If this is another accountability measure for schools to rank them, then it will be counter-productive.

He also said that he wanted to improve accountability measures for charter schools.

Right on cue, these states are pressing Congress to suspend the new standards and accountability measures - until full financing is made available.

"I don't buy that because we've been pushing a number of accountability measures for years and the Legislature has shunned them," he said.

Every good restructuring deal has these types of accountability measures in place.

So as more freedoms are granted to individual schools, government will, for some schools, give up two of its three accountability measures.

Item in matrix format to collect information on accountability measures used by the institution, and scores.

Funds will be targeted to areas of greatest need and must be spent according to strict accountability measures.

Appropriations could be based on school performance or other undefined accountability measures.

Yet for some time polls have found the public receptive to greater state influence and stronger state-led accountability measures.