Sentences with phrase «into local accountability»

If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

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Additional Accountability Requirements: Code 20 -26-9 (also known as Act 111, 2006) requires each school board to establish a coordinated school health advisory council and adopt a local wellness policy that takes the advisory council's recommendations into consideration.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

In the medium to long term, we must amend the law and constitution to strengthen Parliament's ability to oversight the executive (in order to promote effective checks and balances); inject meritocratic selection and fiduciary accountability into the governance of the state corporate sector; and allow for popular election of district mayors to promote local government decentralization and effectiveness.

Accountability and control will move out of the obscure network of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities, and into the hands of recognisable, visible members of the community: that is, local GPs, working with local nurses and hospital consultants.

These sought to cement local democratic accountability and to ensure that the Lansley reforms are significantly altered by Lib Dems before being passed into law, preventing marketisation and ensuring the NHS is not opened up to price competition and fragmentation.

What happened in those years is that the national Green Party structure was changed from a mass - membership party structure of dues - paying members organized in local chapters into a party structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file members.

The Koret Task Force at the Hoover Institution (see sidebar, page 16), of which I am a member, believes that an evolved form of the ESEA that retains rigorous accountability is preferable to returning control of public schooling to local public - school monopolies and states, which will fall into old habits all too quickly.

Local education agencies translated increased accountability into decreased identification.

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) establishes new opportunities for building and supporting birth - to - third - grade systems at both state and local levels, enabling states to integrate B - 3rd strategies into their new focus on equity, accountability, assessment, professional learning and school improvement.

Alaska is working local interim tests into its accountability system as a measure of school quality or student success for elementary schools.

Accountability: If all schools were put into academy trusts, operating across many different parts of the country, how will individual schools remain accountable to parents and their local community?

He said the programme was operating with «a complete lack of financial transparency and local accountability» and «has allowed unqualified teachers into our schools».

That is not to say that it was a good idea, but it is miles away from the idea that all schools should be ripped away from local authority control and accountability, and into «independent» hands.

A practical way is to integrate metrics into districts» Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP) process.

The board, the California Department of Education and consultant WestEd are more than two years into developing a set of rubrics to be used by county offices of education and a state oversight body to evaluate how well school districts are meeting goals set within their Local Control Accountability Plans.

The too - much - testing complaints that then ended up getting into the local mix also helped derail accountability.

People already are raising concerns that some state officials are too eager to close low - performing schools, expand charters, or intrude into local decision - making — and that schools serving high - poverty communities undoubtedly will feel accountability measures target them for scrutiny.

The cycle aims to unify the CORE accountability measures (SQII), the Single Plan for Student Achievement, and the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) into a cohesive practice of planning, reflecting on, and refining district approaches taccountability measures (SQII), the Single Plan for Student Achievement, and the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) into a cohesive practice of planning, reflecting on, and refining district approaches tAccountability Plan (LCAP) into a cohesive practice of planning, reflecting on, and refining district approaches to improvement.

Next year districts will be able to compare their chronic absenteeism rates for different student groups to state averages for the first time and incorporate findings into their Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP).

Michael Kirst, president of the State Board of Education, which will create the template for the LCAP that districts will use, says that the API «will morph into a broader set of measures» that local districts will use to set goals under their Local Control and Accountability local districts will use to set goals under their Local Control and Accountability Local Control and Accountability Plan.

And the documents for spending, called Local Control and Accountability Plan or LCAPs, often run hundreds of pages, morphing into the very same bureaucratic, compliance - driven exercises that Brown said plagued top - down accountabAccountability Plan or LCAPs, often run hundreds of pages, morphing into the very same bureaucratic, compliance - driven exercises that Brown said plagued top - down accountabilityaccountability systems.

Civil rights groups are pushing equity into the spotlight by asking policymakers to better address the needs of historically underserved students through resource distribution and in local, state, and federal accountability systems.

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