Sentences with phrase «n't holding schools accountable»

What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.

Some believe the data used in the SPF isn't comprehensive enough and does not hold schools accountable for their work in early childhood education.

The state has agreed to not hold schools accountable for the first year's results.

We couldn't hold the school accountable.

They undercut the progress of the past few decades by requiring parents to sign away hard - sought rights and do not hold schools accountable for students» progress.

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Someone who was not held accountable for their actions when they were expelled from school.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

«I don't understand why the DOE thought its job was to hold schools accountable, not support them,» he said.

Mr. de Blasio has said he'll be held accountable for schools, and that if they don't improve within three years, he'll close them — something he criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg for doing, arguing the process happened too hastily.

The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be held more accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.

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.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

Not so, says the Task Force, calling instead for systemic change that will hold schools accountable, give parents more choices, and provide citizens with a transparent education system whose accomplishments they can assess.

Apparently, some people favor using common standards to hold schools accountable, but they don't want those standards to guide classroom instruction.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

EdNext reports a clear plurality in favor of the Common Core when it notes that the standards will be used hold schools accountable and an evenly divided public when the accountability connection is not made.

«Holding principals accountable, not for the circumstances of their schools and students, but for what they choose to do with the raw materials they have in hand, is a must.»

The real disagreement among reformers is not whether there should be accountability, but to whom schools should be held accountable: parents or bureaucrats.

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

It might be important to consider how well a given school is performing with its level of resources, but it wouldn't make sense, for example, to hold a school principal accountable for something he or she can't control.

These efforts are driven by the desire to hold schools accountable for the performance of all their students — a hugely important goal that history does not allow us to take for granted.

Taken together, Weingarten is arguing we should hold schools accountable for resource equity, but not actually take any steps to alleviate funding inequities within a district.

Equity is fundamentally about fairness and resources, and it should be a funding decision, not something we hold individual schools accountable for.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

Holding teachers accountable for students» academic achievement gains is not inconsistent with students» accomplishing other things in school.

NCLB held schools accountable for every subgroup that had a sufficient number of students (called the minimum «n - size»).

In ordinary language, only individuals, not entities such as schools, can be held accountable.

Unless you still believe in holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.

It is unacceptable to hold students accountable for meeting standards that their schools are not staffed to help them meet.

Although the authors are to be applauded for wanting to hold charter schools accountable to high performance standards, that does not save Dust - Up from being best assigned to the dustbin.

We do not raise any principled objections to holding schools accountable or testing students annually.

Not only are many charter schools enjoying success, but they are also held accountable in a way regular public schools are nNot only are many charter schools enjoying success, but they are also held accountable in a way regular public schools are notnot.

It also re-creates a pretty inequitable system, given that each school will have different groups of students that meet minimum n - size that will be held accountable under each component.

Does that mean that we shouldn't use test scores to hold individual schools accountable?

Authorizers, not SEA staff, would hold those schools accountable, and they would do it in a nuanced way — by crafting school - specific performance contracts with each.

The coalition, we are told, «doesn't say schools and teachers shouldn't be held accountable for how well they do their jobs.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

If schools are not held accountable by choice, then they have to be accountable by some mechanism.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

Raising the expected performance standard in each year of school and holding all teachers and students accountable for achieving these higher standards may not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian schools.

Schools are not held accountable for their students» performance on the Stanford - 9.

Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding system is based on the idea that school districts, not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then held accountable for students» results.

The State of California has also ruled up in la la land that no state testing will be used to judge the learning of children or for schools to be held accountable with, in other words, the State is not using the new State Test to measure learning.

Many proponents of private school choice — both the voucher and tax credit scholarship versions — take for granted that schools won't participate (or shouldn't participate) if government asks too much of them, regulates their practices, requires them to reveal closely held information and — above all — demands that they be publicly accountable for student achievement.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

A third group of respondents were not told the standards would be «used to hold public schools accountable for their performance.»

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

As long as a significant portion of students aren't reaching these so - called «outdated» state standards, we must continue to assess the skills and hold schools accountable for the results.