Sentences with phrase «lot of the accountability measures»

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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.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

«These high net worth, first - generation folks... approach their gift - giving the way they approached their investing — due diligence, measures of accountability, a lot of involvement, each with an agenda.

[B] y taking the standardized testing seriously in that final year, the schools simply may have produced a truer measure of student's actual (better) performance all along, not necessarily a signal that they actually learned a lot more in the one year under the new accountability regime....

They entailed standards in core subjects, plenty of testing, reams of (disaggregated) data, lots of transparency regarding school outcomes, and accountability measures tied to those outcomes.

I'm getting a lot of questions related to linear regression and how the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) may implement linear regression to measure student growth under the new school improvement and accountability system.