Sentences with phrase «federal accountability purposes»

The plan requires school - by - school reporting for federal accountability purposes.

But typically those efforts are limited to grades three through eight, when state assessments in reading and math are conducted for federal accountability purposes.

Back in 2007, the USDE authorized the use of modified achievement standards for up to 2 percent of special education students for federal accountability purposes when it published final regulations in April of that year.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.

Several states have already opted to use the SAT and ACT in high school for federal accountability purposes, drawn by the idea of using a college entrance test to assess student learning.

The ACGR is the method states are required to use for federal accountability purposes.

That's the scenario that the California State Board of Education has been bracing for and why the Brown administration has so vigorously fought off efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to use the results for federal accountability purposes.

Pennsylvania's proposed indicators for federal accountability include a greater emphasis on academic growth, career readiness benchmarks, chronic absenteeism, and extended - year graduation rates for federal accountability purposes.

This means: students who do not participate in required state testing, for any reason, including required opt - outs in response to a request by a parent or guardian, count «against» proficiency rates for federal accountability purposes.

But the opposition is substantial even as other states move to allow schools to use either the SAT or the ACT as test of record for federal accountability purposes.

Key statewide education groups have voiced concern that AB 484 would suspend all assessments except those required for federal accountability purposes or used for the Early Assessment Program.

In response to this limitation, several states created their own accountability systems — which were used within the state and not for federal accountability purposes — to measure other factors that were critical to their visions for school success and student learning.3 Nonetheless, states still based these systems primarily on academic proficiency.