Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly a quarter-century ago, educators and policymakers developed an accountability system for public education built around ...

A cup of pencils sit on top of a classroom desk in Virginia (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury) The Virginia Board of Education took another step on Friday to clarify how schools will be rated and ...

The task force's purpose is to design a new theory of action and design principles for the accountability system.

When something is not working, change it. The Virginia Board of Education is proposing that kind of transformative change for its new accountability framework, by splitting up the state’s ...

The Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday approved the final touches on the state’s Every Student Succeeds Act plan, designed to address concerns with how schools were rated and student performance ...

The state Board of Education’s conversation this week about a new accountability system raised multiple questions, including how to define academic growth at the high school level, how much chronic ...

Oregon is building a new education accountability system, and it’s pretty complicated. With 197 school districts, numerous charter schools, and other educational settings like the Oregon School for ...

Accreditation and accountability are two distinct processes with different goals, yet the distinction between them is sometimes lost among educators. Accountability systems in most states capture a ...

Jason Bedrick is a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy. For decades, American education reformers have promised that technocratic accountability systems would ...

LAFAYETTE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — School leaders, students and city leaders were able to talk with state officials about the 2025-2026 new accountability system going into effect during a tour of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - On Tuesday, June 11, a committee for the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) unanimously endorsed a new accountability system that would apply to all ...