Sentences with phrase «back federal testing»

Key congressional Republicans have suggested they will consider paring back the federal testing requirements.

You say it would be a mistake for lawmakers to roll back federal testing requirements or go back to the «old days» when there were none.

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The Cosco High Back Booster seat was also crash tested and it meets or exceeds Federal Safety Standards, so you shouldn't worry about the safety of your kid.

The move sets the stage for an unprecedented three - way race in which Crist will test whether he can win federal office without the formal backing of a political party.

President Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

President Barack Obama on Dec. 10 signed into law major education legislation that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

The U.S. Senate on Dec. 9 voted 85 to 12 for an overhaul of federal education law that dials back the federal role in public education and bars the federal government from tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

National tests in several core subjects could be eliminated or scaled back over the next five years without more federal funding, the officials who set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress say.

At the press conference where he introduced Fariña, de Blasio said, «[Testing] has taken us down the wrong road and, within limits of state and federal law, we will do all we can to roll back that focus.»

The U.S. Department of Education has notified Georgia officials that it plans to withhold $ 783,000 in federal aid because the state has not fully met testing requirements dating back to 1994.

A significant portion of respondents (71 percent) backs a voluntary national testing program that the federal government would administer to fourth - and eighth - grade students to measure the performance of U.S. public schools.

Republicans are hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year — one that could end up dramatically rolling back the federal role in education and trigger national blowouts over standardized tests and teacher training.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, which takes full effect in the 2017 - 18 school year, rolls back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

How ironic when the federal government has recognized the unreliability and overuse of testing, and has backed away from using test scores to evaluate teachers.

The AFT worked hard to shift the focus away from testing back to teaching, to push school decision - making back to states and communities, and to continue to direct federal funds to the public schools that educate the kids who need the most.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which goes into full effect in the 2018 — 19 school year, rolled back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

Washington — In a rare appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court, Attorney General Richard Thornburgh last week urged the justices to back a federal drug - testing policy that could set the pattern for similar requirements for teachers and other school employees.

Just days before a deadline this month mandated by Congress, the Department of Education signed binding compliance agreements with several states that lag far behind in meeting federal requirements on standards and testing dating back to 1994.

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

Garcia has pushed back against the federal requirement that schools test students every year in math and reading from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, calling it «toxic testing» that has turned schools into test - prep factories.

Harmful proposals, including diversion of federal monies from high - poverty schools and allowing parents to opt their children out of tests, were beaten back.

After five years of test scores at the back end of the curve, it had been targeted by the federal No Child Left Behind Act

The federal government is also backing off the idea of using test scores in teacher reviews.

Huberty urged Morath to reach out the U.S. Department of Education to find out whether a waiver from testing could be granted and to report back on the financial ramifications of failing to meet federal requirements in affected districts.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday directed his state board of education to back out of a consortium developing one of the Common Core benchmark tests and review the standards for ways to strengthen them and prevent «federal intrusion.»

Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last January, in which the federal government handed back to states the authority to decide whether to evaluate teachers with or without students» test scores, states have been dropping the value - added measure (VAM) or growth components (e.g., the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) package) of their teacher evaluation systems, as formerly required by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

The federal lawsuit, which is also backed by the National Education Association and the Florida Education Association, says that some teachers» rights are being violated because they are being assessed based on students that sometimes aren't even in their classroom — a byproduct, critics say, of the law's requirement that test scores account for a part of educators» pay even if there are no state exams in that grade or subject area.

The movement to push back against the domination of testing in public education includes participants with diverse educational views — from people who believe the Federal government has no role in public education to parents of special education students outraged that their children are subjected to inappropriate measure.

We believed that all three had more than enough capital to pass the Federal Reserve's stress tests and return a large portion of their excess capital back to shareholders.

The bill is backed by an advocacy group, the White Coat Waste Project, which has been using the USDA - APHIS database to gather much of its information on animal testing at hundreds of federal laboratories.