Sentences with phrase «essentially holds school»

The political world essentially holds school districts hostage by tying both federal and state money to standardized tests performance.

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While total state spending has been held to two percent annual growth and most state agency budgets have been held essentially flat, School Aid is increasing by 6.5 percent for the 2016 - 17 School Year and will have increased by nearly 27 percent since 2011 - 12.

Senator Simcha Felder had been accused by Assembly Democrats of essentially holding the negotiations hostage over an issue with religious schools before a deal was reached on Friday.

New York State's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place by Nov. 15, has essentially been put on hold as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

The state's latest teacher evaluation system, which was supposed to be in place November 15, has essentially been put on hold, as 90 percent of school districts have been granted waivers to delay its implementation.

The FTC program, which is essentially a voucher program funded by business tax credits, is the largest private school choice program in the country and has been held up as a national model by advocates and policymakers.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

Just as importantly, what is the point of focusing accountability on growth if the system used for holding schools and districts accountable essentially don't account for it?

Essentially, the organizations are holding their noses and hoping that the school - choice language gets scrapped in conference.

Without annual information, from high - quality assessments, on school and district performance, the state and district lack meaningful data to inform and enforce intervention decisions for low - performing schools, essentially putting the most needed interventions on hold for years.

He indicated a strategy of slowly growing charter school market share over the next 20 - 30 years until essentially all public education would have been replaced by privately held corporations.

The fact that there is no component for holding schools and districts accountable for improving achievement for all children — especially those from poor and minority communities — essentially makes the school inspection idea not ready for prime time.

Yet those education traditionalists, especially AFT officials in L.A., and their counterparts at the statewide affiliate and the NEA's Golden State unit, who want to simply blame school leaders for the failure to catch Berndt are also essentially refusing to hold their colleagues responsible.