Sentences with phrase «lacks measures of accountability»

Christina Brey, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Education Association Council, said the bill lacks measures of accountability and does not specify where funding will come from.

Not exact matches

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

But none of these measures, the report said, address the core problems: abuse by correction officers and a lack of accountability.

Our research showing the lack of relationship between behavioral and self - reported measures of character skills adds to the case for caution in using these measures for evaluation or accountability purposes.

Most voucher programs lack accountability measures, and according to studies of voucher programs, many also lack proper oversight to ensure they meet even the minimal standards that do exist.

The culmination of these changes have had a significant impact on Florida's accountability system and today many Floridians lack confidence in the assessments and school grades as a precise measure of a school's performance,» the superintendents» association notes in a legislative briefing.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

A second major failing in HR 5 is the lack of effective student group accountability measures.

According to the State of the States in Gifted Education, a biennial analysis of state laws and policies to support high - ability and high - potential students conducted by the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted, 28 states lack even a single gifted education performance indicator on their annual report cards or other accountability measure.

Most voucher programs lack accountability measures, and according to studies of voucher programs, many also lack proper oversight to ensure they meet the minimal standards that do exist.

In fact, because of lack of accountability and necessary measures of progress, charter schools and other private voucher schools are less likely to provide students with complete school experiences that serve the students» needs.

Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counterparts.

Lack of progress: Nothing on the CEC website about impact of activities on young people or measures of success and accountability

This impatience manifests as frustration at the perceived lack of achievement, or in the suggestion that Indigenous people must somehow be at fault because of the persistence of the disadvantage (the lack of progress being blamed on «waste» and perceived lack of accountability of Indigenous organizations), [63] a growing intolerance to commitments being made at the highest levels to concrete measures to redress such disadvantage, and in more extreme cases, a return to discredited views which suggest that the only way to improve the situation of Indigenous peoples is for them to assimilate into mainstream society.