Sentences with phrase «district use test»

Ed - Data's CAASPP graphs now have data for additional student groups, including by race / ethnicity, gender and grade — and you can also compare schools and districts using the test results data.

The number of school districts using these tests will likely continue to increase as providers develop adaptive assessments that reflect the Common Core State Standards and that can be used to help identify students who are likely to have difficulty in demonstrating proficiency on the new Common Core assessments.

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Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

Sports - Related Drug Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33Testing: N.J.S.A. 18A: 40A - 23 (2005) allows boards of education to adopt a policy for the random testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33testing of the districts students in grades 9 - 12 who participate in extracurricular activities, including interscholastic athletics, or who possess parking permits for the use of controlled dangerous substances, including as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C: 35 - 2 and 24:21 - 2 or alcoholic beverages, as defined in N.J.S.A. 33:1 - 1.

There are five edible school gardens throughout the district and produce harvested from the gardens were used for taste tests or in the cafeteria for school meals.

One of the highlights of this project was to develop and test procurement models using U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidance on geographic preference, school food purchasing and bidding requirement that work for both school districts and farms / food producers.

But while applauding the group's initiative, David Doig, chief of the Chicago Park District, pointed out the group, the Sierra Club, used a test that the U.S. EPA considers less reliable for predicting the presence of bacteria harmful to humans than the one used daily at Park District beaches.

They have suggested they may bar the use of lead shot and require water testing, despite the Naperville Park District's insistence that a roster of tests have shown no dangerous contamination.

Using longitudinally linked, student - level data collected from two urban school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts of five EL middle schools on students» reading and math test scores.

The permit requires regular testing of the water by the Naperville Park District to make sure shooting does not damage the area, and it allows for the use of steel shot only, not lead.

Cherokee County School District students for the second consecutive year exceeded State averages on the 2016 Georgia Milestones End - of - Grade and End - of - Course tests, which are used to assess the mastery of Georgia Performance Standards.

The bill was first announced Thursday in the Assembly, with Democrats backing legislation that would replace state - created or written examinations with alternative assessments for school districts that do not use state tests, with regulations set by the state Education Department.

The GOP majority has been strongly supportive of the Endless Testing Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outTesting Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt outtesting down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt out rates.

To test for this, I use geographical coordinates of MPs» districts [11] to calculate the distance and travel time to Westminster in: 1) minutes it takes to drive by car; 2) minutes it takes by public transport; 3) kilometres covered by car; and 4) kilometres as the crow flies.

Nolan said the measure does not preclude individual school districts from using the test score results as part of their teacher evaluations, if everyone at the school agrees.

State Legislature bans school districts from using student test scores to decide teachers» eligibility for job tenure.

Weiss said he considers the state tests to be useful, and the district uses results to evaluate their programs as well as students.

Districts would be required to use state - administered standardized assessments as a component in the ratings, but they would also have the option to use an additional test that would also be designed by the state.

For teachers at districts that opt to use two tests, if teachers» rating based on both tests combined is «ineffective,» they must be rated «ineffective» overall.

New York City schools and a handful of districts statewide have used the standardized tests under Common Core for grades 3 through 8 as a factor in promoting students to the next grade.

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

The agreement also would prohibit other school districts from choosing to use the standardized tests for grade promotion, the officials said.

In New Jersey's 3rd Legislative District, our digital campaign was able to try and test new tactics not previously used in state legislative races — most notably Facebook In - Stream video ads, and ConnectedTV video ads.

The school district released the results of testing water for lead at all 63 school buildings, which showed 308 outlets had levels above the EPA's action limit, including 18 fountains and 33 faucets typically used for consumption or food preparation.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

In New York City and some upstate districts, young children are taking bubble tests or online exams, even though some of the children can't yet hold a pencil or use a computer, union leaders said during a conference call Thursday.

ALBANY — Some school districts will have to go back to the negotiating table as schools begin to navigate a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.

Should a large share of the state's 600 - plus school districts choose to use alternative exams, the commissioner and her department would face a massive task in screening such tests.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.

The North District race was a hotly contested one filled with big campaign contributions and contrasting educational ideologies from the two candidates on everything from charter schools to extending the school day to the use of standardized tests.

While the state has taken some of the stakes away from the «high stakes» tests, such as not using them for teacher evaluations, districts still see them as crucial.

The long - term plan is to have all districts use the computer - based test for annual state tests because it has the potential to make the assessments stronger instructional tools and will make it possible to get test results back sooner, according to the state Education Department.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

The state education department still is in the process of advising districts how the moratorium will work in their evaluation systems, but generally the locally negotiated, state - approved assessments will be used instead of the state test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.

«Cuomo's test - punish - privatize - and - segregate policy is using high - stakes testing to label students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing.

About 260 of the state's more than 700 districts used computer - based testing this week.

While the new method doesn't provide a new tool for drawing congressional district maps, it does provide a rigorous test to detect that existing maps were created in a biased fashion, and researchers may find applications in the many other fields where Markov Chains are used.

A field worker in a vector control district collects and prepares mosquito samples, which are then sent to a lab for testing using sophisticated PCR techniques.

New York City public schools do not use a standardized test that can be compared with any of the other public school districts.

Though specific ways to implement the plans were not addressed, he stressed the need to use troubled urban school districts as a testing ground for...

Only a few of the districts could be directly compared because they use the same standardized achievement test.

Houston and Los Angeles, the sixth and second largest school districts in the United States, respectively, each use the Stanford 9 test.

The Jefferson County, Kentucky, contract, for example, mandates that the district may not use student test scores «in any way to evaluate the work performance of employees unless they agree voluntarily.»

The overwhelming majority of teachers (68 %) indicated support for this testing program when it is used as a diagnostic instrument, and even as a accountability tool when similar schools and / or school districts are being compared.

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

• The Proving Ground initiative at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research helps districts and charter school networks design and use a deliberate, analytical approach to gathering and using evidence to test digital tools they might adopt systemwide.

In implementing READS, districts must adopt a set of data use strategies that inform decision - making and help to improve student achievement, such as examining spring to fall achievement gains or losses and using the results of student surveys and achievement tests to select books that are well matched to students» reading skills and interests.

«The results will be jaw - dropping,» especially in districts that are used to acing state tests, he predicted.