Sentences with phrase «mandated local accountability»

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.

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A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

Anyone curious about how local schools were doing could look at pass rates on annual exams in math and reading, the foundation of federally mandated, test - based accountability.

The bill encourages — but doe not mandate — the inclusion of the same data in a school's Local Control Accountability Plan.

But it will look a lot different from those provided in the past because of state law calling for alignment between the SARC and new reporting mandates in the Local Control Accountability Plan.

So with this system, my school district — San Jose Unified School District reported the rosy picture that they were a green school district for the state academic performance indicator on their state mandated Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP).

Many education organizations applaud the enhanced accountability and funding flexibility the bills provide to states and local districts, but civil rights organizations have serious concerns that the loosening of federal accountability mandates could lead to growing achievement gaps.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

In a recent speech, he said that he would like to see more accountability at the local level in carrying out state mandated policies.