leader accountability and ambiguity around how teams get paid.