Sentences with phrase «performance standards and accountability»

«We created performance standards and an accountability log for every administrative function in our company.

Working with business leaders over the years, I've noticed two big challenges to setting performance standards and accountability.

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«There's much more awareness now in poor and minority communities that they don't want their children hidden from performance standards and accountability,» Miller said.

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Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

To become a Certified B Corporation, startups must meet advanced standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency set by the non-profit organization, B Lab.

It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Navitas is B Corps certified, operating in accordance with rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

As a founding Canadian B Corporation, we've had our business audited to ensure we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Certified B Corporations meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.

As for the governor, he made no appearances yesterday, but issued yet another lengthy statement insisting he won't sign off on more state education aid unless the budget includes reforms that address «accountability, performance and standards.»

«And we now need to go further and faster to achieve greater accountability, better performance and higher standards in every part of the Home Office.&raqAnd we now need to go further and faster to achieve greater accountability, better performance and higher standards in every part of the Home Office.&raqand faster to achieve greater accountability, better performance and higher standards in every part of the Home Office.&raqand higher standards in every part of the Home Office.»

«Transparency, accountability, the truth and personal discipline are needed if we want to move Ghana into a higher level of performance and give our people the opportunity to enjoy a world - class standard of living in our lifetime,» he said.

A new set of performance standards could inject a higher degree of safety and accountability into the fracking industry.

This is a more general certification given to companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

However, the implementation of NCLB has perverted standards - based accountability by narrowing the curriculum, limiting the ways in which student performance is assessed, and constraining pedagogy.

Julian said: «Having worked at the centre of government, I know that the architects of England's school accountability system are motivated by the best of intentions: to expose serious under - performance and raise standards.

State and federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific standards of academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students.

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

Within the evolving standards and accountability movement, states (rather than the nation or school districts) have borne the responsibility to develop standards, tests linked to those standards, and a system of rewards and punishments for schools depending on their performance.

In fact, the modern accountability movement, right through to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, owes much to Shanker's relentless calls for higher standards, assessments, and consequences for poor performance.

New means of accountability, such as the Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Internet.

Education policy in the United States has long been dominated by the notion that the way to reform education is to set performance standards and establish a system of accountability.

Unfortunately, the performance of digital technology in the classroom proved disappointing early on, because its rapid influx into schools coincided with another dominant trend in U.S. public education: the national push for standards and accountability.

With an agenda that echoes our decade of investments — charter schools, performance pay for teachers, accountability, expanded learning time and national standards — the Obama administration is poised to cultivate and bring to fruition the seeds we and other reformers have planted.»

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

Almost every state is now instituting accountability systems to measure progress in standards - based reform, and almost every such system depends heavily on testing as an indicator of student or school performance.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

By accountability, we mean that every school or education provider - at least every one that accepts public dollars - should subscribe to a coherent set of rigorous, statewide academic standards, statewide assessments of student and school performance, and a statewide system of incentives and interventions tied to results.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

The state received a perfect score on school accountability, which includes reports on performance, performance management and replication, renewal standards, and default closure.

Second, it provided principals with increased responsibility and accountability of ensuring that tenured teachers met tenure performance standards.

WakeEd has previously advocated for creating a single accountability tool that meets the federal standards and fairly reports the performance of public schools across the state.

«Accountability is being clear on your performance goals and standards.

School performance measures are used just as much by officials to monitor standards and ultimately Progress 8 is an accountability measure.

Public accountability for school performance is necessary, and reporting it so anyone can understand it is the minimum standard.

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

We need to transform education into a true profession with standards for performance, metrics for measuring performance, and accountability that celebrates high performance and jettisons low performing teachers and administrators from the system.

We must also recognize that the accountability and performance measures for students in an RTC must be different from the standard since these students are not leading the «standard» lives.

Further, the standards under Texas» new Performance Framework (an additional system of standards for charter schools measuring the performance of a charter school, which are separate and apart from state accountability standards) must take into account the uniqueness of charter schools located within an RTC and truly measure according to the mission of Performance Framework (an additional system of standards for charter schools measuring the performance of a charter school, which are separate and apart from state accountability standards) must take into account the uniqueness of charter schools located within an RTC and truly measure according to the mission of performance of a charter school, which are separate and apart from state accountability standards) must take into account the uniqueness of charter schools located within an RTC and truly measure according to the mission of the school.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

In his report, Yeado writes that teachers are encountering a number of structural changes to their job, including the adoption of new academic standards, new state assessment exams, accountability metrics, and performance - based compensation in some districts.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), along with Assemblymember Juan Arámbula (I - Fresno), have introduced AB 1991, which would specify and raise accountability standards for student performance and outcomes in the state's charter schools.

increased capacity to improve the effectiveness of governing boards in line with the «Competency framework for governance» (particularly boards» ability to provide strategic leadership and data - driven accountability for educational standards and financial performance)

In addition, for any school to expand, the most recent rating for 90 percent of the campuses operated under the charter must be «met standard» under the standard accountability procedures and received a district rating of highest or second highest rating for three of the last five years with at least 75 percent of the campuses rated «met standard» and no campus with the lowest performance rating in the most recent state accountability ratings.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

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