The executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, Robert Rader, said he has often heard talk of increasing parent accountability, but nothing as specific as what New Haven school officials have charted.
"I have always talked about trying to have parental accountability, because parents love their children.
Miles and miles of counseling to learn parenting-accountability so I would launch my children into the world as whole as possible.
Many parents welcomed the accountability system that the Houston district pioneered in the 1980's and early 1990's.
With calls by parents for tighter accountability placing schools across the country under intense scrutiny and pressure to improve student achievement, some school systems are pushing back.
Linda Shaffer, a parent of two children in San Francisco schools and a founder of Educate Our State, an advocacy group led by parents seeking more accountability, said, "The numbers tell me that there is a low bar to jump over, which doesn't tell me anything about the teachers in the classroom".
"We decided we had a moral responsibility to support our parents and demand accountability from the school," said Cudahy Mayor Jack Guerrero.
While a segment of the American population is currently calling for less government in their lives, Japanese parents are demanding accountability from elected officials regarding their children's safety and well-being.
Findings suggest that parents view CSA components that: (1) demonstrate respect for parents and (2) enhance accountability as being particularly effective and important elements of matched saving programs.
It supports the coalition government's free schools, which improve accountability and parent choice.
Such statistics have come under greater scrutiny as parents and politicians demand accountability from colleges.
