Accountability Regime
2 nodes · event (ufo)
A named era of measuring schools and attaching consequences to the measurement — Ohio’s report
card system, No Child Left Behind, the Every Student Succeeds Act. An Event for the same reason
funding-regime is: it holds over an interval, is established and superseded by enactments, and
its boundaries are what make two figures comparable or not.
Deliberately parallel to funding-regime. Ohio has been changing how it pays schools and how it judges them on overlapping but non-coincident schedules, and the two histories are usually told separately. Modeling them as sibling classes on one time axis is what lets a reader ask whether a district was being judged by one system while funded by another — which, through the whole Fair School Funding Plan phase-in, it was.
A regime is distinct from the interventions on its ladder: the regime says what is measured and who is identified, the intervention says what then happens.
Nodes
| Every Student Succeeds Act | The federal accountability regime, which in Ohio identifies schools by rank-ordering Ohio's own report card rather than any federal measure. Identification is building-level, so a change to the state rating propagates into federal consequences without a federal act. |
|---|---|
| Ohio School Report Card | Ohio's rating system for schools and districts, and the substrate the rest of the state's accountability runs on. One number carries three consequences: federal identification, the academic distress trigger, and the funding formula's performance supplement. |
Properties
What a accountability regime may carry.
| Property | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Name | string | The regime's common name |
| Level | string, one of state, federal | Whose law establishes the regime and attaches its consequences |
| Authority | string | The statute or federal act establishing it |
| What it measures | text | What is measured, on what scale, and at what unit |
| How schools are identified | text | How schools or districts are selected for consequence, including thresholds |
| In effect | text | The period it governs, and what it superseded |
Relationships
The edges this class may enter into. Out is declared by the node itself; in is declared by the node at the other end.
| Relationship | To | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Established by out | Legislation | The enactment that created the regime |
| Measures out | Metric | A measure the regime rates schools on |
| Replaces out | Accountability Regime | The regime this one superseded |
| Administered by out | Institutional Actor | The body that operates it |
| Runs alongside out | Funding Regime | A funding regime in force over an overlapping period |