Sentences with phrase «federal testing results»

The education momentum has shifted so dramatically in the past few years that most Washingtonians have no idea why D.C. students suddenly are being singled out for making remarkable progress, as seen in federal testing results released Wednesday.

Not exact matches

WSJ writer John Carreyrou reportedly spoke to four former employees, none of whom are named in his story, including one who «accused the company of failing to report test results that raised questions about the precision» of their tests, which could be «a violation of federal rules for laboratories,» the Journal article said.

Theranos, once valued at $ 9 billion, is also being investigated by other federal and state agencies and was accused in a suit filed in May of endangering customer health through «massive failures» that misrepresented test results, according to court papers.

Today, as a result of the Federal Reserves stress test it was approved for Bank of America to increase its dividend by 60 %.

(e) If test results indicate a specific agricultural product contains pesticide residues or environmental contaminants that exceed the Food and Drug Administration's or the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory tolerences, the certifying agent must promptly report such data to the Federal health agency whose regulatory tolerance or action level has been exceeded.

The New York Public Interest Research Group has opened an online database giving residents a shortcut to accessing federal and state test results for contaminants in drinking water.

While the federal government still would require yearly testing, the results could be used only as a guide to see how students are faring.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

The results showed air quality met federal standards, but an analysis by Investigative Post found the testing period skipped the summer months when bridge traffic increases by one - third.

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

Village Mayor David Borge waited months to request outside federal assistance to help with the pollution after concerned citizens showed him private test results with high levels of contamination.

Revelations that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration knew about elevated levels of the toxin PFOA in the water in Hoosick Falls a year and a half before they warned residents has led the Assemblyman who represents the village to call for a federal investigation, as well as a public forum to explain to residents the results of recent blood tests.

Since then, he and Dr. Biden have worked to enhance public data sharing among federal and academic research institutions and to prompt medical facilities to find ways to share more rapidly and easily share diagnostic test results.

The results of the EPA's tests could guide federal regulation of numerous chemicals for many years to come, so the stakes for both the public and the chemical industry are enormous.

Test results were turned over to federal agencies like the EPA or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which strictly regulated their distribution.

That same newspaper reported, «Cities across the country are manipulating the results of tests used to detect lead in water, violating federal law, and putting millions of Americans at risk.»

Some key reforms live on, including the federal requirement that states test their students in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, disaggregate the results, and report the information to the public; and the requirement that states intervene in the bottom five percent of their schools.

Girls did better than boys in every country tested, a result which Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham said needs to be addressed.

Last month, Education Minister Christopher Pyne guaranteed $ 24.7 million to construct the online platform to demonstrate the Federal Government's commitment to helping deliver the better - quality results schools, parents, teachers and students will see from online NAPLAN tests.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

Test search: Results for «drugs» included informative sites about both street and prescription drugs, including that of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and sites administered by the federal government, such as StopDrugs.org, and organizations.

The loss of these states certainly undermines efforts at generating comparable state results and brings into question the expenditure of $ 350 million in federal funds for common tests.

Everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Students with disabilities: New federal rules make it easier for states to test students with the most severe cognitive disabilities and include their test results in schools» performance ratings.

Proposed federal rules about how to test students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and include those results in ratings of schools are still not final, eight months after the Department of Education released a draft version.

He noted that federal money alone wouldn't improve student learning, arguing that school results had to be «tested and checked» by those funding it.

Although acknowledging their challenges, both principals said they want to channel some of their resources toward improving standardized test results, particularly with talk at the federal level of tying funding to student test scores.

Still, the number of students not taking the exams is significant because both federal and state officials have indicated sanctions could result if too few students take state tests.

The federal agency could allow the state to simply implement the law and use comparable test results for accountability purposes, or the state agency could work with federal officials to use ESSA's pilot testing provision.

But in some cases, that federal requirement piled onto state and local testing rules, resulting in many more hours of preparation and test taking than No Child Left Behind mandated.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

Noting that school - only programs, like KIPP academy, had been producing comparable if not better test results, Brookings questioned whether the proposed federal funding made sense.

As states adopt comprehensive testing programs in response to the federal No Child Left Behind legislation, large databases will be assembled that make it feasible to compare the progress of any given student with a peer group that has a similar history of test results.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal school - accountability law, is widely held to have accomplished one good thing: require states to publish test - score results in math and reading for each school in grades 3 through 8 and again in grade 10.

Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop standards and tests in the first place, and No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Other states have laws that protect parents» right to opt their children out or refuse high - stakes standardized testing and no federal financial penalties of any sort have been imposed on schools in those states as a result of these laws.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

What's not real, Neal says, are the arguments being used to threaten legislators — namely, that it's a federal scheme to tell teachers what to teach, that private groups will mine and profit from test results, and that Common Core will take local control of schools away from Oklahomans.

And we must note that not all of the tests are a result of federal policy.

A plan popular among some state and federal policy makers uses student standardized test results as a significant component in evaluating teachers, in some places comprising up to 50 % of the evaluation.

Loud protests and initiatives, big and small, have created cracks in the standardized testing movement, resulting in the passage of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, which now requires multiple indicators for making determinations of school quality and student progress.

Unncessary mandate: The Bush plan is an unnecessary and unhelpful federal mandate that will have the effect of putting the weight of the federal government behind the overuse and misuse of standardized tests, with educationally harmful results.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

«The tests we see today are a result of the General Assembly's requirements that were passed into law over the past several years, and the result of the federal No Child Left Behind law.

«We hear lots from teachers, parents, and kids about the burdensome testing regimen, and a lot of it is a result of [federal] Race to the Top money,» said Horn, who noted that those federal dollars are coming to an end soon.

In fact, Wyoming's test scores went up across the board that year — despite the fears of state education officials, who asked the federal government months before getting the results to throw out the 2010 data.

The Every Student Succeeds Act creates an innovation fund to test, validate, replicate and scale evidence - based solutions to solve the big challenges students and schools face, and it allows school districts to invest their federal dropout prevention and student safety and health funds in «pay for success» initiatives in which districts pay for student services only if and when specified results are achieved.