Sentences with phrase «policies holding schools accountable»

Most researchers say the biggest factor was that in the late 1990s, states began to implement policies holding schools accountable for improving education for children.

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The new school governance law passed by the state Legislature this summer gives parents and UFT members new tools to hold the DOE accountable and to have input into policy at the central and school levels.

«It's time they be held accountable for their enrollment, discipline and special education policies like every public school is.»

But in the absence of policies that hold high schools accountable for the remediation rates of their graduates, it's hard to imagine they'll have much incentive to change.

For a decade now, federal policy has required states to measure graduation rates uniformly, to set ambitious goals for raising those rates, and to hold high schools accountable for meeting such goals.

Jennifer O'Day: A lot of my work is with low - performing schools, specifically, looking at federal and state policies and programs that assist and hold accountable low - performing schools.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

The pattern of differences across schools, across and within school districts, argues for enacting school accountability policies that hold schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

The solution is to have dollars follow students and free up individual schools to spend dollars in the way that they decide makes the most sense and to hold them accountable for student outcomes, but this requires significant changes in policy and regulation.

Two policy factors turn out to matter considerably more: a larger private - education sector (which presumably introduces more competition into the educational system) and the presence of a centralized examination system (which presumably holds students and schools accountable).

Rather than a case of federal overreach, the CRDC allows the federal government to empower state and local education providers to improve their policies and provides parents, policymakers, and advocates the tools to hold schools accountable.

The White House holds that these proposals mark a «sea - change» in national education policy — «for the first time holding states and school districts accountable for progress and rewarding them for results.»

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

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

20 The DCL further contained the most thorough details to date of schools» specific obligations to combat gender - based violence and harassment.21 With the issuance of this letter, OCR signaled that the government would initiate a more aggressive enforcement policy to hold schools accountable for Title IX violations.

Under the Obama administration's education policies, thousands of elementary and secondary schools are being held accountable for the academic performance of students who had been «invisible» under No Child Left Behind, the Bush - era federal education law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) creates a long - term stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.

The United States saw an increase in retention with the introductions of education policies that hold schools accountable for student performance in ways that harm students.

Why are we continuing to expand a voucher program that still has not policy in place to hold partner schools accountable?

While we can tinker with policies and review enrollment forms, until we ensure that charter schools are prepared to offer quality programs and held accountable for failing to provide quality programs, we will most likely continue to see increasing numbers of OCR investigations and corrective action plans.

To produce results, it is important to learn from the past as we engage citizens, develop public policy and promote truly accountable schooling (see «From «Dropping Out» to «Holding On» — Seven Lessons from Texas,» by Robledo Montecel).

While the district says the policies are needed to hold charter schools accountable, a coalition of charter leaders say the rules unduly limit the autonomy afforded charter schools under state law and their ability to offer a high - quality education.

Charter schools» boards of directors would be required to set policy for reviewing applicants» criminal histories and would be held accountable for gross negligence in the event that they do not adhere to this standard.

Chris Minnich, executive director, Council of Chief State School Officers: «Congress must reauthorize ESEA this year to create a long - term, stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.»

«What charters have done is to create a more educated consumer,» says Kathleen Boyle Dalen, director of education policy development for the Learning Exchange, an education consulting organization in Kansas City, Mo. «Parents are beginning to weigh their options and holding schools accountable.»

With the plans now defined by the states, schools and districts rely on their State Education Policy to specify how key topics are defined (including chronic absence) and how these policies will be carried out — and how states will hold schools accountable.

If those results hold up, Deasy would maintain a fragile majority in support of his policies, which emphasize holding teachers more accountable for student achievement in the nation's second - largest school district.

Those policy makers have been pursuing a «Test - and - Punish» policy primarily relying on tests as a way of holding schools and teachers accountable and using threats to pressure schools.

This book chapter highlights key limitations of current policies in public education that seek to hold schools accountable for performance without attending to the knowledge and skills needed for improvement.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

Use these step - by - step tools to help your team implement supportive, inclusive discipline policies that hold students accountable and improve school climate and safety.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

[1] And along with all other students, they are included in standards - based reforms — policies that hold their schools and teachers accountable for what they do or do not learn.

Policy makers should resist being seduced by achievement scores and, instead, hold charter schools accountable and aligned with the long - standing purpose of public schools.

Although the impact of poverty certainly should be acknowledged, some of the challenges of high - poverty schools — less - qualified teachers, staff turnover, fewer resources, or limited access to advanced coursework — are the consequence of policy decisions for which local and state officials should be held accountable.

Politicians and policy experts have long debated how and whether to hold schools accountable for what students learn.

And as they build their own customized policies for holding districts, schools, and teachers accountable to student outcomes, who is holding SDEs accountable to supporting and making the right decisions for the people they serve?

And since most education policy doesn't impact the children of Congresspersons (they are much more likely to attend private schools or public schools who haven't been sanctioned under Federal education policy than the children of the average voting American) it's a place where Congress can show America that they know how to work together without being held accountable for anything.

We must change the underlying policy environment in which schools and educators operate, the mechanisms through which our schools are funded and the way we hold schools accountable for the progress of their students.

One common impetus to change faced by almost all educational leaders in the United States is the extensive set of state policies designed to hold schools more accountable (Leithwood, 2001).

Heavily testing students and relying on their scores in order to hold schools — and in some cases teachers — accountable has become the norm in education policy.

Moving forward, Jewell says he believes all public school advocates will begin holding state leaders accountable for their policies, and not just on May 16th.

«There's been difficulties in implementing the Common Core over a whole host of existing educational policies for holding teachers, students and schools accountable,» said Carlson.

They would probably hit upon education policies along similar lines, requiring that schools be held more accountable for what their students are, and are not, learning.

While leaders and elected officials trumpet the importance of family, current policies and practices at the federal, state, district and school levels rarely provide sufficient support to teachers or to parents, nor is anyone held accountable for comprehensively and consistently engaging a diverse range of families.