Sentences with phrase «over accountability systems»

We're going into a new era where states have more authority over accountability systems.

We're moving into the era where states are going to have more authority over accountability systems.

It's looking extremely likely that by January, states will find themselves with a whole lot more discretion over their accountability systems, interventions in low - performing schools, teacher evaluations, and much else.

Not exact matches

Mr. Flaherty's emphasis on accountability is important because one of the major weaknesses of regulatory structures as they exist now is a lack of clarity over who's responsible for safeguarding the entire system, something officials call «macroprudential regulation.»

New York's accountability system has evolved over the years by changes in standards, scoring and how tests are administered.

They should have focused more on increasing the accountability of the executive to parliament and how elected lords would strengthen parliament's position in a system where there are too few «checks and balances» over what governments can get away with.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

Mayors were required to fund an organization over which they had no control, which encouraged them to send as little money as possible, and there was little accountability in the system.

Both Cuomo and Lhota have said the mayor shares in accountability over the subway system.

Our fight is not yet over to end insider trading in Congress and demand more accountability in our political system, to make our food supply safe for American families, and fix the trade policies that have left our local manufacturers competing on an unlevel playing field.

Over pay, pensions, force numbers and, most recently, the system of local police accountability, the two are often on opposite sides of the argument.

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).

The review is an important part of the Government's efforts to provide greater independent oversight over Commonwealth school funding and deliver increased transparency and accountability to the system, Mr Birmingham said.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

In Ontario, Canada, one of the great PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) success stories, the current provincial administration took over from one that had instituted a province - wide curriculum and matching assessments, along with a tough accountability system.

And it's why many of us have supported «top down» accountability efforts over the past twenty years — to put pressure on school systems to put the needs of kids first and to make the tough decisions they might otherwise avoid.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

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.

That's not surprising; these accountability systems, like No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002, pushed schools to get more students over a low performance bar.

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?

Perhaps it is time for central government to yield some of the control over standards and accountability that it has amassed in the last 30 years in exchange for the opportunity for districts and schools to innovate around what students are taught and how the actors in the system are held accountable.

But it stands to be a significant improvement over the system we have now, combining top - down accountability with the energizing, bottom - up forces of choice and competition to put a premium on performance and to drive out much of the complacency that has for so long been the norm in American education.

This is where Bush sees the advantages of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top over Title I. «The first, he points out, «didn't dictate an accountability system, just that states had to have one.

If we are ever to restore local control and public accountability to America's education system, the College Board's recent power grab must be a central component of the debate over Common Core.

The Council of Chief State School Officers has worked with several partners over the past few years on recommendations for those CCR measures best suited for state accountability systems.

Moreover, if states are worried about year - to - year fluctuations introducing noise into their accountability systems, they should be thinking about how to average over multiple years in order to increase the precision of their determinations.

Over time, such accountability systems included ever - stronger incentives to motivate school administrators, teachers, and students to perform better.

Following over a decade of strong federal accountability structures, states are now embarking on the creation of new state - designed accountability systems, possibly featuring very different strategies from recent years and from each other.

Over the past decade, taxpayers have spent considerable sums to develop existing state accountability systems:

The Quality Single Accountability System (QSAC), which is the state's way of monitoring schools, gives the state the power to take over a district.

As innovative assessments are administered and used for accountability and reporting in participating schools, states in the demonstration authority can apply lessons learned from implementation to improve their innovative systems and take these projects to scale, building a new statewide assessment system over 5 years - one that is high - quality, fair, and worth taking.

As states redesign their school accountability systems under ESSA, there is disagreement over the best way to measure and communicate school performance.

The 2005 legislative session was relatively quiet on the subject of K - 12 education, despite tension over changes to the state's school accountability system between Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican, and the Colorado legislature, which was controlled for the first time in 40 years by Democrats

Rather than provide states and districts with more control over their accountability and improvement systems, as Congress intends, the side effects of the CRA can actually impinge on these efforts.

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

Given ongoing disagreement over the purpose of schooling, it's always going to be a challenge devising accountability systems that are sustainable and broadly supported.

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

That the publicized school grades have a direct effect on respondent ratings over and above the relationship between ratings and the underlying point variables suggests that the signals provided by the state's school accountability system do in fact affect citizen perceptions of their local schools.

Regardless of the circumstances, our society and our accountability systems celebrate timeliness over perseverance.

(Calif.) Confronted with a host of new policies and conditions created by a wholesale restructuring of the school testing and accountability system, local educational agencies submitted 416 waiver applications last year — a 30 percent increase over 2016.

«The topic of principal evaluations has largely been ignored in the current debate over evaluations, but teachers want to see principals lead by example and that is why we need an evaluation system that not only will help principals improve, but also increase accountability and ensure that teachers are fully supported.

A lot of change has happened in California public education over the last decade, from standards - based instruction to funding formulas to local control and accountability to scorecards and systems of support.

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.

Callen: Poll shows Mississippians want school choice Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

There are also growing disputes among reformers over the role of for - profit companies, and what type of regulation and accountability a choice - based system really needs.