And this is the key point: it is not about dropping school accountability altogether, but about making sure it does not obstruct teaching and learning.
So report cards offer a real opportunity for improved school accountability.
The general secretary of the NASUWT teachers' union, Chris Keates, said the national curriculum had been undermined for far too long by the "punitive" school accountability regime based on performance tables and Ofsted inspections.
Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty and Cory Booker and many other advocates of school choice and accountability are liberals (though one wonders about Rhee).
Indeed, there are many, many different ways we could improve education in this country that go beyond the twin-solutions of school choice and accountability.
The new governing body must create a clear accountability between school management, governors and trustees.
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The problem, I think, comes because we can not provide local monopolies like school districts freedom without accountability.
While there is less talk about putting money into new programs, there is an emphasis on accountability and school choice.
Charter school proponents say increased accountability -- as well as the freedom to innovate -- gives them an edge over traditional public schools.
Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg called for greater scrutiny, oversight and local accountability "to ensure school standards improve and the taxpayer gets value for money".
My Education Accountability Act will require every school district receiving federal help to take the following five steps.
Only through accountability--and an underperforming school's losing money--will all children get the education they deserve.
But over the next two decades the school system shifted from high autonomy and low accountability to the very reverse: low autonomy and high accountability.
Accountability has been the driving force behind school improvement since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in early 2002 on a vote of 87-10 in the Senate and 381-41 in the House.
Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate accountability and financial reporting.
From the perspective that includes best practices for urban school districts, the legislation has to be reauthorized without softening accountability measures.
But accountability is likely to remain a big part of school reform.
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Accountability measures for schools are also going to change - and school leaders are welcoming this.
They say switching a school to Academy status puts public assets into private ownership, reduces local accountability, allows private sponsors to dictate areas of the curriculum and threatens union representation.
They oppose education tax credits, school vouchers, charter schools, merit pay, and virtually all attempts to impose real accountability.
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Now we must work together to increase accountability, add flexibility for States and districts, reduce the number of high school dropouts, and provide extra help for struggling schools.
C. school district, and we've insisted on reform, and we've insisted on accountability.
Yet looking at the sorry state public schools are in now, maybe seeing kids leave in droves via vouchers will force school administrators and teachers to stop thinking they have all the answers and allow for innovation and full accountability, from the classroom to the boardroom.
What accountability measures are in place when you have one, two, three or four children leaving that school to go to a better school?
"What we were constantly told by people that we talked to was, while accountability was desirable, the way it currently operated in some ways provided an unfair snapshot of a school's performance, " he said.
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