Sentences with phrase «continued testing mandate»

With the continued testing mandate in this ESSA, the federal government should anticipate an opt - out showdown.

Not exact matches

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

Yet governments continue to mandate animal tests, despite the lack of a formal demonstration of fitness for purpose, and a growing global realisation among scientists that animal toxicity tests are inadequate and must be replaced.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

Although the mandate for student testing continues, the use of the tests is now a state and local matter.

Federally mandated testing will continue under the law, but the best way to respond to test results will be left to the states.

Regardless of the relative merits of standardized testing, federally mandated annual testing would continue to have a real effect on local school policy.

A chief concern among the negotiators was to walk a line between those constituencies that wanted to continue a federal mandate on standardized testing for «accountability» purposes and those that didn't want any federal involvement in local education decisions.

The authors» and illustrators» letter continued, «We are alarmed at the negative impact of excessive school testing mandates, including your administration's own initiatives, on children's love of reading and literature.

Apparently, politicians and state - government bureaucrats remain unconcerned about the quality of the tests they mandate, so long as they can continue to appear to be «tough on teachers.»

You should do this — Tester knows because he tried to eliminate it — because it continues the abominable federal mandate that all states must give annual standardized tests.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Numerous questions about the impact of the new law remain but on the opt - out issue it appears that Congress will require states to notify parents about the Common Core Testing scheme but will continue to require that states mandate that 95 % of students participate in the destructive tests — «or else.»

«LAS VEGAS — Technical problems continue for Nevada's Common Core testing a week after a malfunction first halted the federally - mandated assessment process.

His signing of the bill gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an unmistakable mandate from Congress that it must continue to embrace 21st century science and transition away from outdated animal testing protocols, which are expensive and slow and often don't accurately translate to human physiology.