The phrase "accountable for school" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing responsibility related to a school, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The principal is accountable for school safety and student well-being."
Alternatives: "responsible for the school" or "answerable for the school".
Truancy courts, he said, would help by "holding children and their families accountable for school attendance".
In the same way, we should hold principals strictly accountable for school performance and allow them to make all personnel decisions.
Tim Knowles, the director of the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute, said, "He attacked the human-capital problem, and he got a lot of people and groups involved and accountable for school reform.
But since Mr. Levy was approved as interim chancellor on a 4-to-3 vote by the board, he has won over the board with his hands-on style of management, warning superintendents that he would hold them accountable for school performance while promoting a more intellectual climate in the school system's leadership.
Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton said it was important to go further and let the mayor appoint the schools chief because only then could the mayor be held fully accountable for the school system.
Critics have long argued that this leaves no one accountable for the school system, while supporters contend that it makes for a board free of political interference.
The campaign will focus on getting states to adopt rules that make failing charter schools close automatically, hold charter authorizers accountable for their schools' performance, and revamp their authorizing bodies so they become more professional.
Other key tasks include holding principals and superintendents accountable for their schools' performance, streamlining the bloated bureaucracy at 110 Livingston Street and repairing the city's crumbling and sometimes dangerous school buildings.
He was arrested because he tried to hold officials accountable for specific schools that collapsed".
"The idea that the mayor should control and be accountable for the schools is something that I strongly supported," he said.
To make principals more accountable for their schools, the Bloomberg administration is giving them more money and unprecedented authority over an array of decisions — from curriculum to spending to teacher training — that can make or break a school.
