Sentences with phrase «law hold schools accountable»

Nor does the law hold schools accountable for recent transfers.

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The new school governance law passed by the state Legislature this summer gives parents and UFT members new tools to hold the DOE accountable and to have input into policy at the central and school levels.

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.

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.

He criticizes the federal law for basing school accountability on a single year's test scores and holding schools accountable for the performance of transient students.

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.

The new federal education law encourages the use of new ways of holding schools accountable.

There is an odd tension running through many of NCLB's accountability provisions between creating serious consequences that hold educators and schools accountable and the law's goal of improving student achievement.

That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

This would include, among other things, changing states» charter laws to allow the participation of private schools, developing a student - based funding formula for education, and establishing clear rules for ensuring that new Catholic (and other private) charter schools are able to maintain sufficient autonomy while being held accountable for results.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

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.

The National Alliance's charter school model law is a template for states to write laws that encourage the creation and growth of high - quality charter schools while holding underperforming schools and authorizers accountable.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

The law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015 gives states much of the authority to hold schools and school districts accountable for student success and to implement standards and assessments.

Indiana Public Charter Schools Association president Russ Simnick said charter school sponsors are generally given broad authority under state law to hold schools accountable to high academic staSchools Association president Russ Simnick said charter school sponsors are generally given broad authority under state law to hold schools accountable to high academic staschools accountable to high academic standards.

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

The law required states to determine whether their students were meeting state academic standards and held schools accountable for the results.

And the charter school law is really all about holding schools accountable for student outcomes and for fiscal stability.

They hold charter schools accountable for students» academic performance, compliance with state laws and management of public funding.

Signed into law in 1994, Arizona's charter schools are public schools that are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind reforms — signed into law in 2002 — attempted to tie federal funding to academic progress to hold schools accountable for student outcomes.

Under the Obama administration's education policies, thousands of elementary and secondary schools are being held accountable for the academic performance of students who had been «invisible» under No Child Left Behind, the Bush - era federal education law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday.

Under the No Child Left Behind law, passed by Congress in 2001, states were held accountable for failing schools.

It began with Sarah's memories of watching a sibling with extensive medical and learning challenges navigate her education, as well as her parents fighting for their child's basic educational rights and having to become empowered and educated on the law and holding schools accountable.

Lenders should know how state laws and authorizer practices hold charter schools accountable; look at every pertinent public record including intervention and probation notices; and ask their own tough questions about trends in academic performance and evidence of fiscal stewardship.

Proponents of the program believe that holding schools accountable to enforceable regulations and laws is the best way to achieve long - term reform (Dubnick & Justice, 2006).

Even critics of the law admit that one of the NCLB law's greatest achievements has been shining a light on individual groups of students and holding schools accountable for speeding up their progress.

In trying to reverse those trends, he faces the same decentralized educational system and resistance to change that hampered Bush's No Child Left Behind law, which required annual testing to hold schools accountable for closing achievement gaps.

While the district says the policies are needed to hold charter schools accountable, a coalition of charter leaders say the rules unduly limit the autonomy afforded charter schools under state law and their ability to offer a high - quality education.

But suppose the law held high schools accountable only for test scores?

For example, he said that even as the administration has called for wrap - around supports beyond schools — in areas like health and social services — to help children succeed academically, the president's blueprint for overhauling the NCLB law «holds schools accountable for identical results, whether or not they have these [supports].

«School «reformers» should at least follow the law» + «Who Is Holding Education Reformers Accountable?»

Prior to the No Child Left Behind law, only a handful of states calculated these rates and held schools accountable for their performance.

President George W. Bush holds up the law as the centerpiece of his education platform and a critical step in making schools more accountable and students more successful.

Otherwise, the new law gives back to the states the control over setting educational objectives and deciding how to hold students, teachers, schools, and districts accountable for failure to reach them.

on «School «reformers» should at least follow the law» + «Who Is Holding Education Reformers Accountable?»

Individuals, owners or operators of private schools do not have to have experience in education nor are they subject to open meeting laws that ensure important decisions are explained and held accountable to parents and taxpayers.

«School «reformers» should at least follow the law» (Wendy Lecker) and «Who Is Holding Education Reformers Accountable?»

Under the new federal education law, states are encouraged to use «nonacademic» factors to hold schools accountable.

«In the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing schools.

But No Child Left Behind — a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — was the first law to hold schools and districts accountable for the achievement of their English language learner students.

«I support the Parent Trigger law because it gives every parent in Los Angeles the power to transform their children's school and hold the Los Angeles Unified School District accountable for making decisions rooted in what is best for our children and not adults or special inteschool and hold the Los Angeles Unified School District accountable for making decisions rooted in what is best for our children and not adults or special inteSchool District accountable for making decisions rooted in what is best for our children and not adults or special interests.

«I saw 14 charter schools violating state law and I still to this day maintain that the Orleans Parish School Board should be held accountable for those charter schools [that it authorized] that were violating the election law,» he said.

Zanders, the lawyer for the plaintiff, Justice and Beyond, still maintains that the School Board should hold its charters accountable for breaking the law.

The new law put the burden of holding schools accountable on their authorizers, the organizations providing their charters, and the burden of overseeing the authorizers on the state.

«Under current New Hampshire law, public schools are required to provide the opportunity for an adequate education, as defined by the Legislature, and are held accountable through laws and rules that require monitoring and review by the Department of Education.

The law was passed in December 2015 to replace the flawed NCLB, which went into effect in 2002 and dictated the use of English language arts and math standardized test scores to hold schools accountable for student achievement.