Sentences with phrase «sig program»

However, beginning in FY2017 states must reserve the greater of: 7 % of Title I: Part A funds or the amount the state reserved under Title I - A for school improvement in FY2016 plus the amount the state received under the SIG program for school improvement.

So, even though the SIG program is eliminated, states will now be able to use a larger share of Title I funding for the same purpose, with overall Title I funding increasing as well.

The SIG program provides states with funds to transform persistently low - performing schools with the goal of substantially raising student achievement.

The report had three components, with each exploring one of these issues in depth, and comes amid a flurry of speculation about the effectiveness of the SIG program.

That's because the turnaround principles included in ESEA Flexibility build on the administration's revision of the existing SIG program in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package.

Extended learning time is one of the key elements of the federal government's SIG program.

«The Obama administration publicly revealed the SIG program's colossal failure on January 18, 2017, just hours before President Obama's appointees departed.

In its draft guidance for the program, the department proposed expanding the school turnaround options for districts with underperforming schools to include three new strategies — a state - developed intervention, evidence - based whole school reform, and an early learning intervention — in addition to the four existing strategies in the SIG program.

The awards are from the $ 535 million designated for the SIG program in the FY11 budget, and they range from Illinois's $ 23.6 million to North Dakota's $ 1.2 million.

Although rigorous evaluation of the national SIG program is still underway, existing research offers key lessons about what methods are most effective when turning around low - performing schools.

In the meantime, the department has released more details on the preliminary results of the SIG program's first year based on data from 700 of the 830 schools that participated:

In comparing data from the first cohort of SIG schools to the most recent one, cohort 5, (completed at least one year of SIG implementation,) we feel that the SIG program is more successful.

The funds are part of $ 546 million available to states for the SIG program in fiscal year 2010.

Dating to the 1960s, the SIG program was redesigned under President Barack Obama and bolstered with $ 3.5 billion.

This school also receives support through the Department's SIG program.

Funding that isn't released will go back into the state's SIG program and awarded to other schools, he said.

Only schools included on a list of the state's 5 percent, lowest performing schools are eligible for the SIG program - a list that was released earlier this spring.

Officials also note that participation in the SIG program is voluntary.

In conjunction with the SIG program, ESSA requires states «identify and support...

Unlike the national SIG program, students enrolled in SIG schools in Massachusetts on average saw improvements equivalent to an extra year of learning after one year.

California's SIG program ran into problems three years ago when federal auditors discovered that many early participating schools were not spending the money.

A collaborative reporting project drawing on the efforts of more than 20 news organizations and affiliated journalists paints a mixed picture of how the SIG program is playing out on the ground.

What's more likely than new legislation, I'd suspect, is heightened scrutiny of Obama initiatives in K - 12 and higher education, including things like the results of the SIG program and the administration's treatment of for - profit colleges.

Both California studies point to positive effects of the SIG program in that state, providing evidence that targeted programs aimed at improving low - performing schools can be successful at a relatively large scale.

The SIG program may seem large because it spent $ 7 billion, but that amount is modest compared to school finance reforms in even one large state.

(And as Congress limps toward reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, political support for continuing the SIG program is ebbing.)

The largest - scale study of the SIG program, using a sample of 190 SIG schools from 60 districts in 22 states assessed the effects of the reforms using a plausible technique for distinguishing cause, but in practice, the estimates from this study were too imprecise to distinguish whether the SIG schools nationally had a similar effect to the ones in California or had no effect at all.

So that's good news for the SIG program, right?

Although the SIG program is eliminated, states will now be able to use a larger share of Title I funding for the same purpose, with overall Title I funding increasing as well.

So while the SIG program disappears in law, funding for its functions effectively remains intact.

The Washington Post has quoted Smarick in virtually every article it has written about the SIG program.

For example, the SIG program was written such that SEA had no power to tell districts which of the four «turnaround» models to use (and of course, most districts then chose the weakest models).

Andy Smarick has argued repeatedly on the Ed Next blog that the SIG program is a failure and should be abandoned.

Not exact matches

John Klebes, business development program manager at Sig Sauer, the Exeter, N.H. gun maker, has his eye on the Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, a $ 200 digital pen with built in microphone, speaker, display screen and tiny camera.

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

But in Sec. 1003, School Improvement (the program replacing SIG), states must allocate at least 95 percent of these reserved funds to districts.

The School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, initiated at the same time and distributing just about the same amount of money, turned up just 37 mentions.

• The administration promotes its «most mature» programs: RTT, i3, SIG, TIF, and Promise Neighborhoods.

The city announced in June, prior to the appellate ruling, that it was going to «transform» 11 of the district's schools and dramatically overhaul or close 23 others under a $ 300 million federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

(They've executed numerous SIG - related «Friday afternoon trash dumps» in an attempt to minimize the field's attention to this failed — and massively expensive — program.)

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

I just hope someone, someone, in the Department is saying, «If we find ourselves continually dumping bad SIG news, shouldn't we just admit we messed up and ask Congress to end this program?»

The latest study of the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program appears to confirm Smarick's view, which he declared with chest - beating glee in a post on the EdNext blog.

We also know that, given the four options allowed under SIG, 73 percent of the 1400 schools in the program chose the easiest and least aggressive «transformation» option, which required replacing the principal but none of the staff.

In 2009, the Obama Administration created the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program as a stand - alone initiative funded primarily through more than $ 3 billion provided through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), often referred to as the stimulus package.

On October 28, 2010, ED issued final program requirements for the School Improvement Grants (SIG)(75 FR 66363).

For the past six years, Dr. Orr has co-chaired the national UCEA / TEA - SIG Taskforce on Evaluating Leadership Preparation Programs.

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Education's independent research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), released a preliminary but highly informative report on the School Improvement Grant program (SIG).

The U.S. Department of Education has just released its final evaluation of the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.