Sentences with phrase «without standards and accountability»

«Anyone who talks about charters and choice without standards and accountability is misguided.»

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«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Americans can't conceive that there are «health care professionals» who are allowed to practice without any education, any standards, any outside monitoring, any insurance, and, finally, any accountability.

Because the settlement allowed Harran to avoid criminal penalties, the landmark case that many had hoped would set a new standard for accountability in labs across the country ended without settling the legal question of whether the lab chief has personal responsibility for the safety of students and workers.

During the 1990s, the policy term was «opportunity to learn standards»; the political formula was that «spending without accountability is a waste of money, and accountability without spending is a waste of time.»

«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.»

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

This past May, Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY wrote an editorial about Bill de Blasio's plans for the city's «failure factories,» which she alleges «have made little progress under this mayor's leadership» and continue to operate without appropriate standards and accountability.

They have to respond to misguided efforts at accountability, and (Common Core) learning standards forced upon them without curricula designed to enable students to master the standards.

«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.

If House Bill 1637 is enacted, public funds would be used to send students to private schools — which are only approved by the Department of Education for attendance and not curriculum, without the same accountability standards as the public schools — violating the requirements of state law and the state Constitution.

A more measured approach, as seen in Kentucky, could have helped build educator support and buy - in and could have improved the process without the fear that comes with instant accountability for a previously unused standard.

But because we know, without a doubt, that family poverty exerts a crushing influence over children's lives, it is no small thing when standards - and - accountability education reformers repeat, ad nauseam, that poverty can be totally «overcome» by dedicated teachers.

I think the teachers, the parents... have become so frustrated with standardization, and with top - down accountability and being told what to do without being given the resources to do it, and having testing before teaching, that they've gotten so frustrated that they just don't trust the transition to standards anymore.

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Without more specific curricula or adequate guidance and resources to translate the curriculum frameworks into curricula, state standards and accountability only served to frustrate new teachers.