Sentences with phrase «sig funds»

Once schools receive SIG funds, they will be able to begin to spend them immediately to turn around schools this fall.

In conjunction with Title I funds for school improvement, SIG funds are used to improve student achievement in Title I schools identified for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring so as to enable those schools to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) and exit improvement status.

«Although Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced some positive achievement findings for SIG - funded schools, at this point the unseen impact may be the improved environments for learning that SIG funds have helped create,» commented McMurrer.

All six schools were awarded 2010 SIG funds.

The department also released Awards 2011 — 2013 for School Improvement Fund (MS Excel), which provides information about which schools received SIG funds in 2010 — 11, 2011 — 12, and 2012 — 13, and which model each school used.

Using data from California schools that received SIG funds, this study found significant improvements in the test scores of schools on the «lowest - achieving» margin but not among schools on the «lack of progress» margin.

For example, one Cohort 5 school that has a high teacher turnover rate used SIG funds to recruit staff to the school and create a cadre of substitute teachers.

Most of the schools across the country that have received SIG funds are middle schools.

Prior to receiving SIG funds, educators, school administrators, and the local union were already collaborating, setting common goals and restructuring classroom instruction.

Fountain Square Academy will receive $ 1,112,147 in federal SIG funds and will adopt the transformational model.

When a school district applies, it must indicate that it will implement one of four school intervention models in each of its persistently lowest - achieving schools for which it receives SIG funds, based on school needs:

While the ever - expanding role of the U.S. Department of Education in state and local level matters remains a concern, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) acknowledges benefits of the proposed revisions to the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, extending the grant period from three to five years, and allowing local education agencies to use SIG funds to implement, in one or more SIG eligible schools, a state - determined intervention model.

Under the new state rules, districts interested in receiving SIG funds must submit an application to the California Department of Education.

A signature program of the Obama administration, the SIG funds are available to any local educational agency or charter that receives Title I money and meets a needs criteria established by the California State Board of Education three years ago.

Priority schools and school divisions receiving SIG funds for «Tier I» and «Tier II» schools must implement one of the following four USED intervention models in their persistently lowest achieving schools:

The Obama administration, illustratively, targeted $ 3.5 billion SIG funds to persistently lowest - achieving (PLA) schools, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009.

And worse, because of language in the recent omnibus budget, states and districts have the opportunity to implement even weaker interventions with SIG funds.

Until I see results that show that SIG worked, I won't change my prior belief that SIG funds would have been better spent on high - quality charter growth.

In Philadelphia, for example, which has experimented with outside management of schools for over a decade, the new SIG funding is helping to fuel difficult changes through the Renaissance Schools Initiative, which identifies chronically low - performing schools for both internal turnaround and overhaul by external organizations.

It is noticeable that the Department did not compare SIG results to other low - income schools or schools that applied for but didn't receive SIG funding.

But the study reported that schools just above the cutoff were undertaking improvement efforts without SIG funding.

The most notable finding is that there is very little difference between the goings - on of SIG schools and similarly low - performing schools that didn't receive SIG funding.

But schools that just miss the cutoff for SIG funding are also struggling, and replacing their principals would be a reasonable decision for district administrators trying to improve those schools.

What schools were doing to improve was not altered by SIG funding.

Another explanation is that districts were taking steps to reform all low - performing schools, ones above and below the SIG cutoffs, and simply used SIG funding to underwrite some of the costs of those steps.

To lure qualified educators, some districts, including Nevada's Clark County, spent SIG funding on signing bonuses to attract experienced teachers.

According to the new information, on average, two - thirds of schools that received SIG funding in the first possible year posted increases.

But Superintendent Glenda Ritz says her office is still trying to work out a discrepancy with the U.S. Department of Education over how much SIG funding Indiana will receive.

Washington is one of 13 states that will receive SIG funding.

GA: Unanswered questions, unknown obligations, unwanted firings; Albany board declines fed SIG funding.

Currently, CNCS programs have a presence in a quarter of schools eligible for SIG funding nationwide.

Maryland doled out more than $ 26 million in federal SIG funding to 22 schools over the past four years, state education officials said.

MI: No word from ED yet, but state announces federal approval of $ 119 million in SIG funding.

New Jersey is one of 13 states that will receive SIG funding.

With the support of SIG funding, «By the time the grant period is over, these changes will be embedded and become the new norm for our school, for our students and staff, and for our community.»

The report said 46 percent of schools in the first three cohort groups of SIG funding are not keeping pace with their peers with regard to achievement.

said Julie Kolobaric who was teaching 7th grade science and English at Thompson prior to becoming the school's coordinator of accelerated and extended learning — a SIG funded position.

On the heels of new information about how effective the U.S. Department of Education's controversial School Improvement Grant (SIG) program is, Secretary Duncan announced that nine states — Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania — will receive additional SIG funding to turn around more of their persistently lowest - achieving schools.

Maine's application for SIG funding, which is in progress, will include a «period of availability» waiver request.

Eleven schools in the city will use SIG funding for the Transformation model and a new performance pay plan.

If Maine is successful in receiving federal SIG funding this year, schools that are categorized as «priority» under the State's Title I accountability system would be eligible to apply for the grant and would be contacted with more detail to proceed.

This report looks at the results of a field study of the first - year implementation of those grants in Washington State, which will receive $ 50 million in SIG funding over three years.

Last year, the Department awarded $ 1.63 million in SIG funding to Washburn Elementary School.

Over the next two years, the initiative will flood the schools with leadership and staff training, art supplies, musical instruments, arts programs, and community arts events — and help them leverage SIG funding to support arts education.

How can SIG funding be used?

ScholarCentric's middle and high school materials, technology, and services align well with SIG funding in the following categories: implement research - based assessments and curriculum, provide job - embedded professional development, use data to differentiate instruction, establish early - warning systems, adopt response - to - intervention models, improve the transition from middle to high school, increase graduation rates, and extend learning time.

Not exact matches

Like many others, Juneau decided to look for additional funds beyond the federal money, particularly for a critical need not covered by the SIG grant: mental health issues.

The Trotter was in the first group of schools back in 2010 to receive the funding — called a School Improvement Grant (SIG)-- under the Obama administration.

As President Obama told students at SIG - funded Miami Central High School in 2011, money alone isn't going to do the job.

In total, this report is an important contribution because it suggests that SIG is failing both because turnarounds seldom work and because state processes for doling out funds have been unsound.