Sentences with phrase «real accountability for»

Thus, the Act does not provide real accountability for the promises of sustainability.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

And there is an obvious structural hurdle facing the insurgents: like all unions, teachers» unions exist to protect their members, creating a natural conflict between, say, maintaining job security for everyone and implementing measures that differentiate based on performance or create real accountability for results.

«But there is a tough love message from voters: they value and trust teachers and want them to have more resources, but they also want real accountability for student outcomes.»

We could credibly say to schools in the districts, «We are evaluating our people just as you are evaluating your people, with the same level of seriousness, and with real accountability for people who work here.»

This all sounds like real accountability for results.

Whether the administration can maintain real accountability for all schools remains to be seen.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

Add to that that there is absolutely NO real accountability for a midwife in the form of peer review, loss of privileges, or malpractice insurance, and you have a very volatile situation where well - meaning parents - to - be are left with no recourse when a birth goes horribly wrong at the hands of an incompetent midwife.

This legally questionable action risks escalating further, as US defence secretary James Mattis has admitted, an already devastating conflict and therefore makes real accountability for war crimes and use of chemical weapons less, not more likely.»

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But this time there has been a mad rush to the «transparency and accountability» altar and because of a Senate spending scandal and a $ 90,000 payoff we may be heading to the type of real change so many, including this newspaper, have pushed for over the years.

For too many blacks, dedication to the cause of reform has been allowed to supplant the demand for individual accountability; race, and the historic crimes associated with it — real crimFor too many blacks, dedication to the cause of reform has been allowed to supplant the demand for individual accountability; race, and the historic crimes associated with it — real crimfor individual accountability; race, and the historic crimes associated with it — real crimes!

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

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Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

Above all we believe that fairness, accountability and a real choice for voters should not be compromised.

We are proud to join this campaign for greater accountability of NYCHA, and to help push for increased state investment in public housing to ensure that long overdue repairs finally get made,» said Maritza Silva - Farrell of the Real Affordability for All Coalition.

It will call for real courage and real accountability, but it must be job No. 1.

«It is important that the DOE take real steps to address student safety, including accountability and training for staff and taking real input from students and parents.»

«But one thing we can say for sure, body cameras are one of the ways to create a real sense of transparency and accountability.

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It is simple repetitive habits, practicing exercise regularly and consistently so you don't burn out on it, practicing eating whole, real foods every day — with room for life to happen and some deviation occasionally when you choose it — it is accountability and taking responsibility to keep going every day and making it as much a part of your LIFESTYLE as brushing your teeth and reading your kids a bed time story.

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I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

Given the accountability pressures in schools, we worry that this development could reduce the experience of practical work for students, particularly if the separate mark for this element is viewed as less important than the A-level grade, a real worry.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

We eventually hit upon what turned out to be The Big Question — the one that ultimately brought about «Pacts Americana,» the report we're releasing today: Does the education world have some kind of time - tested system — something could be brought to bear on ESEA reauthorization — for combining real accountability with real autonomy?

Students can't improve or become managers of their own learning without constant, real - time assessment and feedback, referred to in PBL instruction as assessment for learning, as opposed to assessment for school, district, or classroom accountability.

This is certainly true of the accountability movement in California, which has a tortured history of reform and retrenchment that for years left the state with no real measure of how its students were performing.

I think not, at least not through top - down reform strategies that emphasize uniform school practices, and certainly not as long as the real pressure for performance and accountability centers on reading and math.

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But from a standpoint of their being responsible, both of them check their own grades on a regular basis, so it's a real accountability thing for them too, and I'm really pleased with that, that I'm not going in and being the heavy all the time.»

When the option was to strengthen charter schools with real accountability, she fought for no accountability.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

Provide real development and accountability for teachers: Ensure that all teachers have access to constructive feedback, and that students are not stuck in classrooms where little learning goes on.

But, here's the real rub for those of us who still hold on to quaint notions like that old autonomy - accountability thing: you can't just mess around with one side of an equation.

That's why it is not enough to prepare them in a «regulation first» system that shields real accountability and just hopes for the best.

Accountability is for «the little people,» as real estate queen Leona Helmsley once said about paying taxes.

«However, the report fails to grasp that the real reason for the loss of these activities is the high stakes accountability based on pupils» outcomes in tests and examinations which is narrowing the curriculum and the opportunities available to children and young people, and which teachers and school leaders have long been warning is a serious problem.

In 2012, the frustrations and hopes of a nationally representative sample of school counselors and administrators reflect the central message of this report: although counselors and administrators believe in the college and career readiness mission of counselors, a lack of focus, training, accountability, and resources for counselors stands in the way of real progress.

Cut a new deal: in exchange for real accountability we'll give you real authority.»

It isn't just another accountability or regulatory program; it's a real opportunity for schools and teachers to create a more well - rounded climate for learning and to enhance how and what students learn.

Over-testing students is a real thing across the U.S., according to Scott Norton, strategic initiative director for Standards, Assessment and Accountability at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), who discussed the purpose of state and local assessment programs at Tuesday's meeting of the new state Mastery Examination Committee.

Now, with responsibility for accountability largely in the hands of states under the updated federal education law, the question looms: Will California reinstate real accountability to protect its 6.2 million students who are overwhelmingly low - income and Spanish - speaking, or will it remain in the shadows?

In addition to meeting ESSA accountability requirements, the inclusion of chronic absence in state accountability rubrics also provides real opportunities for states, districts and philanthropists to achieve the goals of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, to increase the number of children from low - income families reading proficiently at the end of third grade.

For high standards in all schools we need real local accountability and oversight.