States are permitted to focus on the worst 15 percent of schools, leaving most
without effective accountability.
Not exact matches
We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available,
without sacrificing
accountability for the
effective education of every child.
«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the
effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts
without the very transparency and
accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.
«All that we ask,» said New York official Ira Schwartz, «is that we be given sufficient flexibility so that we can meet the spirit of No Child Left Behind
without having to dismantle what we think is, and what has been judged by others to be, a very
effective system of standards, assessment, and
accountability.»
«With
accountability and assessments, we can't have valid assessments
without standards to align the assessments to, and we've made a real push to make sure we have highly - qualified,
effective teachers in our classrooms as well,» Spradlin says.
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.