Sentences with phrase «school accountability bills before»

He is an organizer of a «Stop the Train» forum that will examine issues surrounding a pair of school accountability bills before the state Legislature from 6 - 9 p.m. Monday at Anderson Auditorium at Edgewood College.

In February, Walker told the State Journal editorial board that he hoped to sign a voucher school accountability bill before the budget was approved.

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State Superintendent Tony Evers said Tuesday night before Gov. Scott Walker's state of the state address that the Senate version of the school accountability bill was «on the right trajectory» in dealing with the constitutional issues raised by the Assembly version.

In that case, the teachers union urged lawmakers to defeat the bill because they said it would impose new accountability restrictions on local schools before they had a chance to fully implement the new accountability provisions of the Local Control Funding Formula.

(Calif.) Nine months after California's dustup with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan over accountability and the Common Core, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — seems to have decided California was right: States need more time to train teachers, prepare assessments and teach students in the new standards before schools can be held accountable.

So we have a lot of mixed messages in this state as far as schools that are identified as turnaround or transformation; we have a new accountability system that will label districts more rigorously than they've ever been labeled before so that puts added pressure and then with Senate Bill 191 that's going to hold teachers and principals to a higher degree of accountability around effectiveness and at the same time cutting the education funding to a drastic extent.