Sentences with phrase «only holding schools accountable»

In fact, exit exams are only holding schools accountable for teaching basic skills, always assumed to be their primary responsibility.

NCLB only holds schools accountable for basic skills like math and reading rather than important skills like citizenship, responsibility, developing character, science, history, and appreciation for the arts to name a few.

Not exact matches

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.

But choice works only if choice systems are equitable, schools are held accountable by the state or school district, and parents are given readily understandable information about school quality.

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

In any case, the NCLB - era strategies — centered on setting standards, administering assessments, and holding everybody «accountable» for the results on those tests — have yielded only modest gains, especially in the high school years.

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

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

This can only come from empowering local school communities to design their schools, giving them charter - like budget and staffing flexibility in hiring and staff reductions and then holding them accountable for performance, parent satisfaction and enrollment.

• Only 19 % supports the federal government holding schools accountable for what students learn, a major premise underlying both the Bush and Obama education policies.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

And the only way that the school district knows how to hold anybody accountable is how many mountains of paper they have turned in.»

We insist that «charter schools are public schools» not only as a means to advocate for equitable funding, but as a means to hold ourselves accountable for working in the public interest.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

Parents and educators alike have increasingly lashed out against the high number of standardized tests students must take, the high stakes attached to those test results, and the narrowed curriculum that occurs when schools are held accountable for students» test results in only two or three subjects.

If we don't try to find better answers than we have now and improve the ways we hold transfer schools accountable, we not only do a disservice to schools like BCHS that are branded failures when they are not, we also do a disservice to tens of thousands of students who need a school system that will stop failing them and start helping them.

But suppose the law held high schools accountable only for test scores?

Prior to the No Child Left Behind law, only a handful of states calculated these rates and held schools accountable for their performance.

Charter schools not only provide students and parents a choice, but more importantly, are held accountable for student achievement that ultimately leads to vast opportunities for students.

In the case of Options Charter School in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpSchool in Washington, D.C., an official with the District of Columbia charter school board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpschool board is accused not only of failing to hold the school accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpschool accountable but also of participating in a scheme that enriched others at the expense of students and taxpayers.

«Charter schools have traditionally been the only public schools that have been held accountable for their performance,» said Michigan Association of Public School Academies President Dan Quisenberry.

«Charter schools have traditionally been the only public schools that have been held accountable for their performance»

Only testing every child in every grade allows us to hold districts and schools and teachers accountable.

As such, charter schools operate under a much less stringent regulatory environment in which results matter but inputs do not — charter school leaders and teachers have the freedom to run their schools and classrooms as they see fit, and are held accountable only for their students» academic outcomes.

Proponents of charter schooling contend that this autonomy - for - accountability bargain leads to improved student achievement in individual charter schools by allowing schools the freedom to implement innovative practices and be held accountable only for their outputs.

We believe that our students» success has shown that alternative schools not only need to challenge their students to reach a high academic bar, but that they must also be held accountable for delivering results on par with public school systems.

Charter schools in Arizona are held accountable for their academic performance through an Academic Performance Framework created by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter sschools in Arizona are held accountable for their academic performance through an Academic Performance Framework created by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter sSchools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter schoolsschools.

As with Bredesen's Tennessee First to the Top Act, Johnston got lopsided votes for a Race - friendly bill he sponsored in February that not only ties student test scores back to teachers but also names the educational institutions that trained the teachers, so that education schools, too, would be held accountable.

Arizona Charter School Board does not provide oversight over charter spending Charter schools in Arizona are held accountable for their academic performance through an Academic Performance Framework created by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter sschools in Arizona are held accountable for their academic performance through an Academic Performance Framework created by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter sSchools, the only agency with oversight responsibility for charter schoolsschools.

We believe that not only charter schools, but all public schools should be held accountable.

In a criminal case, «the perpetrator is only going to be held accountable to the state, not the victim,» says Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School.