Sentences with phrase «meet accountability standards»

This dual approach would identify schools that need extra supports, whether or not they meet accountability standards or are subject to sanctions.

That can allow schools to meet accountability standards even when their weakest students don't improve.

Using volunteers and mentors are one strategy that can go a long way toward helping meet accountability standards...

«If you actually look at where parents are ending up, they're ending up in their neighborhood charter school,» says Berends, adding that the same was true even when the nearest charter wasn't meeting accountability standards.

It seems that we sometimes get so bogged down in meeting accountability standards that we forget to stop and ask ourselves this important question.

Not exact matches

«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

But Gallippi hopes it will eventually help organizations doing good work to share that and meet higher accountability standards — inherently pressuring others to raise their game.

To become a Certified B Corporation, startups must meet advanced standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency set by the non-profit organization, B Lab.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

As a founding Canadian B Corporation, we've had our business audited to ensure we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and USDA have also cited significant challenges under updated standards with student acceptance, participation, food waste and availability of foods that meet the rules.

Certified B Corporations meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

The inspector general's role is to ensure state government, its employees and those who do business with the state meet the highest standards of honesty, accountability and efficiency.

We meet all 20 of the Better Business Bureau's standards for charity accountability and hold the BBB's Charity Seal.

This is a more general certification given to companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

The report also addresses a second, widely used accountability policy: high - school exit exams that hold students responsible for meeting a set of content standards.

Besides testing effective approaches to meeting student needs, this research helps keep pace with the standards - based accountability movement.

EW: What are some of the concerns educators voice to you about meeting accountability and achievement standards?

Also, if I sit in regularly at school meetings and begin to hear, «testing,» assessment,» «teachers,» «accountability,» and «standards» more than I hear «students, «learning,» «relevance,» and «engaging,» I know this distortion has taken hold.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

In this session, you will see how the practices of group learning and documentation can work together to help you and your students meet standards and address accountability concerns.

The heart of an accountability system lies not in the words of standards documents but in the tests and other assessments that are used to determine whether the standards have been met.

NCATE president Arthur E. Wise attributes this growth to «the new climate of accountability and the desire of institutions to be able to demonstrate that they have met rigorous national standards.»

Policies like top - down accountability, No - Child - Left - Behind style, are «hard,» but they have a «thin» theory of change — namely that if we set standards and hold people accountable for meeting them, they will figure out how to hit those benchmarks.

Accountability measures are based on the goal of having every student meet high standards.

This is evident in the federal law's requirement that each state's accountability system generate a report card for each school and district indicating the proportion of students meeting proficiency standards on state tests of math and reading.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Unfortunately, pre-k standards are often designed to ensure that providers meet a minimum floor of quality — unlike charter school accountability requirements, which encourage them to pursue ever - higher levels of quality.

Eric Hanushek's critique of our study of test scores and the accountability system in Texas does not meet this standard («RAND versus RAND,» Check the Facts, Spring 2001).

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Minnesota moved its testing regimen from February to April in the wake of accountability standards, while Colorado legislators have proposed moving their testing window from March into April, with advocates suggesting that the increased time for instruction would make meeting performance requirements under No Child Left Behind more feasible for struggling schools.

«All that we ask,» said New York official Ira Schwartz, «is that we be given sufficient flexibility so that we can meet the spirit of No Child Left Behind without having to dismantle what we think is, and what has been judged by others to be, a very effective system of standards, assessment, and accountability.»

The accountability standards mandated by state and federal legislators are becoming increasingly difficult to meet for many schools.

In states operating Title I programs under ESEA accountability waivers, curriculum content standards and assessments must meet the additional requirement of evaluating whether students are «college and career - ready.»

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

For almost two decades, school accountability has focused on creating clear content standards for what students should know and when they should know it, testing to measure their mastery of those standards, and applying consequences and rewards to those responsible for the success of students in meeting the standards.

The Smarter Balanced assessments fail to meet basic standards for testing and accountability and should not be used for diagnostic or placement purposes.

Founded more than 25 years ago, they are operated independent of the traditional school district but in addition to the being heldto the same accountability standards as all public schools, charter schools have performance targets that they must meet in order to stay open.

States receiving ESEA accountability waivers are no longer required to identify all schools that fail to meet AYP standards for two consecutive years or more for performance consequences.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

So U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has offered to give out waivers to exempt states from meeting NCLB's accountability standards — and Indiana's going to apply for one.

The underlying assumption of Middle Region District is that local accountability and standards are critical to ensure academic gains among students, meeting or exceeding state standards.

These schools do not face the same public accountability standards that all public schools must meet, including those in Title IX, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and ESEA.

For example, US Government Accountability Office reports from both 2007 and 2013 document how the Washington, DC voucher program has repeatedly failed to meet even the most basic, statutorily required accountability standards, such as maintaining certificates of occupancy and adequate finaAccountability Office reports from both 2007 and 2013 document how the Washington, DC voucher program has repeatedly failed to meet even the most basic, statutorily required accountability standards, such as maintaining certificates of occupancy and adequate finaaccountability standards, such as maintaining certificates of occupancy and adequate financial records.

States must agree to meet Duncan's requirements in order to free themselves from the original dumb requirements: adopt the Common Core standards, participate in a test - development consortium to create Common Core tests, tie teacher and administrator evaluations to test scores, develop a new way to humiliate schools — that is, a new accountability system to replace the old «failure to meet AYP» label — and use that system to fire teachers and close schools.

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.

«I came to believe that accountability, as written into federal law, was not raising standards but dumbing down the schools as states and districts strived to meet unrealistic targets,» she writes.