Responding to Mr. Gore's plan to hold local schools accountable for student performance, Mr. Bush derided the plan as "pretty shallow accountability".
Mr. Arum and Ms. Roksa call on trustees to hold administrators accountable for student learning.
Usually the chancellor, not the board president, is held accountable for student performance.
The state is relying ever more heavily on standardized exams to make schools accountable for student performance.
District, state and federal systems for holding schools accountable for student performance are supposed to operate as parallel systems.
The effort will have enormous consequences for the movement to hold schools and educators more accountable for student achievement.
Two of the charter school's main objectives, she said, are holding teachers accountable for student performance and enforcing parent involvement.
As David Leonhardt's article indicates, there is a tremendous amount of force behind the push to hold teachers accountable for student performance on state tests.
But in fact, a voucherlike proposal is an integral part of his plan to push public schools to be more accountable for student achievement.
But another national teachers union and a group that has supported the law's goals of holding schools accountable for student progress criticized the proposal.
In addition to this wobbly achievement data, there is little evidence that charter schools are being held more accountable for student achievement than are regular public schools.
