Sentences with phrase «data on a statewide basis»

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Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Considered on a statewide basis, the data reflect vast differences in the cost of living and in property values between upstate and downstate regions.

This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates based on wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

My colleague Katharine Lindquist and I used statewide data from North Carolina to simulate the impact of opt - out on test - score - based measures of teacher performance.

Further changes are promised for subsequent years, including student - growth data based on statewide assessments.

Our analysis is based on statewide, student - level longitudinal data obtained from the Arizona Department of Education (AZDOE) that contains information on test scores, school enrollment, and student characteristics for the 2005 - 06 through 2011 - 12 school years.

It may not be popular or politically expedient, but annual, statewide standardized testing, and yes — even accountability and consequences based on that data — at least deserve a defense.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

CPS spends $ 15,120 per pupil, based on the most recent school finance data statewide.

And New Mexico is adjusting its system after flawed evaluations, based on erroneous data, caused an uproar in districts statewide.

Seth has published articles in school psychology journals, and has presented at many statewide, as well as national conferences on topics such as tiered problem solving, data based decision - making, program evaluation, peer tutoring, school - based intervention teams, and RTI for English language learners.

In the first study, I examine the antecedents of racial and special education - based disparities in disciplinary outcomes using statewide, student - level panel data on all students attending pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in Indiana, between 2009 and 2014.

This report describes findings based on new statewide data.

(3) In any fiscal year, if the board determines based on student performance data collected pursuant to section 1I, said district is in the lowest 10 per cent of all statewide student performance scores released in the 2 consecutive school years before the date the charter school application is submitted, the school district's total charter school tuition payment to commonwealth charter schools may exceed 9 per cent of the district's net school spending but shall not exceed 18 per cent.

Statewide systems of school improvement and support were focused largely on compliance and sanctions based on bald, end - of - year data that provided little evidence of how results were achieved and moreover, were not useful for making decisions at the school and system levels.

A second recent study based on statewide data from North Carolina also points to the potential pitfalls of specialization.

Based on our 2016 analysis of statewide reports, we found that states were missing important opportunities to communicate about state education priorities and school quality because reports were hard to find, full of jargon, and missing important data.

Thus, states should provide prediction weights based on statewide data for individual districts to use when calculating teacher evaluation scores.

Additionally, a statewide sortable spreadsheet of all schools is also now available and based on data released by the California Department of Education (CDE).

The student growth trend rating of high, expected or low will be based on professional judgment and three years of data — student growth percentiles on state K - PREP tests (how much a class improves from one grade level to the next comparing students in the class to their academic peers statewide) or rigorous, locally determined student growth goals, developed collaboratively between the teacher and evaluator.