Sentences with phrase «annual yearly progress»

Schools and school districts are required to meet annual yearly progress goals.

The school made Annual Yearly Progress last academic year, and is on track to do it again this year.

The lack of organic services becomes especially alarming as reports begin to show that cyber charter schools have failed academically, such as in Pennsylvania where not a single cyber charter school met Annual Yearly Progress standards in 2011 — 2012.

Mary Beth's dedication and active participation with her students has helped her Junior English Class increase their proficiency to a level that resulted in achieving Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) as measured by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements.

The API is used to meet state requirements under the Public Schools Accountability Act, and federal Annual Yearly Progress requirements under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

The 10 sitting governors who were assembled as a single panel for Education Nation — more governors collected than at any time since a meeting of the National Governors Association, according to moderator Brian Williams — debated everything from budget reductions for education to the merits of the Obama administration's decision to wave NCLB's Annual Yearly Progress requirements.

«School Librarian Staffing Levels and Student Achievement as Represented in 2006 — 2009 Kansas Annual Yearly Progress Data.»

«School Librarian Staffing Levels and Student Achievement as Represented in 2006 — 2009 Kansas Annual Yearly Progress Data», American Association of School Librarians.

'' [They've] got to get in this many instructional minutes, and this is our expected annual yearly progress on the test,» she says.

After analyzing student outcome data and comparing current student performance with annual yearly progress benchmarks for student achievement, the leadership team agrees that there are significant differences in outcomes among students of diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds unrelated to socioeconomic status???.

In addition, the US Department of Education recently reprimanded Pennsylvania for the overly generous way it calculated Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) for charter schools (Delisle, 2012).

«Some of the schools that aren't getting annual yearly progress are schools that are doing a really good job, and they're taking kids who may have been not up to grade level or far below grade level and bring [ing] them close to grade level, and [they're] be [ing] considered a failure,» Franken said.

In 2011, 84 percent of Indiana schools made overall Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) targets in laid out in the federal No Child Left Behind Act, down from 91 percent in 2005.

The same is true for K — 12 standardized achievement tests and metrics such as annual yearly progress required by No Child Left Behind.

By the 2006 - 2007 school year, Csar Chvez had made annual yearly progress (AYP) two years in a row, and started the year in Phase Zero — meaning the school did not meet AYP for a year, and then made it back to AYP, so the school had been headed back to «in need of improvement» under NCLB, but now is back on track to meeting AYP goals.

As a result, the school did not meet federal annual yearly progress, or AYP, performance standards.

The goal is to ease the pressures of testing and bring an end to the test prep mania that for years has consumed schools worried they wouldn't meet Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) and face closure, firing of staff, or other sanctions.

The DoE's letter saying it would condition Montana's funding comes in response to Juneau's defiance of the law's statute about increasing intermediate goals for Annual Yearly Progress.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

It's making AYP (Annual Yearly Progress).

With states defining the annual yearly progress standard and with no concrete timeline in place, practices varied widely from state to state.

It's also entirely possible that the annual yearly progress provisions will cause trouble, as more and more schools wind up on lists of the low performing and politicians take the heat.

Similarly, the number of Richmond schools meeting the Annual Yearly Progress criteria of No Child Left Behind increased from 20 percent to 80 percent under her leadership.

Also, the federal law specifies that test increases must occur for handicapped children and for children who speak limited English; it also requires separate score targets for reading and math, while the California law allows a merged reading and math score for annual yearly progress.

Not surprisingly, district administrators are highly sensitized to how well their schools are performing against state proficiency standards and Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) targets.

Most parents regard NCLB as being about high stakes testing, annual yearly progress, reading standards, and teacher qualifications.

After one year, schools failing to make annual yearly progress (AYP) are placed on a «school improvement» list.

In addition, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that 95 % of enrolled students must take SOL assessments in order for the school and division to make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP).

The waiver does away with the «annual yearly progress» approach that was mandated under the NCLB law and replaces it with a system of evaluating and ranking schools based on a «School Performance Index.»

This provision also became the part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), which requires that students with disabilities have access to the standardized assessments and make annual yearly progress.

Last year the school achieved its Annual Yearly Progress goals, which coincides with the No Child Left Behind Act.

Like it or not, AYP (Annual Yearly Progress), a federal measure, is one of our strongest accountability requirements because it does not allow us to hide behind rhetoric like «fine schools,» «fine teachers,» and «local control by school boards.»

Are charter schools subject to state testing (SAGE) and Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)?

(Note: Annual Yearly Progress was such a problematic measure that it was abandoned by the CT State and U.S. Federal Departments of Education in Connecticut's 2012 waiver to parts of the NCLB Act.)

The dread «annual yearly progress» requirement is gone, as are the escalating series of consequences inflicted on school districts that don't measure up.

Within three months under her leadership, the school exceeded its enrollment target and met its Annual Yearly Progress goals.

Collectively, we knew that to pass muster, we had to ensure the passing rate to meet Annual Yearly Progress (AYP).