Sentences with phrase «hold these schools accountable while»

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While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

«I will insist that we continue to raise standards for all of our children and hold every school district accountable for their results, while providing the support necessary to get that done.»

While Duncan is technically right that more schools are held accountable for more subgroups of students, he is also letting more schools avoid NCLB's consequences.

«Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas proposed models that will support educational innovation while continuing to hold schools accountable for the goal of every student performing at or above grade level by 2014.

This would include, among other things, changing states» charter laws to allow the participation of private schools, developing a student - based funding formula for education, and establishing clear rules for ensuring that new Catholic (and other private) charter schools are able to maintain sufficient autonomy while being held accountable for results.

By giving teachers the freedom to innovate and try new ways to improve student achievement, public charter schools can be more responsive and create an environment tailored to the needs of individual students, while still being held more accountable for student learning.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

The National Alliance's charter school model law is a template for states to write laws that encourage the creation and growth of high - quality charter schools while holding underperforming schools and authorizers accountable.

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The 1990s energy around holding schools accountable for results — while simultaneously cutting the strings that held them back — has morphed into an enthusiasm for prescription and regulation of the sort that reformers once decried.

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.

While standardized tests provide an effective means of holding schools more accountable for achievement levels, the report says, they «usually do not provide information useful for improving individual or school performance.»

To meet this need and foster scholar achievement, charter schools are given the flexibility to be more innovative while being held accountable for improved academic results.

While many of us were transfixed on the machinations of Congress to undo the Affordable Care Act, the Senate yesterday voted 50 - 49 to «scrap the Obama administration's rule for holding schools accountable for student performance» proving once again how much simpler it is to smash stuff than to build stuff.

After all, isn't this part of the secret sauce that makes charter schools successful, the freedom to be innovative while being held accountable for the results they produce?

Public charter schools are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

Signed into law in 1994, Arizona's charter schools are public schools that are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

Charter schools are public schools that are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) creates a long - term stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.

Plans include year - by - year steps to prepare for college that students are held accountable for fulfilling while in high school.

The Department of Contracted Schools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school diSchools will create a collaborative culture where high quality charter and partnership schools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school dischools are given autonomy to effectively implement their educational programs while being held accountable for results which ultimately have a positive impact on the entire school district.

This approach holds children and schools «accountable» while letting those with the most power, those who control schools, off the hook entirely.

While we can tinker with policies and review enrollment forms, until we ensure that charter schools are prepared to offer quality programs and held accountable for failing to provide quality programs, we will most likely continue to see increasing numbers of OCR investigations and corrective action plans.

While educators almost universally recognize that schools need to be held more publicly accountable for their results, NCLB's original metrics are not the right approach to accomplishing that goal.

While the district says the policies are needed to hold charter schools accountable, a coalition of charter leaders say the rules unduly limit the autonomy afforded charter schools under state law and their ability to offer a high - quality education.

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Chris Minnich, executive director, Council of Chief State School Officers: «Congress must reauthorize ESEA this year to create a long - term, stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.»

Providing more flexibility to schools, districts and states — while also holding them accountable — is the goal of many people in both parties.

«Increasingly, parents understand that charter schools were precisely given the flexibility to be independent of the many constraints under California's Education codes, allowing them to be more innovative while simultaneously being held accountable for improved student achievement.

In today's political climate, we are proposing to hold teachers accountable for results while still not giving them much authority over their schools.

Welcoming charter schools to the system while holding them just as accountable for student performance as district schools.

While closely regulated by the local school district, charter schools are able to exercise increased autonomy but are held strictly accountable for both academic growth and fiscal practices in return.

Now is the time for bold and innovative reforms that reward teachers and schools that show significant progress while holding failures accountable.

«Charter schools are independent public schools allowed freedom to be more innovative, while being held accountable for improved student achievement.

More recently, schools have adopted positive, inclusionary methods of behavior modification, which, in theory, consider present and future concerns by holding students accountable while also repairing harm and rehabilitating relationships.

Unlike NCLB, ESSA reduces the specificity of federal requirements while increasing the ability of States and school systems to define how school boards individual schools are held accountable for student achievement.

Charter schools are independent public schools that have the freedom to be more innovative while being held strictly accountable for advancing student achievement.

Charters are independent public schools that are free to be more innovative while being held more accountable than traditional public schools for improved student achievement.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

While the state of Connecticut is one of the 49 states who spend more money on their wealthy schools than their poor schools is not held accountable.

The law gives charter schools access to more state money while setting standards by which the state can hold charters accountable.

But while observers think it's promising that many lawmakers are now recognizing the importance of social and emotional skills, many are worried that measuring whether students have become more persistent, resilient or compassionate could be much more difficult and more politically fraught than testing whether kids can read and simplify polynomials, and that the science for holding schools accountable for these important, but more abstract skills just isn't there yet.

These are self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.26 While there are existing assessments that measure aspects of SEL for particular groups of students, none of these assessments» purpose is to hold schools accountable for students» SEL.27 Nonetheless, providing local educators with insights into how well students are developing their SEL can be useful to inform instructional practice.

Charters are tuition - free public schools open to all, independent of the traditional public school systems, and free to choose their own educational programs while being held accountable for improved student performance.

Accountability: nine states now hold high schools accountable for the college readiness of their graduates and offer incentives for improving college - ready graduation rates, while eight more are planning to do so.

However, Obama wants to replace the federal adequate yearly progress system with state - developed accountability models, while Romney wants to arm parents with data and choices so that they, as education consumers, can hold schools accountable.

Even as we work with states to offer flexibility from existing law, the Obama administration will support a bipartisan effort by Congress to create a law that supports a well - rounded education while holding schools, districts and states accountable for results.

While students are expected to be held accountable through state - mandated tests, it does not appear that charter school teachers fall under these same regulations.

While the former school is held accountable to gather as many field experts as possible to publish the most elegant book, the latter focuses on freedom of expression that squeezes every last bit of rigorous schedule to transform materials in their head into concrete conversation in the form of readable texts.