Sentences with phrase «new system of accountability»

With its waiver request, CORE seeks a new system of accountability based on four goals: (1) expectations of college and career readiness for all students, (2) an emphasis on capacity - building over accountability, (3) fostering of intrinsic motivation for change, and (4) targeted capacity - building for instructional and leadership effectiveness.

But to some school reformers, Ritz is subtly backing away from what was supposed to be a tough new system of accountability, possibly squandering a chance to greatly improve teaching in the state.

AB 2548 would have helped guarantee that our state's new system of accountability will provide parents, educators and community groups with the information they need to help increase equity and close achievement gaps that deprive the state's most vulnerable students of a level playing field.

The 126 - page proposal states that, «At its heart, CORE's goal is to build a new system of accountability rooted in a moral imperative to educate all children and engineered on a foundation of transparent data sharing and mutual accountability.»

Not exact matches

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.

Professional networks, social accountability systems, the role of non-government organisations, together with the mobilisation of action by subsets of willing participants and other new methods of moving global governance forward, are required.

«As a fiduciary of the New York City Employee Retirement System for the last 8 years, Scott has worked with his fellow trustees to grow the City's pension funds through prudent investments, improving diversification and ensuring more rigorous assessment of risks to investments such as corporate accountability and violations of environmental regulations.»

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.

This is the first in a series of posts describing the transparency, accountability, and financial benefits of an Open FOIL system for New York City.

This is the second in a series of posts describing the transparency, accountability, and financial benefits of an Open FOIL system for New York City.

One important venue of parliamentary scrutiny and accountability is the Commons select committee system, which has just elected a new cohort of committee chairs.

«This bill will ensure that accountability and transparency are placed at the heart of the new system,» justice secretary Jack Straw said last week.

At noon, Citizens Union will unveil its position on a variety of police oversight reforms and urge New York City government officials to enact local laws that create a more cohesive system of public oversight with enhanced accountability to New Yorkers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

New York, NY - On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»

Premise: After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, another international incident involving Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Avengers results in collateral damage, prompting politicians to form a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to call in the Avengers, which results in the fracturing of the team into two opposing factions — one led by Captain America who wishes to operate without regulation, and one led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) who supports government oversight — while they attempt to protect the world from a new enemy.

But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

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.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

Even the weak statement from the New York Court of Appeals that new accountability should accompany added funding was met with indifference by the judicial referees, who accepted the thrust of Mayor Bloomberg's testimony when he appeared before them: he is already accountable through the electoral system, so just send the monNew York Court of Appeals that new accountability should accompany added funding was met with indifference by the judicial referees, who accepted the thrust of Mayor Bloomberg's testimony when he appeared before them: he is already accountable through the electoral system, so just send the monnew accountability should accompany added funding was met with indifference by the judicial referees, who accepted the thrust of Mayor Bloomberg's testimony when he appeared before them: he is already accountable through the electoral system, so just send the money.

First, the 2007 — 08 school year was the first year of both the bonus program and a new citywide accountability system.

The bonus program was implemented alongside a new citywide accountability system that provided strong incentives to improve student achievement, regardless of whether a school was participating in the bonus program.

David J. Deming sits down with EdNext's Marty West to discuss his new study on the effects of a test - based accountability system in Texas on the Education Next Podcast.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network, said: «There needs to be more accountability in the system so parents can get the change they want when a local school is failing.

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.

Alternatively, it could be argued that NCLB should not be viewed as in effect until the 2003 — 04 academic year, when new state accountability systems were more fully implemented as well as more informed by guidance from and through negotiations with the U.S. Department of Education.

He is currently directing studies that will explore new methods for evaluating gains in scores on high - stakes tests and evaluate the use of value - added models in educational accountability systems.

New Mexico, which already includes more than a dozen «college and career readiness» indicators in its high school accountability system, is a good example of what is possible in this area.

Texas education officials have announced a sweeping review of test security and a new monitoring plan for the state accountability system after a newspaper investigation alleged that assessment results for hundreds of schools throughout the state — including one celebrated elementary school in Houston — showed evidence of cheating and other irregularities.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

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.

We reached this conclusion after examining responses to a citywide survey of parents of children in grades K — 8 and students in grades 6 and higher, which was conducted at the end of the 2006 — 07 and 2007 — 08 school years as a part of the city's new school accountability system.

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

New York has the best state system of school accountability in the country, according to «Testing the Testers 2003.»

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).

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

If you follow the increasing use of Value - Added Measures (VAMs) and Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) in state -, district -, school -, and teacher - accountability systems, read this very good new Mathematica working paper.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

This all means inevitable increased direct accountability to match new levels of autonomy, an increase in the number of small / medium MATs adopting corporate governance and management structures, the centralisation of some functions and leadership responsibilities and a need to develop internal capacity to respond the new local complexity in the system.

From 1998 to 2000, most stories adopted a fairly neutral tone, introducing the public to the new accountability system and offering tepid praise and criticism of the testing regimen.

Hickok: The whole purpose of the peer review process is to talk to, listen to, and work with states as they make whatever changes need to be made to align their accountability systems with AYP under the new law.

The State Report examines how six states (Arizona, California, Illinois, Georgia, New York, and Virginia) designed their accountability systems to meet the Title I requirements and the implications of these provisions for schools with large numbers of low - income and minority students.

In the new issue of Ed Next, Bill Tucker writes about the new data system being rolled out by Texas, «one that aims to move districts from collecting data solely for accountability to collecting it to improve schools.»

In addition, the report takes a hard look at the Adult Basic Education (ABE) system at the state Department of Education (DOE) and calls for a series of reforms, new investments, and accountability measures.

Also in this issue: an analysis of open educational resources and what the federal role should be in facilitating their adoption; an assessment of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first few years in office in New York City; and an expert debate on the merits of two different approaches to designing state accountability systems.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.