Sentences with phrase «as nonacademic indicators»

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Of the seventeen states that submitted their ESSA plans to the U.S. Department of Education last May, for example, fifteen said they plan to use student chronic absenteeism and / or attendance as an indicator of school quality, and a number are using it as their only «nonacademic» indicator.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

This flexibility, though, is limited by the existing ESSA regulations, as the weighting of nonacademic indicators can not be used to remove a school from a low performance designation.28

As part of a state's newly designed accountability system, at least one additional «nonacademic» indicator of school quality / student success is now allowed.

However, they are coming into much greater prominence in the national conversation because of ESSA, the new federal law which «requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one nonacademic indicator, generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.»