What is the current status of Washingtons accountability system?
A. Washington is planning accountability requirements that ask schools to take seriously their progress toward reaching standards – but it is proceeding slowly and carefully. Washington has set goals for improvement for reading and math – asking every school to make progress from its own starting point (not compared to other schools with different students) – and appropriated funds to expand the state’s capacity to assist schools with large numbers of students not meeting state standards. Decisions about what should be done at the state level about schools that continue to have large numbers of students who do not meet state standards and are not showing signs of improvement despite extra help have yet to be made.
