Sentences with phrase «federal accountability standards»

The Rising Star Award recognizes school divisions and schools that have met all state and federal accountability standards for two consecutive years and have improved their VIP scores significantly from the previous year.

Because some states are experimenting with value - added approaches to measuring school progress, it's important that federal accountability standards allow for this type of innovation.

The board voted 8 - 1 July 9 to approve the requirement, which could be could be phased in for the state's nearly 490,000 8th graders as early as the 2009 - 10 school year if the plan passes muster under federal accountability standards.

``... Hoosier schools would have to comply with federal accountability standards and would be at risk of losing federal education dollars.

That's the question the WashPo Answer Sheet blog's Valerie Strauss poses on the eve of a scheduled hearing in the U.S. House Education Committee on federal accountability standards under No Child Left Behind:

The yearslong districtwide scheme denied an untold number of students the right to a proper education by fraudulently boosted the district's test scores, attendance and graduation rates to meet federal accountability standards.

If Indiana were to lose its waiver, Hoosier schools would have to comply with federal accountability standards and would be at risk of losing federal education dollars.

Two schools earned the Board of Education's Rising Star Award, which recognizes school divisions and schools that have met all state and federal accountability standards for two consecutive years and have improved their VIP scores significantly from the previous year.

Educators there are readying a heavy dose of English and mathematics classes for the struggling students in a last - ditch bid to help the school meet state and federal accountability standards.

The incentive program recognizes schools and divisions that far exceed minimum state and federal accountability standards and achieve excellence goals established by the governor and the board.

The Board of Education approved the Virginia Index of Performance in July 2007 in response to Governor Kaine's call for a formal means of recognizing schools and school divisions that exceed minimum state and federal accountability standards.