Sentences with phrase «private school accountability measures»

Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counterparts.

Not exact matches

He viewed the Louisiana results as commentary on accountability as much as on vouchers, hypothesizing that it could have been the increased regulations and accountability measures, which affected both public schools and private schools receiving voucher students, that led to performance gains.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is flip - flopping just weeks after he said he would not support expansion of Wisconsin's statewide tax - subsidized private voucher school program unless accountability measures were in place.

Causing perhaps the greatest uproar over sending taxpayer dollars to private schools is the fact that the funds come with virtually no accountability measures attached.

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The state has currently $ 12 million of public money available for private schools with virtually no accountability measures in place to guarantee or even monitor the quality of education the children are receiving.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

DeVos» critics say that she opposes measures that increase transparency and accountability of charter schools and private school voucher programs.

Schools are measured as successes and failures using distant measurements that are absent any locally understood input, and then they are threatened until those measures rise — or the school is closed and frequently turned over to a private operator with absolutely no accountability to local democratic institutions.

But critics of the program say that the vouchers siphon funds away from the underfunded public school system and sends those tax dollars to private schools without accountability and transparency measures that ensure students are indeed getting a better education.

In fact, because of lack of accountability and necessary measures of progress, charter schools and other private voucher schools are less likely to provide students with complete school experiences that serve the students» needs.

It's a plan spurned by public school supporters who say taxpayer dollars are being diverted to mostly religious schools with weak accountability and non-discrimination measures in place, pointing to reports of LGBTQ discrimination in some private schools.