Sentences with phrase «in holding their schools accountable»

The No Child Left Behind law — the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes.

Unless you still believe in holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.

But urban leaders — whose schools are most likely to struggle to reach the law's current goals and most apt to face such sanctions — are urging Congress to be more aggressive in holding their schools accountable in the future.

«Unfortunately, an independent peer review of state education accountability plans (published at Check State Plans) reveals that Texas» plan is weak in holding schools accountable for the success of all English learners.»

And, the entity that we should all expect to lead the way in holding all schools accountable for students» achievement levels is the state government.

«By using this new measure, states will be more honest in holding schools accountable and ensuring that students succeed,» said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

When it comes to the role of the federal government in public schools, a majority of respondents said Washington should play no role in holding schools accountable, paying for schools or deciding the amount of testing.

Not exact matches

Until student loans can be forgiven in bankruptcy, or until schools are held accountable, the crisis will continue.

«We are holding everyone accountable and kids have to earn their playing time by working hard in school, practice, the weight room, study hall and in the community.»

In the end, it will continue to be up to the student athletes and their parents to hold the schools accountable.

When it comes to holding principals accountable in his effort to turn around struggling city schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to take a page out of the police playbook.

«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).

«There is already a mechanism in place to hold charter schools accountable; Mike Mulgrew should know this better than anyone because his was closed.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

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A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, delivering a blow to an ambitious effort to hold accountable the makers of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre before the case ever went to trial.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

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.

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.

«I am ready to go head - to - head with Mayor de Blasio and hold him accountable for his lack of leadership and mismanagement of the subway crisis, traffic nightmares, rise in homelessness and failing schools,» Malliotakis said of the news that her opponent dropped out.

«We have to hold our schools accountable for raising student achievement,» DOE Chancellor Carmen Fariña said in a statement.

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

After an analysis of potential workers» compensation claims in sedentary environments across several states, Drexel University's Natalie Pedersen, JD, an assistant professor of legal studies in the LeBow College of Business, and Lisa Eisenberg, JD, a graduate of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and current judicial clerk, claim employers should be held accountable because it will force them to reduce such harms in their work environments.

At the beginning of a school semester in yoga class, I like to give my teen students lots of important responsibilities; including taking roll call, setting up the room for yoga and holding each other accountable for appropriate behavior.

I draw the comparison because Moyle, like Hughes (and unlike the hucksters behind the countless failed high - school romps of the past two decades), has empathy for his young characters — though Hughes was less reluctant to hold them accountable for their angst, marking Moyle as the bigger suck - up — and because he leans towards having an aesthetic, especially in Empire Records, that favours, as Hughes's does, quarantining close - ups and medium close - ups.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Karen Mapp: I agree that many parents see this as a way to finally hold schools accountable — especially parents in communities of color.

But in the absence of policies that hold high schools accountable for the remediation rates of their graduates, it's hard to imagine they'll have much incentive to change.

Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

EdNext reports a clear plurality in favor of the Common Core when it notes that the standards will be used hold schools accountable and an evenly divided public when the accountability connection is not made.

In Texas, and under NCLB nationwide, holding schools accountable for the performance of every student subgroup has proven to be a mixed blessing.

«Holding principals accountable, not for the circumstances of their schools and students, but for what they choose to do with the raw materials they have in hand, is a must.»

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

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.

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

Rather than hold schools to account for student performance at one point in time, we can now hold them accountable for all students» progress from one year to the next.

In fact, exit exams are only holding schools accountable for teaching basic skills, always assumed to be their primary responsibility.

I know that states need to hold schools accountable in some way....

A report from the Southern Regional Education Board recommends steps for policymakers to take in the interest of ensuring that charter schools in their states are being held accountable for improving student achievement.

Holding teachers accountable for students» academic achievement gains is not inconsistent with students» accomplishing other things in school.

In ordinary language, only individuals, not entities such as schools, can be held accountable.

Texas is frequently cited as a national leader in efforts to raise academic performance and hold schools accountable for student performance.

They praised, also, the inclusion of national «opportunity to learn» standards to describe the conditions that must occur in schools before students could be held accountable to rigorous new standards.

It also addresses their emotional, physical, and developmental capacities, and schools should be held accountable for enhancing these and for connecting them to a student's opportunities for full participation in American life: economic self - sufficiency, equal opportunity, and independent living.

Each year a strong majority of the public has expressed support for federal efforts to hold schools accountable by requiring that students be tested in reading and math.

It took another authorization and a clear signal from the Bush administration that the federal government was serious about accountability in order for the states to come up with plans to hold their own schools and districts accountable.