Sentences with phrase «controlled achievement school district»

How it works: the state identifies its bottom five percent of schools based on their students» performance on standardized tests and marks them «priority schools,» placing them within the state - controlled Achievement School District with the goal of lifting them up into the state's top 25 percent within five years.

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These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Narrowing the scope of the Chance - for - Success Index to factors both causally related to school achievement and under the control of state education officials or school districts would improve its value and deliver the right signals to states.

South Carolina has hired Edison Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County school system, a poor rural district entering its fifth school year under state control.

Brockman's bill for achievement school districts — a reform that could grant for - profit charters the ability to wring control of a low - performing school from a local school district — is not about teachers, he insists.

Last week's panel came as Republican lawmakers pushed legislation that could wrest control of some chronically low - performing schools from local school boards, placing staffing and curriculum powers in the hands of for - profit charter operators in so - called «achievement school districts.»

In writing the Local Control Funding Formula, the Legislature wanted schools and districts to take a comprehensive look at school life and achievement.

A Value - Added Model (VAM) is a multivariate (multiple variable) student growth model that attempts to account or statistically control for all potential student, teacher, school, district, and external influences on outcome measures (i.e., growth in student achievement over time).

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

A. LCAP stands for a Local Control Accountability Plan, which each school district must write to explain its goals and strategies for improving achievement for all students.

One study that controlled for these factors found that the charters touted as successful — KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon Schools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disSchools — spend between 20 - 30 percent more than comparable public schools in their host disschools in their host districts.

Switching to a mayor - led school system can provide a huge boost in student achievement, and cities across the country are experimenting with this new method of district control.

«Because districts ultimately choose which schools close and to which schools displaced students transfer, districts have some degree of control over how closures will impact the achievement of the students they displace,» said Stroub.

The State Board of Education took a small step Thursday toward launching a new agency that will have a pivotal role in seeing that districts and schools meet achievement targets and other goals under the Local Control Funding Formula.

Districts control everything that makes it possible to improve achievement - people, programs, money, schools — and most importantly most of the students.

It's been three years since Tennessee implemented the Achievement School District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state District (ASD), a statewide district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state district to turnaround the state's lowest - performing schools by pulling individual schools under state control.

Students in the study were in the third grade as of spring 2013 and enrolled in a public school in one of five urban districts: Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Fla.; Pittsburgh; or Rochester, N.Y. Researchers used a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of district - run voluntary summer programs on student achievement and social and emotional skills in the fall after the students participated in the summer program.

The Student Success Act would give states and school districts more control over spending federal money and remove federal requirements that states set goals for student achievement.

His Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which went into effect five years ago, provides more money to school districts with large numbers of poor and / or «English learner» students on the assumption that it will close the much - lamented «achievement gap» in learning.

Several studies of LSC reform conclude that site - based management under parent - majority LSCs successfully raised academic achievement.3 Further study showed that schools where LSCs were allowed to continue as the main policy - making body for the school after mayoral control was established in 1995 improved substantially more than schools where the district intervened and usurped LSC control.4