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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The Arlington Heights Park District is testing the water to see whether the community will back a tax - referendum measure next spring to repair aging swimming pools and other outdated facilities.

But the April 3 ballot measure asking voters to pay for the last 12 - acre parcel of the Dole estate and its 150 - year - old Italianate house has some residents questioning whether the Crystal Lake Park District belongs in the historic preservation business.

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.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

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.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

We measured expansion of charters across districts: first, by whether the district had at least one operating charter school in the 2003 — 04 school year and, second, by the fraction of public school students enrolled in charter schools during the 2003 — 04 school year.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

But measured school quality often varies dramatically within a school district, and therefore it is important to know whether individual schools differ in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

The three - year survey of 3,000 teachers in seven school districts by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation found that the controversial method of measuring student academic growth, known as value - added, was a valid indicator of whether teachers helped boost student achievement.

While the metric to measure the district's success to this goal is clear, it's not certain whether DPS's school performance framework, or its rubric to determine which schools are performing, works.

California test scores: State to release results at 10 a.m. KPCC: The tests in English and math measure whether school districts meet state education standards.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

And so, sans meaningful accountability — or, put another way, whether the district takes responsibility for and responds to unacceptably low student achievement, as well as other measures of school performance and culture — parents will make other choices.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

If their request is granted, student scores on Smarter Balanced assessments this year would be reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as they will be to parents and schools in California, but would not be used to measure whether a school or district has made Adequate Yearly Progress.

Whether called evaluations, appraisals or assessments, nearly every district in the U.S. and Canada measures educator performance, but few say their efforts result in improved teacher effectiveness.

The bill ensures that every district is using the same definition when measuring student absences and requires that all School Report Cards include data on chronic absenteeism so that the public can be apprised of whether schools in their communities are struggling with too many students missing too much school.

Because the tax measure was written vaguely (it says «any school within the district»), the Board is suggesting that it's open for legal interpretation whether or not students in county - authorized schools should be allowed to benefit.

The tests in English and math measure whether school districts meet state education standards.

Empirical studies can determine whether the measures appear to be confounded for teachers in the grade levels, schools, districts, and states that were studied, but they can't rule out different conclusions in other settings.

So far, there are no concrete district data to show whether the more play - based kindergarten program is improving academic achievement as measured by standardized state tests.

Finally, districts should monitor student achievement, along with scores for teacher observations, to determine whether the use of value - added measures in evaluations is doing what is most important — improving teaching and learning.

This process can determine whether states should scale up measures for school classifications or whether states and districts should use them at the local - level to inform continuous improvement.

«But,» says Miron, «on criterion - referenced tests — those that measure whether or not students meet prescribed state standards — Edison students» gains or losses mirror those of students in the comparison groups examined, which included students from surrounding public school districts.»

This could be a big change, depending on the weights given to income and property wealth and depending on whether «family income» for the district as a whole is used or «student poverty» is the measure.

While I think it's time for other districts and the Colorado Department of Education to learn from Denver's work, we need to have a series of discussions about how to have more school performance data provided to families and how / whether this information is rolled up into a single measure of «school quality.»