Sentences with phrase «local accountability»

The board has requested deeper training on successful turnaround strategies, including the board role in supporting turnaround, as well as a deeper dive into local accountability systems and local turnaround efforts.

Without proper local accountability, transparency and a guarantee that teachers will be properly qualified, our children will continue to be let down.

Last week in my discussion on local accountability, I highlighted how parents, first and foremost, look for local solutions to school level problems.

However, we will need to respond to additional responsibility with increased local accountability.

Local accountability involves active participation and shared power among key actors.

Results, in combination with new online instructional resources and local accountability tools, give parents, educators and stakeholders much more actionable data than ever before.

For high standards in all schools we need real local accountability and oversight.

But their own, local accountability system operates very differently; it emphasizes constructive change, not punishment, for schools and teachers.

The second challenge is the lack of local accountability of these enhanced RSCs.

Including Title IX compliance in the API and the list of factors that may be considered in local accountability plans, Bonilla said, «redefines how student success and school climate are measured.»

School districts may include interim assessment data as an input in local accountability systems

In regard to health care delivery, the Party promises to develop and implement a decentralized model for health care services, which encourages local accountability and community participation.

The law requires states to engage stakeholders, such as school boards, in the development of state accountability plans and strengthens local accountability by giving school districts more control over implementing interventions for low - performing schools.

This difficulty leads to another point discussed in the text: Because federal, state, and local accountability measures focus solely on academic assessments, schools are treated as «organizations of professional individuals» rather than professional organizations.

A highlight of the meeting was the presentation delivered by Families in Schools President and CEO, Oscar Cruz, who spoke to the importance of creating meaningful and authentic opportunities for parent engagement to promote true and long - term local accountability.

Blunkett pointed to a new role for local authorities as the voice or advocate for children and young people within a wider framework of local accountability building on local enterprise partnerships and city regions.

«Labour will reassert its support for local accountability through Local Education Authorities and school governor boards accountable to local communities and local authorities and will return Free Schools and Academies to LEA oversight.»

These directors would focus on bringing greater coherence to the process of school creation, raising standards and improving local accountability.

The LGA said it would like to see a commissioning role for local councils within the selection process and also for local councils to be named as a body which the school's governing body must consult with,» to ensure a genuine local accountability.»

«Nick Cuff: Local policing without local accountability Main Council tax responsible for «soaring living costs»»

Sponsor changing the Constitution to enable the election of all District Assembly Members and District / Municipal / Metropolitan Chief Executives to ensure local accountability and rapid development.

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.

We believe local accountability for education results should be vested in elected school boards.

The partnership includes implementation of the WestEd Local Accountability Professional Development Series (LAPDS).

A move toward reciprocal accountability, in which local districts use multiple measures to report progress to the state and the state provides support to districts to build quality local accountability systems, is possible.

They ask him to consider four principles as he determines which reforms states will need to implement in exchange for the waivers: increased flexibility for state and local accountability coupled with high state standards, promotion of innovative reforms, a system that rewards improvement in student academic growth, and greater transparency and more equitable distribution of all expenditures.

Calling the new state - mandated local accountability plans «a daunting undertaking,» the Legislative Analyst's Office called on the Legislature to allow school districts to write more focused annual plans for achievement.

School Nutrition Programs Local Accountability Review for School Lunch and After School Snack

In addition newspapers often perform a different role in terms of local accountability than their broadcast equivalents.

Smarick said the next U.S. president will likely appoint a governor or former governor given the new policymaking authority granted to states and school districts by ESSA on everything from testing, teacher evaluations, and opting - out of federal aide to Common Core State Standards, local accountability plans and goals.

Yes, the push for attendance needs more oomph behind it than just including it in Local Accountability and Control Plans or posting stale information on the district website.

This results in a more coordinated and accessible system which encourages local accountability.

Proper local accountability would drive a radical change in policing culture, making sure that community concerns (especially anti-social behaviour) are prioritised.

And stronger patient entitlements could sit alongside strengthened local accountability.

Provide that a school and its employees would not be negatively impacted due to a student not taking a state and / or district - level standardized test, such as by ensuring that students who are opted out of standardized tests by a parent or guardian are excluded from performance calculations for state and local accountability measures and from employee evaluations.

This is the type of learning that state and local accountability systems should aspire to promote and nurture.

But it is the prospects for the local accountability offered by the press that many commentators worry about most — both in the UK and the US — if their financial decline continues.

«Labour ministers failed to ensure proper transparency and local accountability to keep it in check,» local government minister Grant Shapps said.

Now plans led by the chancellor, George Osborne, to reinvigorate the idea of «city region» deals outside London, such as the Northern Powerhouse, could offer the chance to bring back some of the local accountability for education that some believe has been stripped out of the system.

The local accountability basis of the Framework is a good approach to take, however, smaller authorities will, because of cuts, be unable to maintain any road safety targets at all.

Mr Clegg also wants an undertaking that GPs will not be forced into forming consortia until they are «ready and willing», steps taken to prevent «the cherry - picking of services by private providers» and assurances that governance and local accountability will be improved.

Patient involvement is vital to local accountability.

Many districts suffer from the question of local accountability; there can be circular finger - pointing among superintendents, principals, and the DOE.

Directly - elected mayors have muddied the waters of local accountability.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have strong local authorities working in partnership with schools under a devolved system of local accountability.

Although the appointees have local accountability to an elected board of outstanding head teachers, their existence points to a growing recognition that you can't run schools directly from Whitehall.

These would be local bodies with local accountability.

Furthermore, the views of parents on the quality of education experienced by their children can be beneficial, as can exploring the extent to which school choice and local accountability are present and a driver of improvement in the current system.