Sentences with phrase «local discretion»

Local Control Funding Formula: Led by Governor Jerry Brown (D) and advocacy organizations such as Children Now, California enacted a historic Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013 that targets considerable resources to high - need students and enables far greater local discretion over the use of funds.

While those students must normally pass the STAAR math and reading exams to be promoted to the next grade level, the commissioner granted leeway this year, making a third test administration optional and allowing local discretion on whether a student who fails the exams should advance.

Mary Lynch, an Albany Law School professor and former prosecutor, painted the program as bad law enforcement policy that subverts local discretion.

• Introduces incentives for districts to change the number of schools that receive Title I. Typically, any school with at least 35 % poverty is eligible for Title I, but there is substantial local discretion and difference in practice as to how many eligible schools are served.

Obviously, the latter two points (i.e., # 2 and # 3) demonstrate steps in the right direction: # 2 to be a bit more reasonable about whether teachers who don't actually teach students in the subject areas should be held accountable for out - of - subject scores (although I'd vote for 0 % weight here) and # 3 to handover to districts more local discretion and control over how their teacher evaluations are conducted (although VAMs still must be a part).

How an MLS chooses to implement MLS Policies 7.42 and 7.43 is up to their own local discretion.

NAR has been working as a member of the Transportation for America coalition to shape the next authorization bill to ensure that (1) federal transportation money is spent on projects that serve all users, and (2) policy changes are implemented to increase local discretion and improve the prospects of alternative modes.

Determined the LEAs had local discretion in establishing specific policies appropriate for the schools under their jurisdiction provided that those policies include all the required elements specified in the act

Let me raise just one: if localism means anything, is it right not to allow them local discretion over planning practice on, say, ground floor home extensions?

Local discretion can be used to assign a weight for the evaluation leadership instrument as a component of the practice score for school leaders.

---- «It is not enough for standards to emphasize the skills students should learn but leave the content to local discretion.»

Rescinding federal guidance leaves suspensions and expulsions up to local discretion, regardless of the disproportionate impact on students of color.