Sentences with phrase «holding schools accountable on»

The new law put the burden of holding schools accountable on their authorizers, the organizations providing their charters, and the burden of overseeing the authorizers on the state.

Let's change the debate to defining quality and equity and getting a system that transparently holds all schools accountable on those dimensions.

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

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

The organization also noted the city schools Code of Conduct holds students accountable for «harassment based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability or religion, including cyber-harassment, against members of the school community.»

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing schools to hold teachers accountable based on teacher evaluation results.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

He criticizes the federal law for basing school accountability on a single year's test scores and holding schools accountable for the performance of transient students.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

Nevada holds schools accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

In any case, the NCLB - era strategies — centered on setting standards, administering assessments, and holding everybody «accountable» for the results on those tests — have yielded only modest gains, especially in the high school years.

Some states in the United States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Consequently, school administrators and educators are being held accountable for student achievement on state - mandated assessments, now more than ever, through the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM).

That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.

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.

As a result, No Child Left Behind holds schools accountable but, when a school fails, tenure and seniority assured by statute and / or collective bargaining agreements allow lemons to dance on to the school down the street.

Now, wherever you stand on the state of testing in education, the reality of your classroom at present is that this data is being collected and it is being used to hold the schools accountable for their work.

This school focuses on improving teaching practice through a whole school approach, and all staff are held accountable.

The pattern of differences across schools, across and within school districts, argues for enacting school accountability policies that hold schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

I think all too often the narrow focus on what can be easily tested (and what schools are held accountable for) has a retrograde effect on depth of learning in the classroom.

The spotlight was directed on groups of students whose low performance could have been concealed in the past, and districts were held accountable for every school.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

With the growing awareness that traditional schools of education are failing to produce exceptional teachers, however, a national effort is under way to ensure that education schools are held accountable for the impact their graduates have on student achievement.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

In light of widespread efforts to hold schools accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.

The days of principals resting on gridiron victories are gone — especially in Texas, where districts and schools are being held accountable as never before for academic results.

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.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

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.

Schools are not held accountable for their students» performance on the Stanford - 9.

Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding system is based on the idea that school districts, not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then held accountable for students» results.

The focus on holding students, educators, schools, and school districts accountable for achievement is a critical element to ensuring high - quality educational opportunities and access for each student.

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.

And further clarity on whether states can measure things like students who earn Advanced Placement credit in their systems for holding schools accountable would be helpful, he said.

All schools present significant challenges for states and other entities charged with holding them accountable for their effects on student learning outcomes.

Bridging the gap between high school and college by using high school assessments for admissions and placement, providing feedback to high schools on the college performance of their graduates, and holding postsecondary institutions accountable for the academic success of students they admit;

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

What impact would a move to less frequent testing have on states» abilities to provide parents with meaningful information on school quality and to hold accountable schools that contribute the least to student learning?

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.

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

Loveless concludes: «The past two decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on ratcheting up expectations through standards and testing and holding schools accountable for academic progress.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.