Sentences with phrase «in placement decisions»

At the same time, in my career as a child welfare caseworker, I was involved in placement decisions for hundreds of children and their biological, foster, and adoptive families.

A concern raised about MEPA / IEPA was the potential increase in transracial adoption due to the penalties for the use of race as a factor in placement decisions.

But our primary consideration in all placement decisions is the welfare of the pet.

However, the law requires districts to include certain practices, such as relying on multiple objective measures in placement decisions, using student performance data to ensure equity and efficacy, and ensuring the consistency of placement policies between elementary and high school districts.

Diagnostic exams such as the Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project, Measures of Academic Progress, Renaissance Math, and Mathematics Assessment Resource Service are also used in placement decisions.

The new law calls for the removal of teacher recommendations in placement decisions, unless these recommendations are used to advance students.

High - performance districts predominately rely on test scores and student math GPA in their placement decisions.

The study found significant differences in course placement correlated with students» ethnicity or parental education — potentially indicating teachers» unconscious bias in placement decisions.

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No person should rely on any information in this website, but should rely exclusively on the confidential private placement memoranda in making an investment decision.

LOL it's priceless how many critics of editorial decisions such as font size and page placement you get in these comments, as if «front page» means the same thing today as it did when they printed this stuff on actual paper...

You'll have to make some difficult decisions about the classroom placement of your twins, whether they should be together in the same class or separated in different classes.

However, unlike adoptions in the past, where expectant parents had no say in the decision - making process and never knew what became of their babies or had a chance to explain their decision to them, in open adoption you can take a hands - on role in many of the key decisions both before and after your baby's placement.

Although the majority of placements involve single women, in some cases the child's father may also be actively involved in the decision - making process.

In previous years EFA has asked local authorities to set in advance the dates by which they planned to make decisions on placements, agree contracts, and make payments for students known to them and to monitor their own delivery against these planIn previous years EFA has asked local authorities to set in advance the dates by which they planned to make decisions on placements, agree contracts, and make payments for students known to them and to monitor their own delivery against these planin advance the dates by which they planned to make decisions on placements, agree contracts, and make payments for students known to them and to monitor their own delivery against these plans.

«Mr. DiNapoli has an obligation to let the public know about his role in the meetings in question, his thinking behind the decision to make the investments under investigation, and about any other politically - connected placement agents his office may have met with and accommodated.»

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

«Anybody who had headed any organisation in the country, whether as a Minister of State or Chief Executive of a public institution would have taken hundreds of decisions which could easily make one a subject of investigations whether legitimately or otherwise but this should not necessarily warrant placement in the public domain since we are all clear about its near irredeemable effect on reputations.

Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., in a letter Monday to district superintendents statewide, said the state «neither requires nor encourages districts to make promotion or placement decisions using student performance on state assessments in grades 3 - 8.»

The state Board of Regents, which sets education policy, already decided in February to advise school districts against using results of Common Core tests in decisions regarding students» promotion and class placement.

The law includes an indefinite prohibition on test scores being used «solely or primarily» in decisions about student promotion and placement, and strikes the grades from students» permanent records.

Leadership in both houses of the state Legislature support a two - year moratorium on using Common Core - aligned test scores to evaluate teachers and principals or to make decisions about student placement or promotion, a plan supported by teachers» unions.

In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two - year moratorium that would decouple Common Core - aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student - placement decisions.

To help with placement decisions, we are including the weight of the bird feeder in pounds on our chart.

In addition, individuals should be provided with accurate information regarding career placement data so that they can make their own informed decisions before they have invested too much time in their education and traininIn addition, individuals should be provided with accurate information regarding career placement data so that they can make their own informed decisions before they have invested too much time in their education and traininin their education and training.

We are creating a new standard in placement stability for foster children through the use of data - informed placement decision - making and a research - driven software matching system.

We are creating a new standard in placement stability for foster children through the use of data - informed placement decision - making and a research - driven software matching system.

The decision noted that IDEA requires only that a school district demonstrate progress toward meeting the goals of an IEP, rather than assuring that progress can be generalized in the home and other environments, and thus the district was not responsible for the costs of a residential placement.

In a 6 - 0 vote, board members approved a plan to transfer responsibility for overseeing student - evaluation and - placement decisions from the central board of education to subdistrict superintendents and school principals.

