Accountability is fundamental to quality authorizing. Without it, we run the risk of not seeing the full educational picture in front of us and threaten our ability as educators and education advocates to ensure learning and attainment for all our students.

With student outcomes across the country still showing lackluster post-pandemic outcomes, it’s more important than ever that education decision makers, advocates, and practitioners seek to learn from each other.

In this piece, featured in The 74, NACSA President and CEO, M. Karega Rausch shares some of the best practices he’s observed from strong authorizers and the lessons that can be learned from them.