PPT Slide
Ensure accountability for federal dollars by preserving and enforcing the law's current trigger for school intervention: that schools receiving Title I funds make adequate yearly progress that results in continuous and substantial yearly improvement of each local educational agency and school sufficient to achieve the goal of all children served meeting the state's proficient and advanced levels of performance, particularly economically disadvantaged and limited-English proficient students;
Require states to develop accountability systems that trigger school improvement interventions if schools and local educational agencies are not on a path that ensures all students will meet the standards by 10 years from the date of enactment; and
Ensure that schools are held accountable for enabling all students to meet the standards in all of the subjects and grades in which the assessment is given.
While there are many other important issues regarding accountability, including, for example, inclusion of all students in assessments, language proficiency, rigor of cut-off scores for proficiency, and rates of progress for different groups of students, this paper only attempts to meet the purposes outlined above.