Sentences with phrase «begin statewide testing»

Against heavy opposition, I had pushed hard to begin statewide testing of our public school students.

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ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

Californians have begun the push to construct a new statewide testing system to replace the controversial program that was disbanded last September.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

I'm convinced that much of the modest success we've enjoyed has been tied to the adoption of a statewide graduation requirement based on our 10th - grade MCAS test (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), beginning with the class of 2003, not the result of a national standard or ethic.

At BCF's flagship schools, Brighter Choice for Girls and Brighter Choice for Boys, 3rd and 4th graders have been outperforming their district counterparts almost from the beginning on the statewide English language arts and mathematics exams (see Figure 1 for the 2009 test results).

Statewide content standards are beginning to spawn high - stakes tests that have evoked furious opposition — not without cause.

This report presents the results of a project to estimate the percentage of U.S. elementary and secondary students being assessed on deeper learning skills through statewide mathematics and English language arts achievement tests at the beginning of the Deeper Learning Initiative.

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

Three years after Maryland began to hold public school students to higher standards, results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress and less than half statewide passed the tests.

Legislative action Thursday clears the way for California schools to begin statewide student testing based on the new common core curriculum beginning in the spring of 2015.

Not to have a strong communication from education leadership in CA on this issue is failure to recognize what the trenches deserve to know before statewide testing begins, and as of this week the statewide testing in CA has begun.

The Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M - STEP, is a replacement for the 40 - year old MEAP test and will begin statewide in spring 2Test of Educational Progress, or M - STEP, is a replacement for the 40 - year old MEAP test and will begin statewide in spring 2test and will begin statewide in spring 2015.

But as departments have begun to release first, second, and third drafts of accountability plans to gather more feedback, constituents are inevitably split on policy decisions regarding statewide goals, testing and accountability systems.

«Texas was the canary in the coal mine for what later happened with No Child Left Behind,» says David Deming, author of the study, noting that Texas began statewide standardized testing in 1993, eight years before NCLB.

By participating in the Field Test, your child will be influencing the development of the Smarter Balanced assessments that will be Connecticut's statewide assessment beginning in the 2014 — 2015 school year.

The statewide tests were eliminated last year, in anticipation of computerized tests based on the Common Core State Standards, which begin this spring.

The legislation «evolved» with hard work by AEA from an original mandate that 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based upon student test scores, Instead, the key features of the new bill include what AEA called «a statewide uniform system of teacher evaluation (beginning in the 2014 - 15 school year) that emphasizes quality assurance and teacher growth»....

BL: And I'll begin with some things that are in the news this week, beginning with your new Schools Chancellor, Richard Carranza, urging parents not to opt their kids out of statewide standardized tests... Is that consistent with your own views as a critic of high stakes standardized testing?

With this being the inaugural year of online testing for all high schools, we anticipated the potential for difficulties in the statewide implementation, so we did not schedule online tests to begin until Wednesday for safe measure.