Sentences with phrase «current testing mandate»

Calling the current testing mandate excessive, school districts are asking the State Board of Education if they can implement their own tests to fulfill the state's new reading law for third - grade students.

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In that light, sports leagues» tests for cannabis can look somewhat like a charade: After speaking with several current and former athletes, it became clear that many of them weren't really scared of getting caught for cannabis use, because they believed the people who mandate the testing didn't really want to catch them.

On the subject of altering the current mandates, including increased standardized testing, Common Core curriculum and the especially controversial data sharing, Tkaczyk said she is certain that these topics will be hotly debated during this legislative session.

(Sec. 8027) Current law prohibits the use of funds available under the ESEA to mandate nationwide testing or certification of teachers or education paraprofessionals.

Our current Public School method of funded / unfunded mandates, testing by CSAP / TSAP (or whatever is in vogue this school year) is a process that is failing our Students and frustrating too many of our Teachers.

A reauthorized ESEA may completely eliminate the federal interventions that are in the current version of ESEA and is likely to give individual states much more decision - making authority when it comes to accountability and testing mandates.

The data we get from federal - and state - mandated tests are usually old by the time we get them, so they aren't useful for making instructional decisions on the current year.

Current law mandates annual reading and math tests in grades 3 - 8 plus once in high school, as well as science tests in three grades.

If authentic assessment is not mandated, then the alternative is the current unreliable / invalid common core tests, the Regents or other exams that were not designed to rate teachers.

Schools and districts in these Common Core member states have been promised next - generation assessments that will replace current No Child Left Behind (NCLB)-- mandated annual tests and provide more precise measures and timely results of each student's content mastery and comprehension.

As a not - entirely - surprising result, current state law requires an opt - out to be granted only for state - mandated tests but not for testing that is federally - required under ESSA.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

Critics say the current system, mandated by the state, is unfair because it judges teachers in part on students» test scores, which tend to be lower in districts with more poverty.

The second option would keep the current testing schedule mandated by No Child Left Behind (NCLB), but allow districts to use their own testing systems, with the state's approval.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

The current law mandates the application of the best interests of the child test.