Sentences with phrase «about federal school improvement»

Glenda Ritz, left, answers questions about federal School Improvement Grant money at the June State Board of Education meeting.

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Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about continuing efforts by New York City Chancellor Joel Klein to close chronically failing schools — despite a ruling by a state court that the closings could not proceed — using a federal School Improvement Grant.

NCLB requires states to set aside about $ 230 million of their federal funds for grants to schools in need of improvement.

Speaker after speaker, from the left as well as the right, talked about the inability of the federal government to generate on the ground improvement in schooling.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

It argues that SEAs generally think about these activities through a lens provided by federal law; it discusses how today's reform - minded state chiefs prioritize this line of work; it highlights how SEAs need to alter how they interact with LEAs if these schools are to improve; it details how some departments have reorganized themselves to do this work; it discusses the challenges associated with launching new school - improvement efforts in an era of austerity; and it offers a three - category framework for comparing SEAs.

As the federal School Improvement Grants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prSchool Improvement Grants program winds down, Tim Prudente of the Baltimore Sun writes about one low - performing school in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the prschool in Baltimore, Mary Rodman Elementary, which is using one of the last grants to be given under the program.

It will require a total of about $ 29 million in federal funding — or 20 percent of $ 145.5 million — be set aside to pay for tutoring and transportation by schools now considered to be in need of improvement.

She says that includes updating federal officials about the new education standards and school monitoring efforts, led by the state's division of Outreach for School Improvement, which Ritz created lastschool monitoring efforts, led by the state's division of Outreach for School Improvement, which Ritz created lastSchool Improvement, which Ritz created last year.

As the principal investigator for the evaluation of the federal Center on School Turnaround, Scott has collected data about school improvement efforts natioSchool Turnaround, Scott has collected data about school improvement efforts natioschool improvement efforts nationwide.

For help with navigating federal legislation, researching grant deadlines, and making crucial decisions about school improvements, visit ASCD's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Resources page.

The federal law has now changed, and with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states can seize the opportunity to better align their school improvement plans with what we know about child development and early learning from birth to third grade.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

In a letter the state department's Julia Rafael - Bar wrote to Brown on March 25 about the situation, she also said that the district could jeopardize its $ 11 million in School Improvement Grant funding from the federal government for 2012 - 13 (and $ 40 million over the remaining life of SIG for Buffalo) if it did not conform to state law about teacher evaluations.

We then talked to district and school officials about three schools that increased learning time through federal School Improvement Grants (school officials about three schools that increased learning time through federal School Improvement Grants (School Improvement Grants (SIGs).

Many of the federal requirements in the areas of accountability, assessments, and school improvement have changed, with many of the decisions about these policies now to be made at the state or local level.

At the law's peak, more than 19,000 schools — about two - fifths of schools receiving federal funds and one - fifth of all public schools nationally — were placed on lists of schools «in need of improvement» and subject to consequences built into the law.

Click here to learn more about School Improvement Grants and other federal funding sources.