Sentences with phrase «accountability grades»

All three of the schools who implemented their programs in 2015 — 2016 posted significant learning gains, and two of the three improved their state accountability grade.

For example, schools that earned A or B accountability grades were eligible for principal bonuses and additional funds when students transferred from schools receiving a poor grade.

It is also comprehensive enough that it could be used by the state to produce a school performance evaluation system to replace the A through F school accountability grading system, an idea WakeEd supports here and here.

Using data from New York City, which assigns accountability grades to schools based on

Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Hammond had its state accountability grade bumped to a B due to a testing error earlier this year.

«Though this current model for calculating school accountability grades will be changing, the data does show that some great learning is occurring in our schools, and I want to congratulate our students for their successes,» Ritz said in a written statement released ahead of the meeting.

Schools received target scores based on their accountability grades, and schools with lower accountability grades needed to make larger improvements to reach their targets.

On a related note, the New York City accountability system and, as a byproduct, the bonus program, contain incentives to focus on particular groups of students, since improvements for some student groups matter more in the calculations of a school's accountability grade.

The state test scores of limited - English - proficient students in Georgia's K - 12 public schools will not be counted toward the accountability grades that schools receive from the state until the students have been in the United States for at least two years, under a new policy adopted by the state board of education.

Without the waivers, the accountability grades would create a fairly discouraging picture of public education in Mississippi.