Sentences with phrase «managed federal school improvement»

Prior to NCTR, Sarah worked at the Colorado Department of Education as a Title I program specialist and managed federal school improvement grants.

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The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), envisions a powerful role for states in managing the evidence base behind school improvement efforts.

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.

At the start of the 21st century, new state and federal accountability policies — with their widely publicized results on standardized tests and penalties for schools that failed to meet improvement targets — led central - office administrators to closely manage schools.