Sentences with phrase «strong system of accountability»

North Carolina has worked long and hard at achieving for our local public schools a strong system of accountability and transparency.

Smrekar says Hoosiers on both sides of the debate put their trust into former mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat, to create a strong system of accountability in Indianapolis.

Not exact matches

But you can't have leadership, let alone a successful business, without strong management of and thus accountability to processes and systems.

A buddy can create support and a strong accountability system and it can also be a lot of fun.

Fourthly and most importantly for me, FPTP, unlike any system of PR, maintains the constituency link, which reinforces accountability and maintains a strong personal link between voters and their elected representatives.

But they have a far stronger track record on using contrived political rows to strip away systems of accountability.

New York, NY - On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have strong local authorities working in partnership with schools under a devolved system of local accountability.

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

On Wednesday, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. along with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo outlined a Five Borough Broadband Bill of Rights to improve Internet speeds across the City, create stronger oversight and accountability and ensure greater community involvement in the proposal to create a free public WiFi system across New York City.

The authors argue not only for more resources, but for an integrated national health care system, built around a strong public primary care system with a clearly defined supportive role for the private and indigenous sectors, that (i) addresses acute as well as chronic health care needs; (ii) offers choice of care that is rational, accessible, and of good quality, (iii) is cashless at the point of service delivery, and (iv) is governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure accountability.

Another examination of NAEP scores in Texas, which I conducted, showed that NAEP improvements were exceptionally strong in Texas while the TAAS accountability system was in place.

But for proponents of accountability, it's just as easy to hold up these educators as an example of why strong objective systems are needed to oversee and measure educators» performance.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

The bonus program was implemented alongside a new citywide accountability system that provided strong incentives to improve student achievement, regardless of whether a school was participating in the bonus program.

The state also has most of the features of a strong accountability system.

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It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

In a series of important posts, Jay Greene made a strong case against accountability systems that lean too heavily on test scores.

Progress in Massachusetts is also no doubt attributable in part to the state's strong system of student accountability, including a universal graduation requirement pegged to the 10th grade statewide test - a provision missing from the NCLB mandate.

For instance, states with higher percentages of certified teachers may also have strong accountability systems that focus their schools on student achievement.

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

Following over a decade of strong federal accountability structures, states are now embarking on the creation of new state - designed accountability systems, possibly featuring very different strategies from recent years and from each other.

The only truly strong defense of legislative decisions is having a focus on outcomes — developing a strong accountability system, introducing incentives for higher performance, developing reliable teacher evaluation systems, and the like.

But states find it difficult to gain consensus on a coherent set of substantial and ambitious academic standards, to align their tests with those standards, and to get strong accountability systems working.

Probably the strongest argument against using growth models as the centerpiece of accountability systems is that they don't expect «enough» growth, especially for poor kids and kids of color.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

And, the report is written in the hope that the state will step up and design a strong, new era accountability system that partners effectively with local districts to ensure schools deliver on the promise of educational opportunity for English Learners.

One key opportunity under ESSA is that seven states will be able to pilot new systems of assessment and accountability that, if designed well, have the potential to support strong, teacher - led practices that integrate teaching, learning, and assessment.

One of the challenges is that just rating schools, identifying who is doing well or not, is not enough for a strong accountability system.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

The Tennessee State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) engaged parents, community leaders and clergy in advocating to insure that there is a strong accountability in Tennessee's education system.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

Location: Statewide Priority: Strong Accountability Systems Topic: TULA training, advocacy and leadership on ESSA Summary: The Knoxville Urban League will develop a materials, content, and training on ESSA for all four of their affiliates in Tennessee.

«It is clear that your members have strong views on this subject and professional buy - in is important in the success of any accountability system.»

Long one of the strongest advocates for testing and accountability, Ravitch reversed her position in her influential book The Death and Life of the Great American School System, which laid the groundwork for her current book.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

While the rudimentary, one - size - fits - all approach of Adequate Yearly Progress has largely failed to produce the promised returns of increased achievement and opportunity, there still must be a reasonable framework and indicators that ensure the various state accountability systems provide clear, strong, consistent and effective models.

By empowering parents with high - quality public school options, challenging students to meet high standards, and grounding the system with strong accountability at every level, New Orleans has become a model of reform for the nation.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Critics noting charter schools that are «poorly regulated,» «without effective oversight,» or «lacking strong accountability» simply highlight a reality facing any publicly funded system of education.

Finally, the paper outlines eight system - level characteristics of a high - quality CTE program, including: career - oriented educational systems; strong options for all students; rigorous academic curricula; rigorous technical skill development; employability skills; professional development for teaching staff and leaders; support services for students; and assessment / accountability.

Mr. Hogan has fashioned a sensible plan to free charters from unnecessary bureaucracy while still leaving in place a strong system of oversight to ensure quality and accountability.

ESSA maintains a strong focus on accountability and requires all states to have in place systems of accountability and supports that include annual accountability determinations for all public schools based on multiple indicators for the school overall and for certain subgroups of students.

Grades would go up because of evidence of strong outcomes not captured by the state accountability system; grades would go down because of evidence of unhealthy curricular narrowing.

Other policies, such as implementing strong performance management systems, strong standards for charter school renewal, regular evaluations of schools, and high operating standards and transparency for authorizers, can also help to support an environment of strong accountability.

Otherwise, the Vice President for Ohio policy and advocacy for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute — a strong supporter of value added — is quoted as saying that «it makes sense to review the measurement... There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there, and the more people know, the more people will understand the important role looking at student growth plays in the accountability system.»

This pattern of stronger progress for low achievers rather than for high achievers is associated with the introduction of accountability systems in general — and not with NCLB in particular.