But unlike the procedures established under IDEA, school - voucher laws give parents the right to select a private placement without having to convince public school officials of the need for such services, to say nothing of the legal costs of proving to a hearing officer, or a state court judge, that the decision of the school district was in error.

As the United States Supreme Court noted in its recent Forest Grove School District decision, pursuing private placement through the legal system is ««ponderous» and therefore inadequate to ensure that a school's failure to provide a [free and appropriate public education] is remedied with the speed necessary to avoid detriment to the child's education.»

Cottom notes that among all the students she interviewed, «no one talked about the context of their college choices in ways that would suggest more accurate or clear job - placement data would have changed their circumstances or decisions.»

While the enrollment numbers «settled out,» students engaged in team - building activities and took diagnostic assessments that further informed placement decisions.

Assessment affects decisions about grades, placement, advancement, instructional needs, curriculum, and, in some cases, funding.

SDP fellow alum Emily Mohr, who remained in LAUSD after her two - year placement, has continued to help develop the way that data informs district policy and decision making.

in the case of an unaccompanied youth, ensure that the local educational agency liaison assists in placement or enrollment decisions under this paragraph, including coordination with the committee on special education for students with disabilities pursuant to section 200.4 of this Title, considers the views of such unaccompanied youth, and provides notice to such youth of the right to appeal pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 11432 (g)(3)(E)(ii)(Public Law 107 - 110, title X, section 1032, 115 STAT.

In these instances, while charter schools participate in the placement process, they do not always make the final placement decisions for students with disabilitieIn these instances, while charter schools participate in the placement process, they do not always make the final placement decisions for students with disabilitiein the placement process, they do not always make the final placement decisions for students with disabilities.

The new law applies only to 9th - grade placement, but acceleration decisions are starting in some districts, including Cupertino Union School District, in 5th grade, leading to accelerated classes in middle school, and as late as 11th grade in other districts, such as San Francisco Unified.

The district collaborative is also looking into using scores on interim Smarter Balanced tests given in the spring of 8th grade, or, if available in time for placement decisions, the end - of - year 8th - grade Smarter Balanced tests.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

This bill would prevent educators from using PARCC scores, «to determine a student's placement in a gifted and talented program, another program or intervention, grade promotion, as the State graduation proficiency test, any other school or district - level decision that affects students, or as part of any evaluation rubric submitted to the Commissioner of Education for approval.»

Supporters of the new law hope that districts will apply the same principles of fairness and objectivity they will implement for 9th grade under the new law in whatever grades placement decisions are made.

In some schools, for example, teachers used diagnostic and formative assessment data to make decisions about student placement in remedial reading or math programs, or in school - based tutoring programIn some schools, for example, teachers used diagnostic and formative assessment data to make decisions about student placement in remedial reading or math programs, or in school - based tutoring programin remedial reading or math programs, or in school - based tutoring programin school - based tutoring programs.

New legislation passed in 2017 made changes to the timing of the high school assessment, so the placement agreement language is currently being re-assessed by the system, with a final decision about changes expected by June 1, 2018.

A resource parent does not have sole decision - making authority to decide on or change a school placement for the child in their care.

«The decision in Boone County Board of Education v. N.W., as it stands, would force cash - strapped school districts to bear the high costs of private placements during litigation, even when a court ultimately rules that the district has made FAPE available in a public school setting,» said NSBA General Counsel Francisco M. Negrón Jr. «The lower court's decision sets a terrible precedent that prolongs due process and court proceedings and discourages informal resolution of special education disputes through mediated settlement.

The report added, «Test scores should not be used as a sole determinant in decisions such as the prevention of advancement to the next grade, graduation eligibility, or placement in a remedial course.»

Principals must use data, report and explain data to internal and external audiences, in support of data - driven decisions, which influence instruction and stimulate change.Assessment and Accountability Standardized testing is one element in the complete assessment of student progress, but no single test should serve as the sole criteria for a student's advancement in grade level, graduation or placement or serve as a punishment or reward for schools or those who staff them.

«Thus far they haven't even proven they can keep track of our son or keep him safe, and yet they claim everything is just fine and that he is progressing,» said Masucci, who called on the council to investigate whether the superintendent's office is making placement decisions in the best interest of students.

District officials will monitor the results as they come in, but they will only use the scores with other measures to make decisions such as student placement, said Xanthi Pinkerton, an Elk Grove spokeswoman.

Don — I would contend that the greater damage is not in lost time or money but rather with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.