Sentences with phrase «overhaul school accountability measures»

To give this event some perspective, this rally comes on the heels of a decision in Wisconsin where the teacher union is outright refusing to represent their members on a taskforce with the Governor and other policymaker to overhaul school accountability measures.

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Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

As part of a statewide overhaul of the school accountability system, the California State Board of Education has included chronic absenteeism as one of the measures for judging school and student success.