Sentences with phrase «essa also»

ESSA also clarifies the term «school leader» as the principal or assistant principal in the school building — an important and much - needed distinction to avoid confusion with other school district administrators.

In addition to allowing states flexibility in how they measure student success, ESSA also allows districts to use a «nationally recognized» high school test such as the SAT or ACT in place of the state's high school exam.

ESSA also requires states to use standardized assessments to measure ELs» development of English language proficiency (ELP).

ESSA also provides more flexibility for Title I funds which may benefit charter schools.

ESSA also requires states to set long - term goals for ELs and measure their interim progress towards those goals.

ESSA also provides states with more flexibility for intervening in low - performing schools.

However, ESSA also allows states to seek a cap waiver from the U.S. secretary of education.

But ESSA also creates a pilot program allowing up to seven states to experiment with local assessments that could eventually be used statewide.73 As under NCLB, test results must be disaggregated and reported at the school level and by student subgroups, such as racial and ethnic groups, students designated as economically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities.

ESSA also allows states to include the results of former ELLs in the ELL subgroup for up to four years after a student ceases to be identified as an ELL.

ESSA also requires states to publicly report results for all of these groups, as well as additional student groups — including male and female students, students who are in foster care, migrant students, and homeless students.

ESSA also requires states to collect and report more nuanced data about school performance and school context, such as chronic absenteeism rates and per - pupil funding amounts.

ESSA also requires states to identify schools that are in need of comprehensive support and improvement; this includes any high school for which the graduation rate is under 67 percent.62 Those schools must implement evidence - based interventions and supports, which could incorporate some of the principles of high school redesign discussed throughout this brief.

In addition to the typical four - year graduation rate, ESSA also gives states the option of including extended - year graduation rates that accommodate students who take longer to complete high school.

ESSA also opens the door for other forms of assessment instead of a snapshot test score.

ESSA also marks an important move toward a more holistic approach to accountability by encouraging multiple measures of school and student success.

ESSA also offers several opportunities for increased support for community school work.

ESSA also consolidated many Title IV programs such as Safe and Drug - Free Schools and Counseling Programs into a single block grant.

ESSA also supports state and school system innovation to make changes that ensure student success as a whole.

ESSA also creates opportunities for parents to engage with their child's school, help schools improve, and hold them accountable for meeting the needs of all students.

ESSA also requires that states get input from a range of stakeholders on these systems and on proposed ESSA policies as they develop their plans for ESSA implementation.

ESSA also requires states to report chronic absence data and allows federal spending on training to reduce absenteeism.

The ESSA also authorizes a pilot program that would allow a handful of states to develop innovative assessment systems, which could include performance assessments and competency - based assessments.

ESSA also contains other funding streams for longer school days, including through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, and the newly authorized Promise Neighborhoods and Full - Service Community Schools programs under Title IV.

The ESSA also eliminates the requirement of states to adopt Common Core Standards, which opens the door to implementing alternative standards nationwide.

ESSA also reauthorized the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP), authorizing increased competitive grant funding for magnet schools to $ 4.1 million by 2020.

ESSA also allows states to set aside funds for leadership development.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

ESSA also means that, from Washington's standpoint, Common Core is now a non-issue.

Wraparound services will get a boost — hopefully for the sake of learning ESSA also presents a chance for states to double down on wraparound services that support whole child health and well - being.

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to measure «progress in achieving English language proficiency, as defined by the State.»

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

ESSA also gave state leaders significantly more autonomy to set policy on other questions, such as teacher evaluation, diminishing the federal government's influence over state policy.

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Not exact matches

«Boards are accountable to local voters, superintendents are accountable to their local boards and the community at large, and there also is already going to be this increased scrutiny of building allocations because of ESSA.»

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

The authors also offer one recommendation to the Department of Education, which is finalizing its ESSA regulations: Going forward, Washington should allow states to rate academic achievement using a performance index that gives schools additional credit for getting students to an advanced level.

Most of our ESSA competition participants also wanted states to be able to count the ELL indicator much more for schools with lots of ELLs than those with relatively few.

Also in this issue, a look at how ESSA's new era of accountability could make or break century - old K — 12 accreditation agencies and a Q&A with former New Mexico Secretary of Education Hanna Skandera.

If California wants to simply identify underperforming schools on the state's dashboard, as its accountability plan suggests, or if Arizona wants to allow schools to use any standardized test that fits their needs rather than a statewide test, as ESSA's pilot option also allows, DOE should move out of the way of these state laboratories.

(That's likely to change, however, as GOP lawmakers this month also used the same tactic to repeal rules interpreting ESSA's teacher preparation provisions, as well as others pertaining to non-education issues.)

Legislation and bully pulpit aside, the Trump team faces plenty of opportunities on the regulatory and de-regulatory front, not just in sanely implementing programs like ESSA and IDEA without constraining state flexibility but also — especially — in the civil rights realm.

Along the way, they've also become risk - averse and are therefore unlikely to wager the approval of their ESSA plans, arduously crafted over many months, on a policy that may prove ephemeral.

• I'm no fan of NCLB and was a strong proponent of the ESSA approach to re-empowering states — and in principle I still am — but I also now find myself in a policy role (state board) in a deep - blue state (Maryland) where almost all the K — 12 education shots are ultimately called by what Bill Bennett used to call «the blob,» i.e., adult interests that crave more for themselves but don't otherwise want to disturb the education status quo.

It's also why Colorado Senator Michael Bennet tried to strengthen the «comparability» provisions of the new ESSA law so districts would be required to spend equal dollar amounts on poor students before federal funds were added.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

States, with their newfound freedom of action under ESSA, might also press their districts to fix the problem and amend collective bargaining laws so equity for students trumps seniority for teachers.

This webinar offers practical tips for companies, and also explores how changes in the new federal law, ESSA, will change the research standards for school providers.