Sentences with phrase «federal accountability requirements»

Title I Distinguished schools are recognized for meeting all state and federal accountability requirements for two consecutive years and achieving reading and mathematics SOL pass rates at 60th percentile or higher.

But when asked whether Texas could request a waiver from federal accountability requirements, Morath stated that there was no precedent for that to his knowledge nor did he think one would likely be granted.

«ESSA claws back some of the most problematic federal accountability requirements, and it emphasizes the need for social and emotional, as well as traditional academic, measures of student success,» Weiss said.

If you believe that the only thing holding back major improvement in American education has been burdensome federal accountability requirements, then indeed we are at the threshold of a golden era in US schooling.

Inclusion of the school quality and student success indicator in ESSA represents a sea change in federal accountability requirements.

Forty - six schools were recognized as Title I Distinguished Schools for meeting all state and federal accountability requirements for two consecutive years and achieving SOL pass rates at the 60th percentile or higher for reading and mathematics.

Over and over the article gives weight to unsubstantiated claims (actually known more commonly as «opinions») about the abysmal education that your child will suffer by going to a school that is exempt from federal accountability requirements.

There is a struggle also to link tightened teacher credentials to the federal accountability requirements.

«According to the 2009 Federal Accountability Requirements, statewide, more than 39 percent of Latinos are proficient in English and 44 percent in math, but at the King school, those numbers are a dismal 30 percent and 29 percent, respectively.

(R.I.) Rhode Island will become the latest in a growing list of states to drop its national consortium designed assessment in favor of using a college - readiness exam to meet federal accountability requirements, education officials announced last week.

He said school districts are used to answering to Sacramento — and providing government bureaucracies information they need to satisfy both state and federal accountability requirements.

Over the past eight years, NAESP has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill on behalf of Pre-K-8 principals to address the many challenges that educators have faced due to the shortsighted one - size - fits - all federal accountability requirements, misguided school improvement schemes, and little to no capacity - building for educators to ensure effective practice is supported.

Learning Services provides leadership and assistance in meeting state and federal accountability requirements.

Title I Distinguished schools are recognized for meeting all state and federal accountability requirements for and achieving average reading and mathematics SOL scores at 60th percentile or higher.

WIDA created the Alternate ACCESS for ELLs to meet federal accountability requirements and to provide educators with a measure sensitive to English language proficiency growth of ELs with significant cognitive disabilities.

Additionally, a growing number of states are opting to cover the cost of college - prep entrance exams rather than issue standardized tests to assess high school juniors» academic progress to meet federal accountability requirements, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Delaware, Maine Illinois, Connecticut and Kentucky.

At least a dozen states mandate or allow the use of one of these tests to satisfy some federal accountability requirements.

Many teachers have given the optional interim tests to their students during the school year to gauge how they are doing, hoping to adjust what or how they teach in advance of the final assessments that are used to fulfill state and federal accountability requirements.

Schools and school divisions must meet or exceed all applicable state and federal accountability requirements.

Thirty - six schools were recognized as Title I Distinguished schools for meeting all state and federal accountability requirements for two consecutive years and achieving reading and mathematics SOL pass rates at the 60th percentile or higher.

Only schools and school divisions that have met all state and federal accountability requirements for two consecutive years — and have not experienced significant irregularities in the administration of state assessments — are eligible to earn VIP awards.