Sentences with phrase «federal testing requirements often»

While state school districts can choose which academic standards to use, federal testing requirements often lead them to adopt the state's standards.

Not exact matches

That is a sharp break with the U.S. where federal grants and loans are provided without regard to test scores or grades, although some programs offered by states and universities often include a merit requirement.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.