Sentences with phrase «shifting education accountability»

First off, Senator Ernst makes it known that she supports shifting education accountability to local or regional authorities.

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In 2002 the state legislature passed Act 88, shifting authorization of cybercharters from local districts to the state department of education and setting more rigorous requirements and accountability measures.

At the same time, she shepherded the state education department through a host of major policy shifts, from lowering class sizes to implementing a new accountability system and a controversial bilingual education law.

Paul Peterson interviews Robert Shapiro, an expert on public opinion, about how the partisan divide in education policy is shifting, as issues of school quality and accountability have produced «conflicted liberals,» at the same time that the presidential election is creating «conflicted conservatives.»

Patrick Wolf (see «Sisyphean Tasks «-RRB- has urged a shift from what he calls the «process» or «compliance» orientation of special education to an accountability regime that focuses on achievement gains.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in December 2015, shifted accountability authority downward to states and curtailed the role of the Secretary of Education.

ESSA provides a unique opportunity for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to chart a path for shifting key decisions related to accountability, school improvement, teacher quality, and funding back to the state and local level.

A new section on the U.S. Department of Education's website notes that the government is «currently rethinking its accountability system in order to shift the balance from a system focused primarily on compliance to one that puts more emphasis... on educational results and functional outcomes for children with disabilities.»

As our education system becomes more decentralized and complex, the locus of accountability should shift from government to parents.

In The Hill, former Congressman and chair of the House Education Committee, John Kline, discussed how ESSA shifts «education authority and accountability out of Washington and back to the states, where it belongEducation Committee, John Kline, discussed how ESSA shifts «education authority and accountability out of Washington and back to the states, where it belongeducation authority and accountability out of Washington and back to the states, where it belongs.»

With the pendulum poised to shift away from a narrow focus on high - stakes accountability and rigid standards toward a more balanced «systems» approach to increasing student achievement, school leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to become what education theorist and author Michael Fullan terms «motion leaders.»

Education World covered the release of a summary document from the Dept. of Education outlining how new ESSA regulations will shift accountability to the states.

They represent a major shift by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) from its original No Child Left Behind accountability approach for calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP).

Accountability and high - stakes testing ESSA represents a fundamental shift of authority over education from the federal government to the states.

The new accountability system shifts the student achievement focus from «passing» to «readiness» for higher education and the 21st century workplace, a major change from the previous system.

ASCD's work in this area is part of a large, multiyear plan to shift public dialogue about education from a focus on a narrow curriculum - centric and accountability system to a whole child approach that encompasses all factors required for successful student outcomes.

But perhaps the recommendation that offers the largest shift in the education space, and more broadly, public programs overall, is a call for greater accountability and governance models that focus attention on performance and reward meaningful action over political rhetoric.

ESSA will shift considerable responsibility for education policy and accountability from the federal government back to the states.

Washington Post is predicting school accountability debates will quickly take over the public education debates in all 50 states as the ESEA rewrite shifts responsibilities to the states.

This new report from the Education Commission of the States explores what «shifts are being made, and how are states incorporating a wider variety of school quality measurements,» provides «a national overview of current state accountability systems,» and «looks at the changes states are making in their ESSA plans.»

Recent efforts by states to make their educator accountability systems more rigorous represent a «seismic shift rarely seen in education,» according to the National...

The Office of Special Education Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disaEducation Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth withAccountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth withaccountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disaeducation and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disabilities.

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

,» examines current trends in special education that are likely to influence next steps for IDEA, including widespread use of tiered systems of support, the shift from regulatory compliance to results - driven accountability, and an increased focus on postschool transition planning.

Public education has shifted toward a system of accountability that holds students and the adults who teach them responsible for their academic progress.

The myth of the managerial expert is very damaging, because it shifts the education conversation away from important social issues like justice and equality to technocratic concerns like «accountability» and «efficiency.»

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said her appointment of a school commissioner for Birmingham was a welcome shift and broadly in line with proposals he had made jointly with the former education secretary David Blunkett for a localised tier of accountability responsible for driving up school standards.

Shifting the locus and mode of accountability is reshaping the landscape of education reform.

He clearly supports shifting educational accountability to local authorities; for instance, he went on record supporting DeVos and the predicted shift from «federal interference» in education.

Senator Shelby has expressed his support for shifting accountability for education to local and state governments when he said, «I am gravely concerned that the Department of Education has delayed the tough choices that are necessary to ensure economic national stabiliteducation to local and state governments when he said, «I am gravely concerned that the Department of Education has delayed the tough choices that are necessary to ensure economic national stabilitEducation has delayed the tough choices that are necessary to ensure economic national stability.»