Sentence examples for held schools from inspiring English sources

This reversal came about because Bush measured results, held schools accountable, and exposed them to competition.

If it does not pass, or a second vote is not held, schools must adopt a contingency budget with no growth in the district's tax total.

"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.

Besides increasing funding for schools, it mandated high performance measures and held schools accountable for meeting them.

"We've set high standards, created strong academic interventions for struggling students, held schools responsible for results, and given educators the tools they need to assess how well they're doing and how well students are progressing".

Many have called this approach a more severe extension of former President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind policy, which for the first time, held schools accountable for their students' performance on standardized tests.

* As a boarder at Marlborough school, Catherine held school records for high jump and long jump.

Another contributing factor may be the commonly held school activities to raise awareness of health, usually initiated by Japanese primary school nurses.

After his college career, he held school records for completion percentage, touchdowns, passing yards, total offense and completions.

Hold schools accountable for results.

We must hold schools accountable.