Now principals have full control over the schools' budgets and are held accountable for performance.
They were holding Booker accountable for performance, just as he intended to hold teachers and principals accountable.
"We've got to remember we are hiring project people, project people that will be held accountable for performance.
"We've always been held accountable for performance, but he's ratcheted it up a couple of notches".
Rather than singling out charter schools, we should hold all schools accountable for performance and insist on transformation where there is failure.
As a health care and government consultant certified in both performance metrics and quality improvement, I believe that the proposed model will unfairly hold physicians accountable for performance factors outside their control.
The City Department of Homeless Services said yesterday that it was on or ahead of schedule on most of the central long-term initiatives introduced by the Bloomberg administration, like strengthening homeless prevention efforts and making the shelter system more accountable for performance.
By focusing on reforms that are best for pupils, and by virtue of being a Democrat, not interested in union-busting for its own sake, he has achieved a great deal for example, making teachers more accountable for performance and expanding charter schools.The unions, too, tread carefully.
In contrast, the overwhelming majority of pension funds nationwide — the ones for state and local governments as well as for corporations — follow a principle of "separation of powers": they have boards that advise the pension funds' executives and hold them accountable for performance.
"There are nearly 1,000 high schools where more than half of the students won't graduate — they're called 'dropout factories.' " Mr. Edwards later acknowledged that he had voted as a senator from North Carolina in 2001 for the No Child Left Behind Act, an overhaul of education policy championed by President Bush that increased standardized testing and held schools more accountable for performance.
