Sentences with phrase «reliance on accountability»

Two other leading movements have been increased school choice and increased reliance on accountability systems.

Not exact matches

By approving this bill to eliminate the LLC loophole, we level the political playing field, help to create a campaign finance system that places a greater reliance on small donors and bring greater transparency and accountability to our elections,» added Heastie.

Broader deregulation efforts to form charter schools and create accountability systems have been slowed by such barriers as state lawmakers» reliance on mandates, equity questions, and the lack of credible...

For example, while accountability for financial matters can not be delegated, in the day to day financial management of the academy, the accounting officer will inevitably need to place reliance on the work of the chief financial officer (CFO) or lead finance professional.

It would make matters more difficult because the most important flaw of the No Child Left Behind accountability system is its reliance on the level of student achievement at a single point in time as a measure of school performance.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Over the past 20 years, the accountability movement's reliance on data to quantify student learning has transformed pedagogical practice and opened up educational practice to show the public how well students are achieving — or not achieving — in their public schools.

When they speak of «accountability,» what they really mean is a rigid reliance on standardized testing as both the means and the end of education.

One study suggests that the inappropriate reliance on high - stakes testing likely exacerbates the consistent problem of the exclusion of low achieving and special education students from state assessments used for school and district accountability.

In other words, many states are still moving forward, more specifically in terms of states» continued reliance on the use of value - added models (VAMs) for increased teacher accountability purposes, regardless of the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing.

A backlash to the federal government's reliance on local testing was taking hold, and Republicans who had previously supported more «accountability» — read: testing — now decried those same tests as government overreach.

While the platform has traditionally rejected reliance on performance tests, this year's platform specifically pledges to cease the «test - and - punish version of accountability» when holding states accountable to the...

There is a basic flaw in our current sanctions - based accountability system: its reliance on an end - of - year test.

This information can fill the need cited by many of the most vociferous critics of accountability schemes in education, who have railed against reliance on students» academic test performance as the sole criterion for judging school quality.

The gains against high - stakes accountability are real, but a new book cautions that ending the blind reliance on testing will take a lot more hard work.

But extensive evidence demonstrates that a reliance on financial intermediaries frequently results in deeply inadequate monitoring and transparency, poor development outcomes, compromised environmental and social standards and serious deficiencies in accountability to affected communities and other stakeholders.

A number of commentators have pointed to the increased reliance on networks and social norms to replicate or improve accountability, access and information in complex litigation.

The public bears some amount of accountability as to whether their reliance on communications by lawyers is reasonable.