Sentences with phrase «still holding schools accountable»

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Unless you still believe in holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.

Wong and his colleagues make a solid, if still preliminary, case for shifting power away from school boards to a single, elected leader who can be held accountable to a citywide constituency.

In the 2016 PACE / USC Rossier poll of Californians that I led, we asked what schools should be held accountable for; voters rated standardized test results last among the options presented, but 69 percent of them still believed accountability for test results was important.

Most parents still hold their kids accountable for their efforts in school, but that effort is more visible in sports.

Standardized testing is still considered the most effective way of holding schools and systems accountable.

By giving teachers the freedom to innovate and try new ways to improve student achievement, public charter schools can be more responsive and create an environment tailored to the needs of individual students, while still being held more accountable for student learning.

In this age of mayoral control of school systems, mayors in other jurisdictions can choose a school superintendent and still be held accountable to the voters for that choice.

Does anyone still believe that Uncle Sam has the capacity or precision to hold 100,000 schools accountable for results?

Mike says that those opting out should be «held accountable against an alternative set of measures» that are nonetheless still outcomes - based and geared toward high school graduation and post-secondary readiness.

Public charter schools are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

Signed into law in 1994, Arizona's charter schools are public schools that are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

Charter schools are public schools that are innovative while still being held accountable for improved student achievement.

Although schools aren't being held accountable the first year, public opinion still believes teacher performance in the state counts.

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted that holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.

58 As Catharine MacKinnon argues in the pages of this Issue, these decisions have undermined efforts to hold schools accountable through the private right of action because schools can do very little and still satisfy the standard.59 As such, it is possible that this state of affairs further encourages individuals to seek relief from OCR, elevating the need for OCR to provide «effective protection» and decrease the time it takes to investigate claims.

When the California State Board of Education voted last week to once again delay holding schools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meeschools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meeSchools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meet them.

Why are we continuing to expand a voucher program that still has not policy in place to hold partner schools accountable?

ESSA still requires state - wide achievement testing at the same frequency as NCLB, but now states will be responsible for holding schools accountable.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

The No Child Left Behind Act was still around the corner, but a growing education reform movement, which insisted holding schools more accountable for student test scores would increase performance, had already pushed many states to expand standardized testing.

In today's political climate, we are proposing to hold teachers accountable for results while still not giving them much authority over their schools.

But in a state lauded for holding its education schools accountable, the quality of many local institutions still remains comparatively unknown.

«I saw 14 charter schools violating state law and I still to this day maintain that the Orleans Parish School Board should be held accountable for those charter schools [that it authorized] that were violating the election law,» he said.

Zanders, the lawyer for the plaintiff, Justice and Beyond, still maintains that the School Board should hold its charters accountable for breaking the law.

Charter schools offer unique educational opportunities but they are still held accountable for success.

They fear that the waiver will undermine the state's authority to hold schools accountable for student progress and tangle schools in still another layer of bureaucracy.

Like other public schools in Wisconsin, charter schools are still held accountable for students» academic performance and progress.

But there is so much right with that bill because it FINALLY brought to light that black and Hispanic kids are clearly still not getting the same educational experience as white students, even within the same schools, and it works to hold schools accountable for it.