Sentences with phrase «passed school accountability laws»

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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).

A bipartisan Congress passed the federal accountability law, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which required every school to release information on student performance in grades three through eight and again in high school.

Passed in 1991, the state's «accountability» law grants individual schools significant policymaking and operating discretion.

After years of wrangling in Michigan, the Republican - led state was finally able to pass a law that added some of the needed accountability and oversight provisions for the state's charter schools.

The law, passed as a part of the budget bill last summer, provides little in the way of accountability for private schools while reducing funds for public education at a time when schools are seeing sharp reductions in funding over a years - long period.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

The qualifying states may also ask to be allowed to replace the No Child law's pass - fail school report card system with accountability systems of their own design, and for new flexibility in using an estimated $ 1 billion of federal education money.

Passed in 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, gives states the responsibility to ensure schools and districts meet the new guidelines and demonstrate accountability with funds used in association with the new law.

As the anniversary of the law's enactment passed quietly Friday, an occasion Bush marked throughout his presidency as a domestic policy milestone, the regimen of standardized testing and school accountability remains intact.

Over the last several years, Delaware passed and implemented significant authorizer quality and school accountability reforms through law, regulation, and changes in practices.

It is time to stop opening new charter schools until stronger laws are passed to ensure transparency and accountability for charters and the companies that manage them.

The feds may have given Indiana a pass from a widely - criticized school accountability law less than a month ago, but its state - level replacement is so far proving no less controversial.