Sentences with phrase «new accountability system»

As states undertake the development of new accountability systems, this forum explored how research and leading practice can inform our efforts.

A departure from the readiness goals could also throw into uncertainty efforts some states have taken to build new accountability systems.

It's crucial for educators to be involved in these implementation decisions, particularly around new accountability systems, professional development and evaluation requirements, and well - rounded education provisions.

That means waivers states, who have created brand new accountability systems, don't have to do less reporting.

But what they're not getting at all right is California's own new accountability system for schools and districts (being rushed to completion next month due to a deadline imposed by state law).

Although LEAs are likely to be given a lengthy transition period before serious intervention is contemplated by either the counties or state, new federal education law — the Every Student Succeeds Act — calls on states to have new accountability systems in place for the 2016 - 17 school year.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed by Congress in December 2015, provides states with significant flexibility to implement new accountability systems.

Since states are creating their own new accountability systems via ESEA waivers, they must tackle this issue if AECs are to be treated differently.

Under ESSA, states will establish new accountability systems that will include additional indicators of success that reflect a broader picture of how schools are serving all children.

Instead of a progressive principal complaining about Gotham's new accountability system squishing her student's creative impulses, however, we hear an 18 - year veteran school leader who was shocked by the C grade the school received in 2010 and determined to do something about it:

So as states create new accountability systems over the next eighteen months or so, the basic issue will be this: What should be delegated to SEAs, and what should live elsewhere?

In other words, ESSA's invitation to create new accountability systems comes at a time when conditions allow us to see accountability in an entirely new light.

Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who once attempted to take over LA Unified and later founded a public school network, criticized the state's new accountability system Wednesday at a panel discussion with education experts.

Minnesota's new accountability system increases the focus on equity by supporting high schools with graduation rates below 67 percent overall or for any student group.

The fact that the common accountability put into place by No Child has been replaced with 39 new accountability systems also means that it is harder to compare data on state, district, and school performance, and thus harder to achieve successful implementation of the standards.

Arguing that the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions (as well as the less - than - worthy accountability systems launched as part of the Obama Administration's waiver gambit) do little more than «test and punish» the NEA - AFT coalition is demanding new accountability systems that «support and improve ``, whatever that means.

However, Steinberg's bill was an extremely technical piece of legislation, which proposed a complex new accountability system that adds graduation rates and other measures to the API to establish a new index to be called the Education Quality Index.

With most U.S. states having waivers from certain NCLB requirements, dashboards are shaping new accountability systems.

Kentucky's new accountability system calls for important new emphasis on these gaps, and that added focus is clearly needed.

Zeiger indicated that California's new accountability system probably would incorporate that approach.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

California's new accountability system for schools and districts is complicated beyond imagining and does not lend itself to useful interpretation by parents, taxpayers, voters, or policymakers.

The Council of Chief State School Officers is partnering with Chiefs for Change, Achieve, and Ed Counsel to help states design new accountability systems.

Many states have been moving to develop new accountability systems that gauge school performance using a range of measures, not just test scores, and that incorporate the use of performance assessments and school - quality reviews to assess school performance and needs.

• Lincoln Elementary, a school with a large percentage of low - income students, was flagged this year as a low - performing «focus» school under the state's new accountability system based on state test scores.

New accountability systems under ESSA and strengthening Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are two of the leading topics in state education policy today.

States are required to establish new accountability systems that include annual test scores, graduation rates for high schools, an additional academic indicator for pre-secondary schools and a measure of how well English learners are achieving proficiency.

At this same moment, ESSA is inviting states to create new accountability systems.

It is interesting to note that California's Department of Education, in conjunction with the state board, has been working to develop its own new accountability system having discarded the Academic Performance Index in the wake of new funding and assessment systems.

His ideas should serve as food for thought for California educators as they work to create a new accountability system.

So, California has taken a step in the right direction with its new accountability system.

In a conversation with me, Paul Tough talks about how children (really) succeed and the implications of his work as California designs a new accountability system.

The moratorium would end at the same time as the pilot when the state would be looking to possibly adopt a new accountability system statewide.

Many issues will be debated as states design their new accountability systems.

Even better, the passage of the new federal education law gives us the chance to create a new accountability system that can serve as the vehicle for these reforms.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

Only time will tell how the new accountability system is to unfold.

At the same time, she shepherded the state education department through a host of major policy shifts, from lowering class sizes to implementing a new accountability system and a controversial bilingual education law.

Critics also pointed out that the new accountability systems under the waivers may hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

Our new accountability system will reward school districts and acknowledge them for high - quality career and tech programs, high - quality fine arts programs.

For example, new accountability systems should pay more attention to «advanced» and less to «proficient,» or they should calculate the «value - added» gains of gifted children (as Ohio's does).

States should start by focusing on what their priorities are, where their student scores have been improving or not, and using those as the basis for their new accountability system.