Sentences with phrase «states hold schools accountable»

The new federal education law demands that states hold schools accountable for at least one nonacademic outcome, so these kinds of tests are going to become more common nationally.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

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Zellnor, a product of public schools, would like to fight to hold the state accountable and demand that our schools be adequately funded.

The new school governance law passed by the state Legislature this summer gives parents and UFT members new tools to hold the DOE accountable and to have input into policy at the central and school levels.

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).

They are calling on the governor to hold Success Academy, and by extension all charter schools, accountable by supporting a state Assembly proposal to create a code of conduct for charters and to have schools provide annual discipline reports.

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«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Now, it's up to citizens across the state to hold the commission accountable and encourage its members to recommend real reforms to elevate the teaching profession and improve the quality of our public schools.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

After an analysis of potential workers» compensation claims in sedentary environments across several states, Drexel University's Natalie Pedersen, JD, an assistant professor of legal studies in the LeBow College of Business, and Lisa Eisenberg, JD, a graduate of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and current judicial clerk, claim employers should be held accountable because it will force them to reduce such harms in their work environments.

The report's preface promises to hold states accountable for preserving private school autonomy:

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.

For a decade now, federal policy has required states to measure graduation rates uniformly, to set ambitious goals for raising those rates, and to hold high schools accountable for meeting such goals.

Jennifer O'Day: A lot of my work is with low - performing schools, specifically, looking at federal and state policies and programs that assist and hold accountable low - performing schools.

For the first time, states receiving federal K - 12 education funding would be required to hold districts and schools accountable for the achievement...

Adequate yearly progress (AYP) is the measure by which schools, districts, and states are held accountable for student performance under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held accountable for student outcomes.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

The merit award program enhances the state's ability to hold schools accountable for student achievement.

Our teachers are unionized, and our schools take and are held accountable to the New York State tests.

But choice works only if choice systems are equitable, schools are held accountable by the state or school district, and parents are given readily understandable information about school quality.

I know that states need to hold schools accountable in some way....

A report from the Southern Regional Education Board recommends steps for policymakers to take in the interest of ensuring that charter schools in their states are being held accountable for improving student achievement.

It took another authorization and a clear signal from the Bush administration that the federal government was serious about accountability in order for the states to come up with plans to hold their own schools and districts accountable.

But with states in the accountability driver's seat, I could persuade myself that the time has come for at least some foresighted states to set subject matter targets and hold schools accountable for meeting them.

Some states in the United States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (states in the United States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

Consequently, school administrators and educators are being held accountable for student achievement on state - mandated assessments, now more than ever, through the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM).

Florida is one state looking to hold parents more accountable for their child's performance in school.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

• State - level TFA executive directors are held accountable for raising their entire operating budgets (schools pay the corps members» salaries).

Meanwhile, some states proposed, and in some cases were approved for, wholesale departures from efforts to hold schools accountable.

That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

Now, wherever you stand on the state of testing in education, the reality of your classroom at present is that this data is being collected and it is being used to hold the schools accountable for their work.

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

Most taxpayers in Ohio and Wisconsin support and favor expanding voucher programs in their states that involve private schools, but believe those schools should be held accountable to the public, a new report concludes.

Resistance to making standards consequential: When Common Core and the aligned assessments were launched in 2010, states were also busy adopting ambitious new teacher evaluation systems and refashioning the ways in which they held local schools and districts accountable.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Most researchers say the biggest factor was that in the late 1990s, states began to implement policies holding schools accountable for improving education for children.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

Rather than a case of federal overreach, the CRDC allows the federal government to empower state and local education providers to improve their policies and provides parents, policymakers, and advocates the tools to hold schools accountable.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

As Texas's Criss Cloudt put it, «I'm hoping [federal officials] will find some ways to give... states greater flexibility, particularly those that have a demonstrated track record of holding schools accountable.»

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.