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Accountability Defined

Policies that hold districts, schools, or students responsible for their performance. School and district accountability often means rating schools or districts according to student performance, reporting on school or district performance, and rewarding and punishing schools or districts based on improvement over time. Student accountability refers to holding students responsible for their own performance by requiring them to pass a test to be promoted or to graduate.

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Mounds View School Board looks back at '08-'09, ahead to '09-'10

Published July 3, 2009, 11:51 pm, Mounds View Sun-Focus

The Mounds View School Board in its last meeting of the 2008-09 academic year affirmed the district's chief administrator, Dan Hoverman, as "a truly impressive individual and effective superintendent by any definition.

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Assembly passes revised mayoral control legislation

Published July 3, 2009, 11:26 pm, Queens Courier

The New York State Assembly on Wednesday, June 17 passed revised New York City school governance legislation that, if approved by the Senate and signed into law, would renew mayoral control of city public schools. The current governance law, enacted in 2002, is set to expire on June 30.

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Principal reassignment, music program, new assistant principals

Published July 3, 2009, 11:13 pm, Pensacola News Journal

Even though it's summer vacation, there are changes in several Santa Rosa County schools.

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MISD campuses improve on preliminary TAKS results

Published July 3, 2009, 11:02 pm, The Mesquite News

Several Mesquite ISD schools are poised to rank better in the state accountability ratings as a result of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, although the district as a whole is likely to remain at Academically Acceptable.

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Landmark education bill signed into law

Published July 3, 2009, 10:51 pm, Plano Courier

Recently, Gov. Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 4294. The landmark bill gives all Texas public schools more liberty in its decisions regarding money spent on textbooks.

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LISD to continue night school; board hears drug-testing update

Published July 3, 2009, 10:47 pm, The Colony Courier-Leader

The Lewisville ISD board of trustees voted Monday night to continue a night school program that school officials call successful.

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LEISD could have five Exemplary campuses for 2008-2009

Published July 3, 2009, 10:42 pm, The Little Elm Journal

The Little Elm ISD school board heard a report on accountability ratings from Robert Keener, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction at Monday's regular meeting.

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Budget stalls before deadline

Published July 3, 2009, 10:33 pm, The Daily Dispatch

PHOENIX — Efforts to enact a new state budget just a day before the deadline stalled Monday as some Republican lawmakers pushed to send Gov. Jan Brewer a spending plan she doesn’t like — and essentially dare her to veto it and shut down government.

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Project Forward shows how to improve district relations

Published July 3, 2009, 10:30 pm, The Beach Reporter

After more than eight months of research, the Project Forward committee revealed its guiding principles and recommendations for how to improve the Hermosa Beach City School District and its relations with residents.

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2 schools will have new principals

Published July 3, 2009, 9:31 pm, The Post and Courier

Two of Dorchester District 4's five schools will have new principals next year. Bernard Utsey, who has been assistant principal at Woodland High School for the past three years, has stepped up to the high school's top post. At St. George Middle School, Scott Thompson, former assistant principal at Laurens District 55 High School in Laurens, has taken the reins.

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  • Dirty poor people living in slime: Missionaries and American Idol : Greg Laden's Blog
  • USAspending.go v: "The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award: 1. the name of the entity receiving the award; 2. the amount of the award; 3. information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc; 4. the location of the entity receiving the award; 5. a unique identifier of the entity receiving the award. USAspending.go v, a re-launch of www.fedspendin g.org, provides this information to the public, as collected from federal agencies, in an easy to use website. The data is largely from sources: the Federal Procurement Data System, which contains information about federal contracts; and the Federal Assistance Award Data System, which contains information about federal financial assistance such as grants, loans, insurance, and direct subsidies like Social Security." ;
  • Texas Education Score Card: from educationsecto r.org
  • YouTube - "What Is a PAC-to-PAC Transfer?": This video includes a one-minute piece of animation that shows how PAC-to-PAC transfers work.
  • Natalie Bridgeman | Echoing Green
  • Wrong Tomorrow
  • Second SC congressman calls on Sanford to step down - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com: A down-the-line conservative who minds the state's many military interests on the Armed Services Committee, Wilson has been in Congress since winning a special election in 2001. Before that, he served for 17 years in the state Senate and did stints for South Carolina Republicans, including former Sen. Strom Thurmond. Wilson is a fairly cautious politician, often avoiding the bare-knuckled battles between Palmetto State Republicans. He avoided endorsing a presidential candidate last year until after his state's high-stakes primary, only then coming out for John McCain, who won both the state and Wilson's heavily-conser vative Lexington County base.
  • Economist Debates: Corporate responsibility
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  • BBC - Peston's Picks: Why bankers aren't worth it: Cracking. "But Sir Fred is just one embodiment of how banking became a casino run for the benefit of bank executives: the sucker punters were the shareholders and - little did we know it - taxpayers.&quo t;

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