Sentences with phrase «local school test scores»

The high level of interest in local school test scores raises some interesting issues:

Not exact matches

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

Wednesday's decision states that although 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation can still be based on test scores, half of those tests must be chosen by local school districts through collective bargaining with their union.

While unions have said they worry that teachers could be unfairly judged based on their students» test results, the scoring for students and teachers is quite different — students get an objective standardized test score, while teachers are evaluated under multipart programs that are developed by local teachers unions and school leaders.

WBFO»S Eileen Buckley reports on reaction to low test scores in Buffalo with school leaders and other local officials.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

Sacramento — California's high - school seniors improved their scores this year in all areas of the state's basic - skills test, owing in large part, state and local testing officials say, to the availability of $ 14.4 million in incentive bonuses for schools.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Reform superintendents are guaranteeing higher test scores to placate the politicians and the local school boards.

The low test scores and the number of students who were not prepared for high school urged us to research and connect with the two local elementary schools.

Local educators did not mourn the death of CAP, since many local schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test scLocal educators did not mourn the death of CAP, since many local schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test sclocal schools had received negative publicity as a result of their low test scores.

When researchers examined the prior achievement - test scores of students transferring to charter schools, they found that those scores were near or below the local district or state average.

In this year's study, 48 % say the local school district should decide what to do with a school that has had failing test scores for a number of years, rather than the state education agency (32 %) or the governor (15 %).

Without giving too much away, the novel tells the story of a college - educated white family in Brooklyn whose condo is zoned for a local school whose demographics and test scores have not kept up with the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood.

In addition, the law creates flexibility for state and local leaders to think creatively — beyond just test scores and graduation rates — about how to measure school quality.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

More Than a Score members will also pass petitions against the misuse and overuse of testing in CPS at the event and later in the day at local schools.

The care we give to buying a vacuum cleaner is absent when we consider the test scores released to the news media by the states and local school districts.

To do this, I ask whether parental income matters more for children's educational outcomes, such as test scores and college completion, in local areas where there is stronger transmission of parental income to children's incomes, as would be expected if the school system were a key link in this transmission.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

And he walks because childhood matters, because children come first and we have to tell our nation's leaders that our children, their teachers and local public schools are more than test scores.

But in Los Angeles, whose local newspaper calculated and released teachers» grades based on student test scores in 2010, Villaraigosa and his schools superintendent John Deasy are enthusiastic about such reforms.

While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolSchool Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolschool rating system, the state can take the schoolschool over.

It has also suspended its Academic Performance Index, which allowed parents to see how the test scores achieved by their local school compare with scores at other schools.

The poll also found that Americans are «ambivalent» about comparing test scores in their local schools with other districts, states and nations — part of the original intent of accountability test scores under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Obama sees the test score data and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independent of local school boards, as solutions to the problems that plague public education.

Today, elected officials of all political stripes and advocates for a range of school policies scrutinize the results from international exams and comparisons with the intensity that, a decade ago, would have been reserved for state and local test scores.

Officials for the school district say they worked jointly with the local teachers» union to agree on how state - generated test - score data would be interpreted, and took pains to make the evaluation instrument clear, to help make those finer distinctions in performance.

In all three districts, low test scores and fiscal mismanagement led to the replacement of the superintendent, central office administrators, and the local school board by a new, state - appointed superintendent with broad powers to implement reforms.

«If Washington, D.C., went to one extreme,» Barnum writes, «in focusing on test - driven accountability policies, as some argue, California has gone to the other: placing a lengthy pause on school accountability, devolving control to local districts, eliminating certain data systems and declining to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores.»

Yes, your local public school sure could use $ 24k as a donation, but they are not only missing out on that; another thing they could use from you which you are taking away is your child's high test scores.

There are many reasons for the lower scores: the new standards being taught changed and are being implemented unevenly across school districts (Warren and Murphy 2014; McLaughlin, Glaab and Carrasco 2014, Harrington 2016); the definition of having met the standards changed; and the testing method changed (London and Warren 2015).1 While it is true that these assessments are in many ways not comparable (indeed, legislation passed in 2013 prohibits the CDE and local education agencies from doing so), 2 it is useful to understand which districts and schools are doing consistently well on both tests, and whether districts doing well on the SBAC English language arts (ELA) also do well on the SBAC math.

Charter - school advocates cite Mastery as a golden model of «no excuses» education within a local charter sector that often suffers from mixed test scores and financial corruption.

The governor and the state Legislature decided that the local school board wasn't up to the task of rebuilding, given a history of corruption scandals, turnover in the superintendent's office and rock - bottom test scores.

It may drive down test scores or earn a good school a bad reputation in the local community.

An editorial in the local paper said, «There's a new sense of optimism, possibility, pride, and purpose permeating Springfield schools this year, where the hard work of education reform is beginning to pay off» («Springfield Schools See Big Boost in Test Scores, Morale,»schools this year, where the hard work of education reform is beginning to pay off» («Springfield Schools See Big Boost in Test Scores, Morale,»Schools See Big Boost in Test Scores, Morale,» 2013).

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

The big question for Smarter Balanced test results is not the delay in release of the scores, or the relationships to old STAR data on the CDE website, but rather the quality of the Smarter Balanced scores now being provided to local districts and schools.

An increasing number of states are passing legislation mandating annual evaluations of teachers and school leaders, based upon multiple measures including state test scores, local assessments, classroom observations, climate surveys and other factors.

Standardized test results form the backbone of the school performance scores that determine whether a school can be taken over by the state Recovery School District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stayschool performance scores that determine whether a school can be taken over by the state Recovery School District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stayschool can be taken over by the state Recovery School District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can staySchool District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stayschool has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stay open.

About 15 school boards oppose provisions making them share local funding with charter schools, and the Florida Education Association is suing over a bonus program that uses a teacher's score on standardized tests like the SAT in its formula.

The short version of what she wants to do now is this — double down on test scores and strip away the power of local school boards to negotiate the majority of the evaluation plan.

Using panel data from North Carolina, we exploit the state's unique system of financing its local public schools to identify the causal effects of teacher assistants and other staff on student test scores in math and reading and other outcomes.