Sentences with phrase «from federal school improvement»

With help from a federal School Improvement Grant, programs were put in place at North — like the one - to - one laptop initiative to give each student access to technology.

Both are NEA Priority Schools and both are getting help from federal School Improvement Grants.

The city benefitted from federal School Improvement Grants to shore up parent resources and community support.

With help from a federal School Improvement Grant, programs were put in place like the one - to - one laptop initiative to give each student access to technology.

On top of that they have an additional set of requirements from the federal School Improvement Grant program.

Not exact matches

Despite attracting high - powered backers such as Bill Gates, the much - touted school improvement program known as First Things First has yet to muster conclusive scientific evidence to show that it prevents students from dropping out of school, a federal research review concludes.

In the past, school improvement grant money had come with little to no strong direction from the federal government, and never with so much funding attached.

In 2009, the federal government overhauled the Title I School Improvement Grant program, increased its value to $ 3.5 billion with money from the recovery act, and spelled out four turnaround options from which perennially failing schools would have to choose to get a share of the funding.

With thousands of public schools facing the end of their three - year School Improvement Grants from the federal government, what is being done to prevent backsliding from any progress made?

That meant a school might be designated «needing improvement» because it had failed to raise scores over the past several years — but still could have a higher absolute score than a school that had met the federal standard because it had made steady gains from a lower base.

The school as a whole also is on the federal list of schools in need of improvement; the test scores from all of the small schools are listed under Piccolo.

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

Speaker after speaker, from the left as well as the right, talked about the inability of the federal government to generate on the ground improvement in schooling.

Assistance from City Year Corps, which provides schools with tutors, mentors and role models, is funded through the federal School Improvement Grant program.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

Select a locality for approved applications from local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving School Improvement Grants (SIG) beginning with federal fiscal year 2009.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small distri... Read More...

In higher - performing districts, leaders did not expect improvement in lowperforming schools to occur merely by means of inputs required under federal and state policies (e.g., school choice, tutoring, prescribed needs assessments and schoolimprovement planning, curriculum audits, advice from external consultants).

Federal regulations prohibit school districts identified for improvement or corrective action from serving as SES providers.

School improvement planning has become more prevalent and important due to increased calls from federal and state governments, state education agencies (SEAs), and the general public for more accountability in education.

ESSA prohibits the federal government from requiring specific approaches to school improvement.

Much will change in practice and policy as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaces the law, regulations, and guidance established through NCLB; but two elements of the new legislation stand out: the shift away from federal mandates toward greater state and local authority, and the emphasis on evidence - based school improvement practices.

A group of California districts seeking relief from federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act have proposed implementing its new system for school improvement this fall, assuming its updated application is approved by July, officials said Tuesday.

The federal law has now changed, and with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states can seize the opportunity to better align their school improvement plans with what we know about child development and early learning from birth to third grade.

The fallout from that situation particularly affected New York City, where the district and the United Federation of Teachersquarreled against the backdrop of the complex rules governing two federal programs, Race to the Top and the School Improvement Grants, that require changes to evaluation criteria.

The 1993 federal report on the status of the education of gifted students notes that «Most academically talented students have already mastered up to one - half of the required curriculum offered to them in elementary school» (U. S. Department of Education, 1993, p. 19), not an appreciable improvement from the 1930s (Hollingworth, 1942).

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Roberts was one of four schools in the district to receive $ 2 million in federal funding from a School Improvement Grant.

Related story: NCLB co-author says he never anticipated federal law would force testing obsession It's a sad outcome because the parents who could take advantage of this data the most, where school improvement is most needed, tend to be from the most disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities.

In a letter the state department's Julia Rafael - Bar wrote to Brown on March 25 about the situation, she also said that the district could jeopardize its $ 11 million in School Improvement Grant funding from the federal government for 2012 - 13 (and $ 40 million over the remaining life of SIG for Buffalo) if it did not conform to state law about teacher evaluations.

Mr. Minnich said states also are trying to use lessons learned from initiatives like the $ 4.6 billion federal School Improvement Grant, or SIG, program, which provided grants to states and districts for major interventions in struggling schools.

If approved the new law would «prohibit the federal government from interfering in state and local decisions regarding accountability and school improvement activities» and specifically would prevent the secretary of education from «prescribing specific methods or systems.»

The state recently won a waiver from the federal government's No Child Left Behind Act to give it more flexibility in its school improvement plans.

«As decision - making shifts away from the federal government, it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the skills and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that truly make a difference for kids.»

DC public schools receive funding from several sources: the District's local operating budget, special supplementary operating funds from the DC City Council, capital funding for building improvements and construction, and the federal government.

In keeping with the shift to local control, the collaborative is intended to diverge from the top - down approach that Washington and Sacramento took under the federal No Child Left Behind law and previous state school improvement programs.

The two sub-groups of students who showed the most improvement in reading were students for which federal government intervention is the least justifiable: students who did not come from SINI schools and students who were in the top two - thirds of the test - score distribution when they entered the Program.

And, as decision - making shifts away from the federal government, we recognize that it is more important than ever that our nation's schools be led by individuals who possess the leadership abilities and technical prowess to design and adopt school improvement strategies that will truly make a difference for students.

In a letter last year, a U.S. Department of Education official told Deasy the federal waiver did not exempt L.A. Unified from identifying schools for improvement, corrective action or restructuring, and did not affect any related state laws.

The national policy landscape surrounding academic standards, assessments, accountability, and school improvement is in many respects more chaotic than ever as states transition away from strong federal systems and requirements under NCLB and once again take the lead role in defining and enforcing accountability measures for public schools.

The legislation gives states sole responsibility for creating their own accountability systems as well as creating and implementing their own school improvement strategies, which completely removes the federal government from school accountability and improvement strategies.

The program was piloted in eight schools that were already receiving a School Improvement Grant (SIG) from the Department of Education, a federal grant that goes to the 5 percent lowest performing schools.

In the past year, the Department has announced improvements both to its servicing of federal student loans and to protecting students from abusive school practices.

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