Sentences with phrase «worried about accountability»

Now, all the sudden, we're worried about accountability because low - income parents can choose them?

«You have to worry about accountability.

Get diversity in the boardroom and you won't have to worry about accountability cascading all the way down.»

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Somewhere here is a larger discussion about the thin line between useful accountability and overly worrying about the relatively small personal expenses that officeholders sometimes incur.

But it is the prospects for the local accountability offered by the press that many commentators worry about most — both in the UK and the US — if their financial decline continues.

Yes, the teachers» union has been successful in sowing a small backlash against accountability measures in communities that don't have to worry about unacceptably low student performance.

Conservatives love the concept of greater accountability but worry about creating a Big Brother government agency that would trample on privacy.

Some are both familiar and basically applicable, such as «set clear goals,» have checkpoints along the way to gauge (and control) student progress, worry a lot about teacher quality (principals, too), finance schools equitably, strike the right balance between autonomy and accountability, strive for a coherent «system,» etc..

Moreover, if states are worried about year - to - year fluctuations introducing noise into their accountability systems, they should be thinking about how to average over multiple years in order to increase the precision of their determinations.

«Structural» education reformers — the kind who worry about school governance, choice, standards, accountability, ESSA, universal pre-K, graduation rates, collective bargaining, etc. — have long been faulted by «inside the classroom» educators for neglecting pedagogy and curriculum.

Even Miller, who advocated accountability before it was cool, worries about states» being able to pay to fix the problems the test scores highlight.

Teacher unions and market - driven reformers have cheered these developments, but many civil rights groupsand accountability hawks worry about what a decreased federal role will mean for struggling students.

Reasons include evolving understanding of the principal's role as instructional leader, accountability pressures from states and the federal government, and worries about turnover and leadership shortages in high - needs schools.

I constantly worry about his academic needs — the school's curriculum, the lack of accountability within the classrooms, the poor quality of his teachers and the ongoing need for additional instruction time for his struggling classmates.

Teacher unions and market - driven reformers have cheered these developments, but many civil rights groups and accountability hawks worry about what a decreased federal role will mean for struggling students.

It also didn't woo Republicans like Seliger, who fear for rural district funding and worry about sending public money to private schools that aren't held to the same accountability standards.

We worry about their morale given the recent upgrades in course content and accountability.

As a primary school teacher I acknowledge the benefits of accountability for the education system, but worry on a personal level about its fair implementation.

To be concerned about «legal action» means that your speech is not free but if speech is free then to worry about ridicule or ostracization is to reject personal accountability for your words and makes you a coward.

I worried, then, about the loss of transparency and accountability that would result from requiring appellate judges, including those of the Supreme Court itself, to defer to trial - level fact - finding, including in the area of «legislative facts» consisting largely of complex social science evidence.

Some early childhood educators eschew teacher - directed lessons, believing that all teaching needs to be conducted in the context of child - initiated activities, and they worry about the effect of standards and accountability on early childhood education.