Sentences with phrase «tougher system of accountability»

They want a tougher system of accountability, and I think a reformed electoral system would help deliver that.»

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In a conversation with me, Paul Tough talks about how children (really) succeed and the implications of his work as California designs a new accountability system.

In Ontario, Canada, one of the great PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) success stories, the current provincial administration took over from one that had instituted a province - wide curriculum and matching assessments, along with a tough accountability system.

And it's why many of us have supported «top down» accountability efforts over the past twenty years — to put pressure on school systems to put the needs of kids first and to make the tough decisions they might otherwise avoid.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

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.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

During the 1994 reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which ultimately forced the states to begin developing their accountability systems, Shanker was a staunch proponent of tough standards, and penned a pivotal article blasting a proposal to water down the bill.

Although the threat of a lawsuit should not deter states from developing rigorous standards and tough but fair accountability systems, it should serve as a warning to states...

It protects a system in which kids are assigned to schools, the district retains power irrespective of performance, light - touch interventions pass for change, tough accountability is muted, old rules and contracts are preserved, and new operators and approaches are stymied.

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

As Matthew Ladner of the Foundation for Excellence in Education noted recently, parents are often tougher graders than state accountability systems.

On Wednesday, she said the strict accountability system was putting teachers off working in the toughest schools, adding that the two «crucial» objectives of transparency and school improvement needed to «marry up» better, particularly in regions that had the most struggling schools.

But to some school reformers, Ritz is subtly backing away from what was supposed to be a tough new system of accountability, possibly squandering a chance to greatly improve teaching in the state.

Some evidence suggests that this pressure, coupled with the reality of operating a school or district on a limited budget, meant educators often began to focus more time on those tested subjects at the expense of others, like social studies, science, and the arts — a logical response to the incentives created by the accountability system and tough budget choices.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.