Sentences with phrase «lack of accountability requirements»

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These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

While this lack of expertise is not disqualifying in itself, her responses to questions at her Senate confirmation hearing about fundamental education functions such as the federal requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and accountability for public funds were unsettling to educators across the country.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

Skeptics also question the prospect of diverting more public dollars to North Carolina private schools, most of which are religious institutions lacking the testing accountability and non-discrimination requirements imposed on traditional public schools.

Overbilling schemes can be attributed to three factors: the lack of accountability most lawyers take for granted, the fact that most legal jobs are «infinitely expandable,» and the ingenuity of lawyers facing onerous billable hour requirements.

Mr Vincent expressed a general concern among representative bodies that not only was the protection of native title compromised by the lack of resources but also that the failure to provide sufficient funding to comply with the increased accountability requirements for representative bodies was unfair to office bearers of the representative bodies, who could be personally liable where they were unable to carry out their functions.