Sentences with phrase «eliminate high stakes»

We have introduced a bill to eliminate ALL high stakes tests and restore multiple fair pathways to graduation in Washington state.

Senate Bill 6122 would completely eliminate all high stakes tests as a graduation requirement meaning that any student who passed all of their required courses would be allowed to graduate.

It aims to roll back the number of standardized tests kids take and eliminate the high stakes for students and teachers alike.

Certainly there are those within the state who are working hard to eliminate the tests altogether and / or eliminate the high stakes attached for students.

Not exact matches

Peltz and his Trian hedge fund have been lowering or eliminating stakes in many of their high profile companies lately, including KrispyKreme Doughnuts, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Kraft Foods and CKE Restaurants (Carl's Jr and Hardees).

Just because no one was to be eliminated doesn't mean that the stakes were not high..

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Ms. Teachout advocates raising the minimum wage, increasing funding for public schools and eliminating high - stakes testing.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

When the team successfully executes a high - stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done — until, one - by - one, the ten members mysteriously start to be eliminated.

(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)

Macrogenetic research on digital learning can contribute to the further development of effective math education software, shed light on children's math learning, and also largely eliminate the need for high - stakes testing and traditional achievement tests.

United Opt Out is a national resource page with goals to «strengthen public education,» «eliminate the threat of high - stakes testing in public K - 12 education,» and end the «privatization and destruction of public education.»

Effectively, this would make NAEP a moderately high - stakes test as states align their tests to it, and that would eliminate the NAEP as an effective independent, neutral monitor (this refers to the test and the scaled scores, not to the very flawed and misleading «levels»).

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

All three families / foundations fund a plethora of organizations, all of which endorse, promote or in some way support one or more of the following public school reforms: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and superintendent training.

The diverse array of school reformers that believes public education is broken beyond repair have created a shopping list of reforms / solutions that includes the following concepts: charter schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and Common Core standards.

Until more states eliminate testing, participation in high stakes state tests aligned to the standards is required of special education students.

Now West Chester may be joining a growing number of districts around the country in eliminating class rank in its high schools — a high - stakes strategy that educators hold could help some of their students get into the nation's elite colleges, since those schools often overlook candidates who aren't in the rarefied percentiles.

For example, the law eliminated an accountability system that punished schools which failed to increase the percentages of students proficient in math and reading each year — a policy largely blamed for creating the high - stakes culture of over-testing.

So, PSAT Part 2 is to send me your ISAT stories so that we can continue to work to eliminate the high - stakes on the ISAT in Chicago (e-mail me at [email protected]).

There were a few studies that suggested ways of narrowing down the field by eliminating funds that had certain characteristics such as the highest fees, or only including funds that had certain qualitative features such as a large personal stake in the fund by the manager, but no single factor worked consistently.