Sentences with phrase «impose accountability measures»

periodic funding - with the related capacity to impose accountability measures as conditions of funding; and

Not exact matches

Critics of NCLB's testing and accountability requirements have a litany of complaints: The tests are inaccurate, schools and teachers should not be responsible for the test performance of unprepared or unmotivated students, the measure of school inadequacy used under NCLB is misleading, the tests narrow the curriculum to what is being tested, and burdens imposed upon teachers and administrators are excessively onerous.

Since low - income families often can not afford anything besides their assigned district school, the government school system has had to impose top - down accountability measures to ensure quality in the absence of choice.

The regulation would impose Education Department - mandated accountability measures promulgating federal government oversight over student and school achievement.

There has been a firestorm in recent months about the alleged «cap» supposedly imposed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) on the percentage of students who are eligible for special education intervention due to disabilities and the related relaxation of accountability measures for students with this classification.

In California, accountability will be imposed according to «multiple measures» in eight «priority areas,» leaving parents entirely mystified about the actual performance of their local school.

Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning calls for replacing the one - shot tests used to impose sanctions under NCLB with multiple measures that better support high - quality teaching and increased student achievement.

Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.

«Unfortunately, this morning the Senate Education and Youth Committee passed a gutted bill that would actually furnish less equitable funding to our public charter schools and imposes unreasonable measures of accountability,» said Tony Roberts, president and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Association.

The «product» that charters are supposed to deliver is better test scores, and they impose corporate - style accountability measures like standardized exams, paying teachers less and firing them at will and eliminating many noninstructional staff positions to achieve their goals.

The accountability measures imposed by NCLB implicitly rejected any argument that racial and economic achievement gaps were the result of broad societal inequities, such as the effects of poverty.