Sentences with phrase «mandated proficiency test»

The employer mandated a proficiency test before hiring.

Received commendation for all students earning passing scores on state - mandated proficiency test in mathematics.

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It said that Theranos's tests results have been wildly inaccurate, and that the company may have conducted its proficiency testing — a government - mandated quality - control procedure — incorrectly.

Success also outlined its academic goals for all its students in its application, as mandated by SUNY application requirements: the network is aiming for 75 percent proficiency rates for second - year students in both math and English on state tests.

The U.S. Department of Education so far has granted conditional waivers to 26 states from mandates such as the 2013 - 14 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests and the NCLB law's teacher - quality requirements.

In many elementary schools, third grade marks the start of letter grades, standardized testing, and state - mandated reading - proficiency requirements.

[4] Although the ESSA would end the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandates under NCLB, which require that all students in all states make «adequate» annual progress toward universal proficiency in math and reading or have the state risk federal sanctions, the proposal would keep the annual testing structure in place.

A school «s student achievement was represented by the percentage of students meeting or exceeding the proficiency level established by the state on mandated literacy and math tests.

Although my example is both fictitious and extreme, it illustrates an important point: In real - world school evaluations, students will often improve on state - mandated tests, sometimes dramatically, but the improved scores will not influence a school's AYP status because those students» scores don't cross the proficiency point.

The law mandated that every child in every school would take standardized tests in reading and math from grades three through eight and would achieve «proficiency» by the year 2014.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

State regulations mandate what are called Academic Intervention Services (AIS) for students in grades 3 - 8 who score below the threshold for proficiency on either the English Language Arts or mathematics tests.

Our inspectors who deliver radon gas tests are required to complete a 16 - hour course approved by the National Radon Proficiency Program (NRPP) even if the test is not state - mandated.

Our inspectors who deliver radon gas tests are required to complete a 16 - hour course approved by the National Radon Proficiency Program (NRPP) even if the test is not state - mandated.