Outlines the objectives, process, and tasks of New York State's school-based comprehensive planning system, implemented to meet accountability demands and budgetary cutbacks. Process diagrams and sample forms are included. (SJL)

Article looked at the humorous side of budgeting with the accent on atmosphere and wry use of language. (RK)

Accountability based on reading scores will only demoralize teachers who are trying hard in disadvantaged schools. A better response to reading failure would include improved teacher training and placement, ability grouping, reduced class size, adequate specialist support, and kindergarten reading. PS 209 in Queens utilizes several of these…

Authors summarize the benefits to be derived from a comprehensive in-service program and include a recommended organizational chart. (Authors/SP)

Article deals with two issues concerned with accountability, first, the gathering of information about how instructionally effective a particular instructional system is, and the second deals with the use of that information in making instruction more effective. (Author/RK)

Author describes an action oriented guidance program at the high school wherein counselors, teachers, and students form a visible team offering assistance to students. (Editor)

Suggests that behavioral objectives and minimum competency testing can be effective for monitoring elementary students' mastery of basic skills, but to carry this system into the upper grades and other subject areas risks stultifying learning and inhibiting the free atmosphere that complex thinking and social education require. (SJL)

Describes developments in the state of South Carolina regarding school assessment and accountability. Outlines the mandates of South Carolina's Accountability Act of 1998 which focuses directly on "school accountability." (SR)