Sentences with phrase «improving local accountability»

These directors would focus on bringing greater coherence to the process of school creation, raising standards and improving local accountability.

Not exact matches

And as we seek to devolve more responsibilities to the local level, we will also explore the ways of improving the legitimacy and accountability of primary care trusts and of the commissioning decisions they make on behalf of their local communities.

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

They spoke of raising standards, reducing class sizes, encouraging choices, building new schools, improving teacher quality, toughening accountability, and strengthening local control.

The 1909 law, which is still in place, was intended to improve education by providing increased state involvement in public schools while still permitting considerable local control and accountability.

The Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) is a multi-year strategic plan designed to improve services...

The letter lauds the bill for leaving teacher evaluations up to states and local districts, maintaining collective bargaining rights, improving assessments for English language learners and rolling back No Child Left Behind's punitive accountability system that scores schools and states based on student proficiency.

The letter lauds the bill for leaving teacher evaluations up to states and local districts, maintaining collective bargaining rights, improving assessments for English language learners and rolling back NCLB's punitive accountability system that scores schools and states based on student proficiency.

The brief provides state and local policymakers and education and juvenile justice leaders with information about how they can use the accountability requirements under ESSA to improve the quality of education and postsecondary and workforce success for youth in juvenile justice facilities.

As you read these conversations, which we conducted this year, you will find a strong explanation for why accountability practices matter and an honest analysis of how states, school districts, and local campuses can improve those practices.

While school districts and charters now have greater discretion to allocate resources according to local needs, they also are required to describe how they are spending resources to improve student outcomes and implement the new standards in their local accountability plans.

The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.

[Read more...] about Does Your Local Control Accountability Plan Deliver on the Promise of Improved or Increased Services for English Learners?

Capacity Building — The district has set aside significant funding to improve community awareness of the importance of attendance in its Local Control Accountability Plan.

The budget also proposes a $ 1.6 billion early education block grant that combines three existing programs to promote local flexibility, focusing on disadvantaged students and improved accountability.»

Attendance Works and Children Now created Accountable for Attendance: Addressing Chronic Student Absence In Your Local Control and Accountability Plan to help districts, county boards of education and community partners deploy the best strategies for tracking and improving attendance.

Such investments would likely improve school climate, which is one of the State's Eight Priority Areas that each Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) must address.

Since then, a review of the evolution of our assessment culture reveals the almost complete dominance of a blind faith that high - stakes accountability testing — local, state, national, international and interplanetary — is the way to improve schools.

She urged states to rethink how to use local resources in their accountability systems to «improve outcomes for students they have underserved for far too long.»

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg called for greater scrutiny, oversight and local accountability «to ensure school standards improve and the taxpayer gets value for money».

ASR is working on topics such as: exploring models for coherent federal, state, and local accountability systems, developing guidance to assist states in producing efficient and precise processes for system implementation, and creating strategies for improving the clarity and utility of accountability outcomes to promote student achievement.

A. LCAP stands for a Local Control Accountability Plan, which each school district must write to explain its goals and strategies for improving achievement for all students.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan summarizes a three - year plan for meeting student needs, including increasing or improving services for foster children, English learners and students in poverty.

With the promise of local accountability and coordinated efforts to improve, the district is one of nine in a consortium called the California Office to Reform Education — which includes Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco — seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.

The bill would also require the California Department of Education to «suspend LCFF funding if a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) is not significantly improving pupil reading and comprehension skills and English learner performance» and to «prohibit educational agencies from receiving LCFF monies if their LCAP does not include evidence - based programs.»

In this piece, Fullan identifies three major issues with California's implementation of the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) process and offers recommendations for improving it.

These include the implementation of new California Standards, 1 the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and the transformation of California's education accountability systems from the «test and judge» methods of the past to the «support and improve» approaches of the future that now have irreversible momentum.

In passing the district's first Local Control and Accountability Plan, the trustees of the East Side Union High School District agreed that the LCAP needs more details to meet the commitment to improve the academic performance of African - American students.

Findings explicitly called for replacing the «fundamentally flawed» status quo with a system that would «improve the alignment between the accountability system and the decision - making responsibilities, increasing flexibility at the local level.»

In this role, Holly directed a wide range of state and local policy initiatives focused on improving educational outcomes for children through promoting autonomy, accountability, and equity in New Orleans charter schools.

«The purpose is not to give states and districts a reprieve from accountability, but rather to unleash energy to improve our schools at the local level.»

California's school funding model is based on a powerful idea: improve outcomes by directing more resources to high - need students and use a multiple - measure accountability system that supports local decision - making.

Subject to this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall make and administer a compliance, safety, and accountability grant program to assist States, local governments, and other entities and persons with motor carrier safety and enforcement on highways and other public roads, new entrant safety audits, border enforcement, hazardous materials safety and security, consumer protection and household goods enforcement, and other programs and activities required to improve the safety of motor carriers as determined by the Secretary.

Statewide accountability systems have emerged as a strategy for improving child outcomes because they can impact local action.