Sentences with phrase «measure a school district»

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

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Districts complete a self - reported School Wellness Policy Implementation Assessment Tool, approved by the state Education Data Assessment Committee that measures the level of policy implementation.

These may sound like extreme measures for an afternoon errand, but there is only one office supply store in our town and it services the entire school district; over the years I have learned to contingency plan and pack.

Prior to the November election, Cary Park District officials promised residents that if they voted down referendum measures seeking to fund a proposed swim center and ballfields on 80 acres near Cary - Grove High School, they'd drop a condemnation suit for the land.

Whether your multiples are in an Early Intervention program or receiving therapy through the school district, their development is measured by how well they meet goals and objectives.

An alternate plan to build in Clarendon Hills» Prospect Park won citizen approval at the polls, but construction has been beset by disputes between the School District and the Park District over whether District 181 abided by its agreement in site development, especially measures to avert possible flooding in the area.

We don't have nearly enough experience with student performance measures to put as much weight on them as we are doing in the District and several other school districts.

It was a clean sweep for North Shore referendum measures, with three school districts winning at the polls Tuesday and Glenview Park District voters approving two new swimming pools.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

Glen Ellyn School District 41 will be going out for bid soon on constructing new classrooms at elementary schools, after board members approved the measure Monday.

Cuomo launched the School District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operaSchool District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operaschool districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operations.

The measure would establish a school district and local government property tax levy cap that would limit tax levy growth to the lesser of four percent or 120 percent of the annual increase in the consumer price index.

It also comes as school districts and local governments are budgeting within a tax cap with the lowest allowable limit in the levy increase since the measure first took effect in 2012.

«Hopefully encouraging districts to invest in things like school resource officers and other security measures like door locks and cameras and so forth,» said Maziarz.

«Obviously with the tragedy we saw with the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut I think it's important that school districts be encouraged to invest in security measures.

Nolan said the measure does not preclude individual school districts from using the test score results as part of their teacher evaluations, if everyone at the school agrees.

At the end of a debate over a measure to institute a monitor in the troubled East Ramapo school district, for example, Silver voted against the bill, which passed.

School officials have their hands full with the current outbreak of the flu, but measures taken to prevent the spread of the illness appear to be working the Rochester City School District and suburban schools.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

Flanagan's measure limits annual growth of property taxes levied by local governments and school districts to two percent or the rate of inflation - whichever is less.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

Local school districts and their unions may negotiate a second measure of student learning that would lead to other scoring outcomes.

The measure also would require charters — publicly funded but privately managed schools — to enroll special - education students and English - language learners at rates comparable to traditional public schools in their districts.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

Mount Vernon — Mount Vernon City School District Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton implemented tight security measures at Mount Vernon City schools, for Tuesday, May 1st via district wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on sociaDistrict Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton implemented tight security measures at Mount Vernon City schools, for Tuesday, May 1st via district wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on sociadistrict wide email as a result of a disgruntled employee who has made inappropriate comments on social media.

«The Ghana Education Service must also step up its monitoring activities and ensure that enrollment data captured by schools and district directorates are consistent with each other as a measure to block possible leakages and engender effective and efficient planning and budgeting,» it said.

Russell, a Democrat from Theresa, has introduced legislation that will adjust the way school districts» wealth is measured.

The NYS Senate however, voted them down and instead «passed a series of so - called school safety measures that, among other steps, would require police officers at schools in New York City and provide grants to districts outside the city to hire retired law enforcement as school resource officers,» as reported by The NY Daily News.

The final measures passed Sunday by the Senate provide for the flow of funds to state agencies, money to be sent to school districts, public college tuition to be cut or raised for students depending on their family incomes, and non-fiscal matters, including the legalization of ride - hailing upstate.

But the fallout from the budget's education measures which Cuomo pushed for continues in Albany: Lawmakers are considering a variety of means to reduce standardized testing in schools and the Board of Regents is pushing back a deadline for school districts to adopt the new teacher performance criteria for those demonstrating hardships.

The measure also comes as school districts across the state on Tuesday reported high numbers of students choosing to opt out of the current round of English Language Arts standardized tests that will run for the next two weeks.

Under the measure approved in the budget, school districts must adopt the evaluation criteria by Nov. 15 or risk losing a boost in state education aid.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

The concern is that without serious changes to how local governments and school districts are forced to spend their money, which the cap is meant to address, the measure will be overridden.

The measures were requested city officials and state lawmakers who represent the area as its school district seeks to plug yet another budget deficit.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Enacting the evaluation measures by November will give school districts a planned boost in education aid.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

School districts were previously exempt under the cap from capital expenses, but BOCES costs were not at the time included when the measure was first approved.

Why is it you would use the governor's extensive budgeting powers to force an indefensible, costly, laughable, and quickly repudiated teacher evaluation system onto local school districts but you will not utilize the same budgeting power to force anti-corruption measures onto Flanagan and Heastie?

Nevertheless, tax cap supporters want to make the measure a permanent one for local governments and school districts.

The coalition also wants school districts with 51 - 100 or more employees to continue to participate in an experience - rated health care consortium or trust, a measure she said will save school districts and taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To avert a situation where New York is forced to return hundreds of millions of sorely - needed federal dollars, we urge you to consider introducing «shot clock» style measures to ensure that all school districts will fully implement the state's new teacher evaluation framework in accordance with the Race to the Top timeline.

Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.

The Senate and Assembly passed the bill that had been introduced Monday after lawmakers and the East Ramapo School Board agreed on measures to be contained in the legislation, which sends $ 3 million to the district to restore student programs.

The Plattsburgh City Council approved a plan that will allow for the Plattsburgh City School District to share services and explore cost - saving measures with the City of Plattsburgh.

A state official said the taxes from any school or municipal district whose proposed budget feel within the state's tax cap would be combined and measured against income.

The Assembly had yet to act on a bill to create a monitor in the East Ramapo School District, a package of bills designed to combat heroin addiction and a measure to increase breast cancer screening.

Students from across Tonko's district attended the event, asking Tonko, D - Amsterdam, what measures he would push to make schools safer and reduce shootings.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.