Sentences with phrase «lowest state test scores»

Naperville Community Unit School District 203, generally a high - scoring district, includes some schools with low state test scores in certain groups, particularly black students.

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Elia's action reflected the state's continuing concern with low test scores and other problems that leave Hempstead as the most troubled of Long Island's 124 districts.

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

It comes amid concerns over low test scores for many of the state's students, and harsh rhetoric from Governor Cuomo, saying he wants a «death penalty» option for dealing with failing schools.

«Proposals that are supposed to reduce costs by making it easier for the state to hire and transfer state employees would allow state agencies to bypass the best qualified candidates to hire or promote individuals with lower scores on competitive tests or who haven't even taken the tests.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

In his State of the State address, Mr. Cuomo argued that rooting half of a teacher's evaluation in student test scores and the other half on observation is the only way to improve stubbornly low pupil performance rates.

among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state.

The school has shown low scores on mandated state tests, but many argue that new school leadership and increasing student performance should give the school a reprieve.

Syracuse students» test scores were also low, with 10.4 percent of students» scores in third - through eighth - grade being rated «proficient» versus the state's 39.1 percent average.

Irrational alarm over the low (but meaningful) scores on last spring's state tests — the first to be aligned to the standards — continues to grow.

Syracuse city school students also score low on state tests.

The Syracuse schools in the I - Zone have some of the lowest test scores in the state and are on the city's west side.

The state committed to adopting the Common Core standards, tying teacher evaluations to test scores, turning around or closing low - performing schools and increasing the number of charter schools, among other things.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

The Ninth Grade College Preparatory Academy is a state - ordered spin - off of Sam Houston High School, whose test scores have historically been so low that the state labeled the school «academically unacceptable» for six straight years.

Drawing from math test scores from PISA 2009 in which the United States performed lower than the OECD average, the report argues that while demand for STEM labor is predicted to increase over the next few decades, a shortage of STEM labor in the United States, along with inadequate performance in science, math, and reading compared to other countries, endangers U.S. future competitiveness and innovation.

For instance, data may show that the students who pass through one teacher's class consistently score lower on state achievement tests than the students in another teacher's class.

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

These schools classified low - performing students as eligible for special education services to keep them from lowering the school's rating (special education students could take the 10th - grade state test, but their scores did not count toward the rating).

Because these assessments are likely to include some tasks that many students had little exposure to prior to 2010, and because the expectations for student performance represented by the standards are considerably higher than in many states» previous standards, the test scores are expected to be lower than in the past.

NCLB required that states test students in math and reading each year, that average student performance be publicized for every school, and that schools with persistently low test scores face an escalating series of sanctions.

Since the Texas state test was a test of basic skills, and the accountability metric is based on pass rates, schools had strong incentives to focus on helping lower - scoring students.

Since 1997, states have picked up the pace of their standards - based reforms, and test scores for minority and low - income students, in particular, have improved.

(Because the state's math test was more difficult than its reading test, low math scores were almost always the main obstacle to improving a school's rating.)

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

When states set the bar too low — by setting a low cut - score to demonstrate proficiency on a state test — it conveys a false sense of student achievement to kids, parents and teachers This website will help parents see how their states are doing and what they can do to get involved.

The scores used to determine whether students demonstrated proficiency on the test were set too low, resulting in unexpectedly high passing rates for the state's elementary and middle school students.

So far, high scores on relatively low - bar state tests have served to assure middle - class parents that their traditional public schools are good and their real - estate investments are safe.

Because our students» test scores went up significantly in 2000 and 2001, all the employees at my school received an extra $ 600 last year, and a $ 50 bonus this year (the low amount this year being due to severe state budget shortages).

No one should be surprised that NACSA's criteria have no relationship to their own metric for school quality — test score growth — given how well Arizona charter schools appear to be doing even while NACSA gives the state a very low score for charter quality.

One of those responsibilities is to meet, along with my assistant principal, with each of my Level 1's [students scoring at the lower levels on the state tests] and their parents to discuss test scores and the importance of raising those scores.

Recall that New York State was the poster child for the «proficiency illusion,» an alarming and dishonest dumbing - down of state tests and lower cut scState was the poster child for the «proficiency illusion,» an alarming and dishonest dumbing - down of state tests and lower cut scstate tests and lower cut scores.

In our study, the teachers with larger gains on low - cost state math tests also had students with larger gains on the Balanced Assessment in Mathematics, a more - expensive - to - score test designed to measure students» conceptual understanding of mathematics.

After teachers like Joseph - Charles and Philkhana began applying the Rutgers techniques in the classroom, students showed more interest in math, and the math test scores at what were among the lowest - performing schools in the state began to soar.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

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California is investing $ 800 million dollars in a program that lowers the number of students in the state's K - 3 classrooms — and will hopefully raise students» sinking test scores.

To the contrary, when schools serving similar populations were compared across the state of Indiana, and poverty was controlled for, those schools with relatively low suspension rates had higher, not lower test scores

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

States that oversee health education and health services have higher test scores and lower dropout rates.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

For example, the state plans to continue identifying some high - poverty schools as «priority» or «focus» schools based on low test scores or wide achievement gaps.