Sentences with phrase «under federal accountability»

This 2009 report, written by Dana Brinson and Lauren Morando Rhim for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, provides five brief profiles of schools that dramatically improved student performance and successfully restructured under federal accountability systems.

The board voted 8 - 1 July 9 to approve the requirement, which could be could be phased in for the state's nearly 490,000 8th graders as early as the 2009 - 10 school year if the plan passes muster under federal accountability standards.

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«Simply put,» Schneiderman wrote, under the current law «a defendant pardoned by the President for a serious Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.federal and state criminal law.»

Under the federal Health Information Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA, your teen's health records are between him and his health care provider.

In line with the change agenda of the federal government of Nigeria and the «Change Begins with Me Campaign», the Nigeria Police force under my leadership is ensuring accountability by ensuring that citizens and residents of the country have a unit through which all grievances against police actions and inactions are taken and redressed.

A Government Accountability Office report released Oct. 2 said Congress should require U.S. EPA to consider a wider range of environmental effects when deciding which fuels are eligible under the federal biofuels use mandate (E&EN ews PM, Oct. 2).

Likewise, in a September 3, 2003, column examining the differences between state and federal accountability systems, Winerip looked at North Carolina, where, he said, some schools that were doing just fine under the state's previous accountability system were now being flagged as needing improvement under NCLB.

As states grapple with designing new accountability systems under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (see «How Should States Design Their Accountability Saccountability systems under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (see «How Should States Design Their Accountability SAccountability Systems?»

[10] Federal guidance for accountability under ESSA touches on this topic, and is difficult to interpret definitively.

In 2010 — 11, 28 percent of K12 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind accountability law, compared to 52 percent of schools nationwide.

The Texas school accountability system implemented under then Governor George W. Bush served as a blueprint for the federal legislation he signed as president nearly a decade later.

States use subgroups for two purposes, with potentially two different minimum subgroup sizes, or n - sizes: reporting (school report cards available to the public online) and federal accountability (used in state calculations to determine which schools fall into particular categories under ESSA).

Before George W. Bush signed NCLB into law as president, Texas implemented a test - based accountability system in 1993 under Bush as governor that was similar to the subsequent federal NCLB law.

This issue can also be addressed by broadening the set of indicators against which schools are evaluated, which many states are poised to do under the new federal accountability law.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

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.»

But, under pressure from the federal government, most states tied the new assessments to accountability at a time when teachers» practice and local curriculum had not yet become fully aligned with new expectations.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

Just weeks before states release their lists of schools that have not met «adequate yearly progress» targets under the main federal K - 12 law, many states are still negotiating with federal officials over changes to their accountability plans designed to reduce those numbers.

All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2 - year - old experiment with «growth models,» which let states measure individual students» achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

That's in part because schools» accountability for the progress that English - learners make in learning the language is now integrated into Title I, the federal program under which the performance of all other students is scrutinized.

-LSB-...] written, I think the piece that might have had the greatest impact is an open letter I wrote on my personal blog about the design of accountability systems under the new federal education law.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

States are required to develop accountability plans under ESSA to receive their share of federal Title I funding.

The federal government is permitting many schools to escape accountability for the progress of racial or ethnic subgroups under the No Child Left Behind Act, according to a computer analysis released by the Associated Press last week.

In most cases, instructors — under added pressure from state and federal accountability regimes — end up focusing on pupils below the «proficient» line, at the expense of their high achievers.

States could have eviscerated their accountability systems, doing the bare minimum under the federal law by identifying their very worst schools, and staying mum about the other 90 or 95 percent.

Under the new federal school accountability law, ESSA, states and schools now have the ability to both widen the definition of school accountability and push towards improved school quality and student achievement.

That's the question the WashPo Answer Sheet blog's Valerie Strauss poses on the eve of a scheduled hearing in the U.S. House Education Committee on federal accountability standards under No Child Left Behind:

In the coming years, these skills will be a topic of conversation as states now have more freedom to create state accountability models under the recently passed federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

The DOE already reduced the number of state - mandated tests to the federal minimum during the 2015 - 16 school year, Kishimoto said, and it no longer ranks schools under its Strive HI school accountability system.

Not only is it state law, but it's required if Indiana wants to keep a federal waiver releasing it from strict accountability rules under No Child Left Behind.

North Carolina is developing a new school performance accountability plan to line up with the regulations created under the ESSA law, and DPI plans to submit its draft to the federal Department of Education in September for approval.

States» rights take precedent over the oversight, accountability, and protections for historically - under - served students embedded in federal education law.

New America Foundation released two policy papers that address using data on English Learners (EL) «in light of new flexibilities for setting EL outcomes, goals, and accountability metrics under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).»

«The grinding, two - year process of drafting accountability plans under ESSA has upended states» K - 12 political landscape and laid bare long - simmering factions among power brokers charged with putting the new federal education law into effect this school year,» writes Daarel Burnette II in Education Week.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

Learn about the changes in federal requirements under ESSA in assessments, accountability, professional development, and others, and how educators can influence the decisions about new state and local policies.

In order to be eligible for the TCEP grant, the charter school must be accredited, qualify as a «charter school» under the federal definition, and meet the following academic and financial accountability standards:

This is particularly true for the form of vouchers espoused by DeVos, in which recipient schools would face no accountability and could even force students to waive their civil rights under federal law.

Now, with responsibility for accountability largely in the hands of states under the updated federal education law, the question looms: Will California reinstate real accountability to protect its 6.2 million students who are overwhelmingly low - income and Spanish - speaking, or will it remain in the shadows?

Hyslop writes that under the new system, the choices individual states made about how to design an accountability system mattered less than the fact the federal government dictated states intervene in 15 percent of Title I schools.

As states transition from No Child Left Behind to using their new authority under ESSA, Anne Wicks and William McKenzie of the George W. Bush Institute write in The 74 that it is critical for all stakeholders — federal officials, advocacy organizations, and policymakers — provide proper oversight to make sure states «implement their plans with fidelity and support the education leaders who use accountability as a key tool to help all kids achieve.»

He directly supervised the Divisions of Talent, Performance, Information Technology and led education priorities including the development of a new comprehensive school accountability system under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.)

She said that she would re-assess implementation programs under the Every Student Succeeds Act that require states to set uniform accountability standards consistent with federal guardrails.

Her remarks came just weeks before states» first due date for submitting accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act that will guide state education policy and the distribution of millions of federal dollars to public schools in the coming years.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

The substitute amendment prohibits the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) from considering how many pupils enrolled in a school or school district have been excused from taking an examination required under state or federal law for purposes of the annual school and school district accountability report published by DPI.