Sentences with phrase «about statewide testing»

After a few poorly attended events, Project Reach hit its stride with evening gatherings that included performances by the school's step team and programs about statewide testing.

The Journal News reports that many speakers complained about statewide tests in math and English that students took this spring.

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At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

About 250 park officers statewide are trained to assist with search and rescues (including on ice), do field sobriety tests, respond to accidents and serve as liaisons with snowmobile clubs that help maintain the trails.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

The primary vote test for statewide office is 300 votes, which means the statewide candidates need an average of about 6 voters within each legislative district to choose the minor party's primary ballot.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

Maine's commissioner of education said last week that his sudden decision to pull the plug on a statewide test stemmed from his belief that questions about suicide were too sensitive a topic for high school juniors.

* What happens in states (about half of them) that already have statewide graduation tests (e.g., Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and the Ohio Graduation Test) with minimum passing scores?

The percentage of parents choosing to «opt out» of statewide testing grew sharply; for example, about 15 percent of high - school juniors in New Jersey and sophomores in Colorado skipped testing in 2015, and 20 percent of all students did so in New York State.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

The lawsuit argues that new questions in the revised Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress exam will require students to disclose personal information about themselves and their families, said the legislators» lawyer, John Price.

A six - person statewide review panel was to review all test items to ensure that they were free of questions about: — a student's or parent's personal beliefs, sex life, family life, morality, or religion; or — personal characteristics such as honesty, integrity, sociability, or self - esteem.

In about half the states, graduates have also made it through statewide graduation tests that are typically pegged to an 8th -, 9th -, or at most 10th - grade standard of actual performance.

While allowing for a range of NNRs to satisfy the ESA testing requirement provides information about student performance, NNRs do not drive school - level content decisions the way criterion - referenced statewide assessments can, which research suggests can dissuade private school leaders from participating in education choice programs.

Statewide, slightly less than 4,000 of about 306,000 students in grades three through eight chose not to take the test.

Given these higher stakes, are you worried about cheating on statewide tests in Indiana?

Interruptions during statewide readiness tests for this year's ISTEP + have school leaders and students worried about what they'll face when testing begins.

Others will want to take longer, waiting until the California Department of Education (CDE) develops a curriculum framework, and until more is known about what kind of statewide science assessment --- the tests students will take that are aligned with the new standards — will be adopted and when.

According to this year's standardized test results, statewide nearly 10 percent of English learners met or exceeded the English language arts standards, and about 9 percent did so in math.

Representatives on the new state committee examining annual statewide tests need to hear your personal stories about SBAC's effect on your students.

Academically, report card data shows HSA - McKinley Park students meet or exceed performance on standardized tests at about the same rates as statewide averages.

Test scores went up this year in most grades and subjects, but statewide only about 40 percent of students scored at least proficient in math and about 50 percent in reading.

But what about educators who teach subjects like art and music, where students don't take statewide tests?

The 15 volunteer parents who spent a week last year reviewing 10,000 Utah test questions were suddenly — in the last minutes of the 2014 Legislature — handed a far broader job: investigating complaints from parents about curriculum and materials used statewide.

(The district's English language learners scored about the same as other student groups in the district on state tests in 2008; they were about 16 points behind white students statewide.)

In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and middle - school students who rated «proficient» or better on statewide math and reading tests declined by about a third.

Last year, about 31 percent of students statewide were proficient on the tests.

Despite this, Hiawatha's scholars, as they are called, do twice as well on state standardized tests as kids in neighboring schools and about as well as students statewide.

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has published a Parent / Guardian Guide and Refusal for Student Participation in Statewide Testing which provides information to help parents / guardians make informed decisions about Minnesota State Assessments.

Learn about the typical schedule for the process of setting up an ACT Statewide Testing program.

SBAC testing companies say that they require about twenty percent participation statewide to suit their «test the test» objective.

When the statewide SBAC pilot tests were to be administered last year, parents expressed reluctance to state and local officials about subjecting their children to this experiment.

The cost of the tests themselves will be roughly the same per student as the current testing, or about $ 21 million statewide.

A year before the administration of the SBAC field tests statewide, I and others wrote about the lunacy of moving the high school test to 11th grade, a year when most students have a heavy course - load, AP tests, ACTs and SATs.

Every educator knows that statewide tests don't tell us everything we need to know about student performance.

They have a flexible day, an extended day, so they're still maintaining the contract but they're using some flexibility ion what that looks like... we'll know this year because this s the first time these students are taking the std test statewide, but they're feeling very strong about it.

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

Savings From STAR Suspension Would Net About $ 15 Million A plan to suspend some statewide testing in advance of transition to new assessments based on the common core standards would save the state about $ 15 million, according to an estimate released Monday by the California Department of EducaAbout $ 15 Million A plan to suspend some statewide testing in advance of transition to new assessments based on the common core standards would save the state about $ 15 million, according to an estimate released Monday by the California Department of Educaabout $ 15 million, according to an estimate released Monday by the California Department of Education.

Statewide test results released Tuesday by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction include for the first time performance data from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which involves about 110 schools serving around 10,000 students.

Statewide, about 41 percent of juniors tested last spring scored proficient or better in English compared with about 46 percent of those tested in the prior school year.

In what is likely his last statewide broadcast, Cerf took the unusual step of sending out a letter to school districts refuting the New Jersey Education Association, the teachers union, on what he said were its inaccurate claims about new initiatives in teacher evaluation and student testing.

According to New York State's Wadsworth Laboratory, which performs statewide rabies testing, between 2003 and 2009 in New York State, there were about 25 - 30 feline cases of rabies per year.