Under the new
federal school accountability law, ESSA, states and schools now have the ability to both widen the definition of school accountability and push towards improved school quality and student achievement.
Indianapolis Public School leaders have been pushing back against the state Department of Education announced 2 weeks ago its intentions to take over of six of the district's schools under
Indiana school accountability laws.
Bennett told StateImpact after meeting Wednesday that he has no desire to slow down his push for
more school accountability laws, even after state takeovers this year.
The feds may have given Indiana a pass from a widely -
criticized school accountability law less than a month ago, but its state - level replacement is so far proving no less controversial.
The Commission on No Child Left Behind is a private, bipartisan panel formed to study the federal
school accountability law and recommend to Congress changes for the law's 2007 reauthorization.
Notable gains were made, as Eric Hanushek points out in his provocative analysis of the benefits of
the school accountability law.
Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida announced a plan last week to improve middle schools, in what some observers say may be the largest change so far in the state's 1999
school accountability law.
The scandal contributed to the passage of a tighter charter -
school accountability law that took effect in the state last year.
The mayor's office says The Project School will likely receive its second straight F under the state's
school accountability law, PL 221.
an operations and instructional audit, as described in
the school accountability law, for each school selected,
«Wisconsin and all of the states in the country are putting their ESSA plans together,» said DeVos, referring to the Every Student Succeeds Act,
a school accountability law.