Sentences with phrase «greater public school accountability»

They worked in three of Denver's public high schools, fighting for greater public school accountability and student voice.

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Many senior school business management professionals find themselves on call long after 5.00 pm, are now working across groups of schools, are responsible for a wider range of school functions and larger, more dispersed teams, and alongside greater autonomy and responsibility, face greater scrutiny and public accountability.

The private schools retain a great deal of operational autonomy, but the price of public support is some form of public accountability.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Accountability's edge is undoubtedly due not only to widespread public support for the idea (see «What Americans Think about Their Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher Schools,» Fall 2007), but to the fact that, as practiced, it has posed only a minimal threat to the great vested interests of American education: local school boards, state departments of education, schools of education, and teacher schools of education, and teacher unions.

By giving these schools true control over their programs, staff, and curricula, and by opening them to all families, authors of the charter school law resurrected the true American vision of public schooling: equal access to great instruction and accountability for results.

I think you're seeing not only greater innovations on the public school side through partnerships but also greater accountability from their partners, and therefore a greater concern for marrying excellence and equity.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Because public money will directly support the charter schools, and because the results of these schools are of great public importance, it creates a system of public accountability.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

Greater accountability will provide charters that do not engage in such activities a competitive advantage, allowing them to thrive and ultimately improve the academic performance of Arizona's charter and public district schools.

Arizona laws provide public charter schools more autonomy in exchange for greater accountability for improved student achievement.

Because public charter schools are subject to greater accountability than traditional public schools.

The charter movement has transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

The strong accountability at the heart of the public charter school movement has helped to make charters successful at achieving great outcomes for students.

We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system undeSchools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system undeschools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system under ESSA.

Legislators make great sport out of questioning the integrity of public schools, students, teachers and districts to justify setting up the most punitive «Accountability» system in the nation.

This trend has already done great damage to the future of thousands of Texas kids and threatens many more if we can not come to a new consensus on the accountability for and measurement of student achievement in Texas, which after all should be the organizing principle of the public schools.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

The charter movement transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

«We need to fairly fund kids across all types of public schools and ensure that all students have access to great teachers, leaders, and schools, and that there is transparency and meaningful accountability for results.»

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

The recent election showed there is strong public support for improving district accountability, creating better educational outcomes, supporting students beyond the classroom, and making sure every child in every neighborhood has access to a great school.

«We have worked to raise academic standards, promote accountability, and provide greater competition and choice within the public schools, including support for a dramatic increase in charter schools.»

«While it would be incorrect to assume that a high - profile instance such as this is reflective of the broader charter school movement, this case does bring to light legitimate concerns about authorizer accountability and the urgent need for greater public transparency in financial agreements between charter schools and authorizers,» the charter association told the San Diego Union - Tribune when Van Zant pleaded guilty in February.

Again, these reforms were popular on both the political left and right: the left saw in standards a way to create greater uniformity across the school system; the right saw in accountability a way to impose greater pressure on an unresponsive public bureaucracy.

«This could be a lot of public money, and we demand great accountability of public schools, and SB - 3 has none,» Seliger said.

The bipartisan initiative, which President George W. Bush signed into law in 2002, provided greater accountability for the education of 50 million U.S. public school students.

A charter school is an independently run public school granted greater flexibility in its operations, in return for greater accountability for performance.

These schools receive public funding and must apply local standards but generally have greater freedom from certain laws and regulations, and face less accountability than do public schools.

Ravitch laments charter schools» lack of accountability, but charter schools are held to greater accountability standards than other public schools.

What are the consistent supports needed to focus QRIS and public school accountability approaches on great teaching?

«It would be great if all the politically energized public school supporters turn their attention to things that are less visible but higher impact — like how the federal government will permit states to implement accountability under the new ESSA law.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

After a recent poll found that voters want greater oversight for charter schools, In The Public Interest and the Center for Popular Democracy released The Charter School Accountability Agenda: An 11 - Point Program for Reform, which outlines steps for states to ensure public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instances of Public Interest and the Center for Popular Democracy released The Charter School Accountability Agenda: An 11 - Point Program for Reform, which outlines steps for states to ensure public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instaAccountability Agenda: An 11 - Point Program for Reform, which outlines steps for states to ensure public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instances of public accountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instaaccountability and provide oversight to improve student learning and reduce instances of fraud.

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