Sentences with phrase «weakens state accountability»
Chairman Alexander's bill — the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act — largely cuts back on the federal role in public education and weakens state accountability to raise achievement and close achievement gaps.
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I just received an email from the Houston ISD School Health Advisory Council on which I sit, alerting me to the fact that the Texas state legislature is presently considering a wide - ranging school accountability bill (HB400) which will weaken... [Continue reading]
Since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) pegs its accountability mechanism to state test results, rather than NAEP, there is a natural incentive for states to maintain or even weaken their already - low standards.
Responsibility for schools often falls to multiple parties, including school districts, charter school authorizers, and state agencies, weakening accountability and making it difficult for leaders to address the challenges facing parents.
The move to ditch AYP and the underlying goal of forcing states and districts to take responsibility for how they educate poor and minority kids, the administration weakens the decade of strong reform efforts which the law's accountability provisions helped usher — including the very initiatives Obama and Duncan have pushed under their watch.
Giving state funding to schools the state does not run, she worries, would weaken the «public» side of accountability.
And, LFT has repeatedly tried to weaken the state's accountability system... Read More
As Dropout Nation has reported ad nauseam over the past four years, the administration has engaged in an exercise of shoddy policymaking that has damaged systemic reform by encouraging traditionalists in states such as Texas and California to weaken and ditch accountability altogether.
Tragically, many states and the federal government are going in the other direction, weakening accountability systems that were set up to protect children at risk, enabling a retreat from high standards, and allowing states and districts to maintain inequitable funding formulas.
To those of us in the reform movement, this is particularly disappointing, because we fear that there will be a correlation between these results and the recent trend toward the weakening of the state's commitment to leadership in standards and accountability - based reform.