Sentences with phrase «common in schools across the state»

Adjustments to libraries, cafeterias, and resource rooms are common in schools across the state rushing to create as many as 20,000 new classrooms.

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In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

Much controversy the past year in school districts across the state centered around Common Core Learning Standards.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly are both calling for a minimum two - year moratorium on further implementing Common Core in schools across the state, a proposal that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has called «premature» until an education commission can come up with recommendations to change the standards by the end of the session in June.

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

The rushed rollout of the Common Core State Standards under Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2012 - 13 school year set off alarm bells in school hallways and living rooms across the sState Standards under Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2012 - 13 school year set off alarm bells in school hallways and living rooms across the statestate.

He believes the Common Core standards are working well in many schools across the state.

This phenomenon is common across the United States, with charters fighting for space in high - cost cities without the legislative and financial supports that district schools enjoy (see «Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

This intensive three - day program, Making Caring Common: Promoting Caring and Respect in Students, and Preventing Bullying and Behavior Problems, will convene school - and district - level teams from across the United States.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

Across the nation, big shifts are afoot as 45 states and thousands of school districts gear up to implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics.

As schools and districts across the country continue to move forward in implementing the Common Core State Standards, two multi-state consortia ---LSB-...]

As children return to school across the country, Common Core remains largely intact in more than forty states.

As the Connecticut Common Core SBAC testing disaster continues to disrupt schools across the state over the next two months, parents here should look to the example set by parents in Montclair, New Jersey and opt their children out of the Common Core testing scheme.

Strong Schools (Sumner County) Williamson Strong (Williamson County) SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) SOCM (Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment) Momma Bears Blog Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children (Nashville) Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) The Dyslexia Spot Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) East Nashville United Tennessee Against Common Core (Statewide) Coalition Advocating of Public Education (CAPE)

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

The Next Generation Science Standards have in many ways been overshadowed by the Common Core, which the state adopted in 2010 and is now being implemented in school districts across California.

The quiz is part of a new set of state - sponsored curriculum materials that many schools across New York are adopting in full for the first time this fall as they try to meet the new Common Core State Standards in math and Engstate - sponsored curriculum materials that many schools across New York are adopting in full for the first time this fall as they try to meet the new Common Core State Standards in math and EngState Standards in math and English.

In a first of its kind online collaboration in Arizona, nearly 200 charter teachers across the state spent four weeks exchanging ideas about what teachers and schools need to ensure a successful transition to the Common Core State StandardIn a first of its kind online collaboration in Arizona, nearly 200 charter teachers across the state spent four weeks exchanging ideas about what teachers and schools need to ensure a successful transition to the Common Core State Standardin Arizona, nearly 200 charter teachers across the state spent four weeks exchanging ideas about what teachers and schools need to ensure a successful transition to the Common Core State Standstate spent four weeks exchanging ideas about what teachers and schools need to ensure a successful transition to the Common Core State StandState Standards.

Schools across the state are implementing the Common Core in kindergarten and first grade.

There are many across the United States that say that the Common Core has helped set a high bar, that the expectations set by the Common Core have been an impetus for teachers to expect more of students in low performing schools.

adopt a common set of college - and career - ready standards «substantially identical across all States in a consortium» by December 31, 2011, and implement the standards by the 2014 — 15 school year;

We were motivated to pursue this research after the adoption of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics increased the emphasis of statistics in the high school curriculum across the United States.

While the CCSS were intended to bring coherence and consistency across states with regard to expected educational outcomes to be achieved by grade for students in U.S. public schools, the expected adoption of a common set of state standards by all states ultimately was not realized.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed by the National Governor's Council and offered for possible adoption by U.S. to address the lack of consistency in what is taught across schools in different states.

With the Common Core State Standards emphasizing listening and speaking across the curriculum, these long - neglected language arts are regaining a place in schools.

Tom Ash, BASA director of governmental relations, said, «The committee's passing of HB 597 is particularly troubling in light of the many school leaders from across the state who testified in favor of «staying the course» with the Common Core State Standstate who testified in favor of «staying the course» with the Common Core State StandState Standards.

A group of retired military generals isurging lawmakers in North Carolina not to repeal the Common Core, which could make frequent school changes across state lines simpler for military children.

Establish common goals that require offices and departments across the SEA to work together to build the capacity of all districts, schools, and teachers in the state?

Overview State education agencies and school districts across the country are in the midst of major changes, as they align their work with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

To strengthen state implementation of Common Core State Standards and meaningful teacher evaluations, the Aspen Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of recommendations for forging coherence across these efforts at CCSSO's Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS) meeting of 22 states in New Orlstate implementation of Common Core State Standards and meaningful teacher evaluations, the Aspen Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of recommendations for forging coherence across these efforts at CCSSO's Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS) meeting of 22 states in New OrlState Standards and meaningful teacher evaluations, the Aspen Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of recommendations for forging coherence across these efforts at CCSSO's Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS) meeting of 22 states in New OrlState School Officers (CCSSO) released a set of recommendations for forging coherence across these efforts at CCSSO's Implementing the Common Core Standards (ICCS) meeting of 22 states in New Orleans.

The five - year Math in Common (MiC) initiative supports a formal network of 10 California school districts as they implement the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics across grades K — 8.

The Common Core standards were motivated by a simple argument, that «high standards that are consistent across states provide teachers, parents, and students with a set of clear expectations to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life upon graduation from high school, regardless of where they live.»

As schools across the nation implement the common core state standards in English language arts and math, a new effort is underway to develop common science standards.

The GE Foundation Grant assists nineteen schools (and will add up to 20 more schools for the 2014 - 2015 school year) in the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and is working with GE Foundation, GE Healthcare, the Milwaukee Teacher's Education Association and other MPS departments to bring the CCSS implementation to scale across the district.

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices [NGA Center] & Council of Chief State School Officers [CCSSO], 2010a) organizes standards as progressions across grades within anchor standards.

Greater consistency and quality across schools and districts in the United States can be achieved through a common, coherent curriculum.

Forced placement — when teachers are placed in a school without an interview process — is common practice in school districts across the state.

... we must continue to implement consistent high standards like the Common Core across every classroom, every school, and every district in our state.

Each year, 10.6 million elementary and middle school students in the United States learn a common social - emotional language — and educators across the country praise the program's ease of use and the speed at which they see improvements in the classroom.

When it comes to the Common Core SBAC testing mania, a number of parents from across the state — along with students and teachers — have identified a significant number of school districts that are engaged in immoral, unethical and quite likely illegal efforts to undermine parental rights and bully and abuse children who have been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing scheme.

Now that the 2016 Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing season has begun for school districts across Connecticut, there has been a significant and disturbing increase in the number of reports that local school districts — driven by Governor Dannel Malloy's State Department of Education — are engaged in the unethical abuse of children whose parents have refused to allow their children to participate in the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory SBAC testing program.

Her hope is that the online tests coming as part of the Common Core conversion will force school districts across the state to invest more in technology.

As kids across the country return to school, the results of a new poll suggest it's adults who need a lesson on the Common Core State Standards, a set of end - of - grade expectations in math and English adopted by 44 states and the District of Columbia.

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.