Sentences with phrase «yearly progress accountability»

After all, as I have noted, the Obama administration's waiver gambit does what Sen. Tom Harkin (who chairs the committee) and onetime reformer and former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander (along with traditionalists such as the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers) have wanted to do for a while: Eviscerate the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions that have spurred a decade of reforms that have led to more kids escaping poverty and prison without having to explain themselves before the public.

One of the major arguments advanced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Obama administration for ditching No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions was that it was penalizing far too many schools arbitrarily for failing to improve student achievement.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

From where he sits, setting ambitious and aspirational targets as was done in the past decade under the No Child Left Behind Act — including through its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability and aspirational 100 percent proficiency targets — will do little to spur reform because doing so will «lose credibility with the very people expected to make it succeed — the educators.»

Earlier this month, Dropout Nation mentioned the dismay among the Civil Rights faction of the school reform movement over the Obama administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions.

The Obama administration just can't any relief from the headaches it has caused itself with its effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress accountability measures.

From where Washington State politicians and Petrilli sit, the Obama Administration's decision is «punishing schools and educators» because the state will now have to fall back on No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provision, as well as the aspirational provision that states must ensure that all kids are proficient in reading, math, and science.

Not exact matches

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

In 2010 — 11, 28 percent of K12 schools made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) under the federal No Child Left Behind accountability law, compared to 52 percent of schools nationwide.

Schools that fail to make Adequate Yearly Progress for six consecutive years are subject to the accountability provisions of No Child Left Behind.

* 15 — Accountability: National Conference on Adequate Yearly Progress: Progress and Challenges, sponsored by the Academy for Educational Development, for K - 12 administrators, teachers, and education policy makers, at the AED Conference Center in Washington.Contact: Ashley Carlton or Mairin Brady, Washington Partners, 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20005; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.WPLLC.net.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

If the school adopted that dubious approach under a results - based accountability regime, the student's current ability level would need to be assessed and the school would be required to demonstrate that the child was making adequate yearly progress as determined by an annual assessment using the same testing accommodations.

Education World: Who is going to determine if a state is properly integrating adequate yearly progress into its accountability systems?

Here's how Kristin Blagg of the Urban Institute puts it: «There is evidence that accountability pressure, particularly when schools or districts are on the margin of adequate yearly progress (AYP), is associated with neutral - to - positive achievement gains....

By January 31, 2003, states must submit to the Department of Education plans that explain how their «adequate yearly progress (AYP) and accountability systems comply with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Another problem not remedied in the final bill is that any federal definition of adequate yearly progress is likely to conflict with at least one of the state accountability plans that are already in place.

He surely has the right to offer greater flexibility to the states when it comes to the law's «adequate yearly progress» measures and other parts of its accountability system.

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

Just weeks before states release their lists of schools that have not met «adequate yearly progress» targets under the main federal K - 12 law, many states are still negotiating with federal officials over changes to their accountability plans designed to reduce those numbers.

Those regulations deal with such issues as accountability, adequate yearly progress, teacher quality, school choice, and more.

Replace the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) metric with state - determined accountability systems;

A public school, charter school or school district shall be deemed to have made adequate yearly progress on an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraph (14) of this subdivision if each accountability group within such school or district achieved adequate yearly progress on that criterion.

The new law returns significant power to the states to develop their own accountability standards for schools, repealing the requirement that schools demonstrate «adequate yearly progress.»

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

Eliminating the requirement to calculate adequate yearly progress (AYP) and replacing it with a requirement for each State educational agency to develop an accountability system that --

In states operating under the provisions of the ESEA statute, as well as some states operating under ESEA accountability waivers, this is done by applying measures of adequate yearly progress (AYP).

For each accountability performance criterion specified in paragraph (14) and each performance indicator specified in paragraph (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner, commencing with 2002 - 2003 school year test administration results, shall determine whether each public school, charter school and school district has achieved adequate yearly progress as set forth in paragraph (5) of this subdivision.

The major problem with No Child Left Behind lies with the accountability system and the definition of adequate yearly progress.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

«We have not focused on AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) as a crucial level of accountability.

In 2011, we were rated Academically Unacceptable by the state's accountability system and missed Adequate Yearly Progress in reading and math.

They represent a major shift by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) from its original No Child Left Behind accountability approach for calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP).

: A major fear among reformers is that the ascent of John Kline to the chairmanship of the House Education and Labor Committee will lead to the gutting of the Adequate Yearly Progress and other accountability provisions within the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Every Student Succeeds Act, signed by President Barack Obama last week, does away with the most onerous accountability mandate on schools — adequate yearly progress — while giving states new flexibility to design and implement their own systems for measuring student performance.

While the rudimentary, one - size - fits - all approach of Adequate Yearly Progress has largely failed to produce the promised returns of increased achievement and opportunity, there still must be a reasonable framework and indicators that ensure the various state accountability systems provide clear, strong, consistent and effective models.

Science education as a contributor to adequate yearly progress and accountability programs.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

Parent - student - teacher dialogues like this can provide an accountability forum for a high school campus that has not been making adequate yearly progress.

Achieving our goals for adequate yearly progress in 2002 — 2003 was an important accomplishment because it was the first year of the NCLB accountability program.

In fact the toughest obstacle lies with the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions and dismantle common accountability that has been inexplicably championed by Common Core supporters.

on whether the U.S. Department of Education will waive NCLB accountability provisions regarding assessments and adequate yearly progress for areas impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Sep 29).

It is time for Common Core supporters and the school reform movement as a whole to embrace — and build upon — the strong accountability measures exemplified by the No Child Left Behind Act's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions.

As mentioned in last week's Capitol Connection, Harkin's bill eliminates the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) model and allows states to use the accountability and teacher evaluation systems in place under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers or to create new systems that establish their own student academic performance standards.

Arguing that the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions (as well as the less - than - worthy accountability systems launched as part of the Obama Administration's waiver gambit) do little more than «test and punish» the NEA - AFT coalition is demanding new accountability systems that «support and improve ``, whatever that means.

States will be able to override NCLB requirements such as the mandate for 100 percent proficiency by 2014 and making the measure of «adequate yearly progress» by raw performance instead of growth, instead creating their own accountability systems with higher standards.

Scrap adequately yearly progress, giving states the authority to develop their own accountability systems using multiple measures of student growth and identification of achievement gaps.

The school letter grading system spelled out under the state's Public Law 221 becomes the accountability law of the land for Indiana schools, replacing NCLB's yearly progress goals for school performance, known as «adequate yearly progress» or «AYP.»

While NCLB established a noble new aspiration — raising achievement while closing achievement gaps among all groups of students — its goals were undermined by accountability requirements for schools to make «Adequate Yearly Progress» (AYP) that were generally onerous and, in the case of English learners, literally impossible to meet.