It's very, very loyal without exacting much in terms of accountability.
She believed the grading terms of accountability were too stark, without meaningful context.
A report released last week by the Center for Public Integrity, which ranked Washington State third in terms of accountability, agreed.
But most African states still fall near the bottom of the heap in terms of accountability to their citizens.
Green was branded "a greedy, shameless woman who has no sense of what the public demands in terms of accountability" by Steve Hilton, a former senior advisor to David Cameron.
The goalposts keep being moved in terms of accountability and teachers who might potentially step up to headship fear that they would only last a few years.
"There are definite possible gains, in terms of lowered transaction costs, but there are some significant negatives, in terms of accountability and how to deal with anonymous users and how to regulate in the market.
"There's greater unpredictability, greater demands in terms of accountability and greater expectations with regard to who you manage," says Professor Peter McCaffery, deputy vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University and a higher education leadership analyst.
Yet it turns out that the individual school effect is much less here in the UK than in many other, often more successful and equitable countries which make lighter demands in terms of accountability.
Mensch, who attributed her win in what was a marginal Labour seat at the last election to local newspaper coverage, said that such community-level stories "held [MPs] feet to the fire" in terms of accountability.
