Sentences with phrase «new federal assessment»

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HAZELTON — A federal environmental assessment report that concluded the proposed New Prosperity open - pit mine would have significant adverse effects for the Tsilhqot» in is a condemnation of the B.C. Liberals approach to Aboriginal rights and title, says Stikine MLA Doug...

Victoria — Changes to the federal environmental assessment process, along with deep budget cuts, will weaken environmental protection in British Columbia say the B.C. New Democrats.

It is unclear whether federal acting secretary of education John King — New York's former state education c ommissioner who championed the Common Core and helped usher in the use of teacher evaluations tied to state assessments under No Child Left Behind and the federal Race To The Top grant program — will give his blessing.

ALBANY — A new type of assessment system could be in the works for New York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in minew type of assessment system could be in the works for New York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in miNew York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in minew Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in miNew York in mind.

We expect that — as the federal Department of State's assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline showed — new fossil fuels and climate action are incompatible.»

In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has examined whether this new drug for MS offers an added benefit over the appropriate comparator therapy specified by the Federal Joint Committee (G - BA).

Within days of the accident in Tulare, federal, state and county public health officials turned to a new assessment tool in an effort to reduce chemical accidents.

In Switzerland, Federal Council member Doris Leuthard announced today (English version) that the ongoing process for finding a site for three new nuclear power plants was on hold pending new safety assessments.

CORD is pleased that the mandate for the new federal National Pharmacare Advisory Council includes assessment of international models and establishment of expert reference groups.

This message comes through even in the area where CCSSO is asking for new and important flexibility from federal rules (permitting states to allow districts to pilot new approaches to assessment).

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

Also in this issue: an analysis of open educational resources and what the federal role should be in facilitating their adoption; an assessment of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first few years in office in New York City; and an expert debate on the merits of two different approaches to designing state accountability systems.

But, under pressure from the federal government, most states tied the new assessments to accountability at a time when teachers» practice and local curriculum had not yet become fully aligned with new expectations.

The report examines how new state and federal strategies are transforming the assessment of school performance and reshaping the consequences for poor results.

Moreover, the Obama Administration has suggested making federal Title I funding contingent upon adoption of national standards — a move that would provide no new funding for standards and assessment implementation but would effectively mandate their adoption by withholding federal funding for low - income schools.

Camera of U.S. News reports that Bushaw isn't ruling out a move that would draw NAEP closer to the new Common Core standards, though he cautions that the federal assessment needs to maintain distance from other academic guidelines.

Duncan on Tuesday announced that schools that do the field test for the new Common Core assessment next spring can get a one - year waiver from also giving current state standardized tests required by federal law.

* The state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program, which may give it the opportunity to use a new assessment system in place of state tests for accountability purposes, Politico New York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updatesnew assessment system in place of state tests for accountability purposes, Politico New York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updatesNew York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updates...

Includes updates on state and federal legislation, reports on test misuse and efforts to stop it and profiles of promising new assessment systems.

New York state's approach reflects a 1997 federal law that mandates the participation of special education students in statewide assessments, under the assumption that...

Each state is required to develop its own plan to comply with the new federal law and address issues including school accountability, student assessment, support for struggling schools, and other issues.

The Gordon commission also urges that the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — the federal government's centerpiece education law, currently called the No Child Left Behind Act — encourage states and districts to experiment with new, even «radically different» forms of assessments.

NSBA not only commends the Subcommittee for passing a bill that supports disadvantaged students and special education, but also for including a new general provision on local governance, stating that the Federal government can not mandate or incentivize in any way the adoption of any specific standards or assessments, including Common Core.

The Local Wellness Committee will update or modify this LWP based on the results of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's annual self - assessment, the USDA triennial administrative review, and on other variables, including if / when HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's health priorities change; the community's health needs change; the wellness goals are met; new health science arises, new technology emerges; and new federal or state guidance / standards are issued.

Frederick M. Hess, a resident scholar and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, blamed the widespread testing problems in part on federal pressure to quickly introduce new assessments based on the Common Core State Standards in many states, and other new college and career - ready standards in others.

New Hampshire has led the way by gaining federal approval to forego state standardized testing for a growing number of districts and replace them with teacher - generated, curriculum - embedded local and common performance assessments (Performance Assessment for Competency Education, or PACE).

Many states are beginning to review their assessment and accountability systems to comply with the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

Learn about the changes in federal requirements under ESSA in assessments, accountability, professional development, and others, and how educators can influence the decisions about new state and local policies.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]

With testing increasingly in the news — from the release of state test scores to the federal Department of Education's recent announcement in support of short delays for teacher evaluation using assessment growth — now is the time set a new course.

The federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) establishes new opportunities for building and supporting birth - to - third - grade systems at both state and local levels, enabling states to integrate B - 3rd strategies into their new focus on equity, accountability, assessment, professional learning and school improvement.

The law was passed in 2015 and in 2017 states drafted their plans, which included new accountability systems based on multiple measures that include factors other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges in order to tailor support and intervention when needed; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Because the new law does away with so many federal mandates on everything from assessment, accountability and evaluation, state legislatures will be playing a decisive role in determining how ESSA is implemented.

These new tests will replace assessments in English language arts and mathematics in grades 3 — 8 and high school that are currently in use within state and federal accountability systems.

A new «equity score card» would provide school - level information to parents on a school's climate; educational opportunity offerings (such as AP, full - day kindergarten, or gifted programming); the number of assessments required; and the school's funding by source (state, local, and federal).

The value - added assessments of teachers — which use improvements in student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness — has grown in popularity across the country with support from the federal Department of Education, which has tied teacher evaluations to the Race to the Top state - grant program, reports the New York Times.

Through the infusion of federal dollars, educators and school administrators developed new anchors and focused on a Rigor and Relevance Framework, which is a tool to examine curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

As a member of the New Leaders Policy Advisory Committee, James has advocated for maintaining annual federal assessment requirements in the recently authorized Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), with accountability focused on student growth.

The new guidance explains how states can leverage federal funding to reduce testing and encourages states and districts to be more transparent with assessment data, collaborating with educators, administrators, and students» families when possible.

A new law changing the state's standardized testing program, Assembly Bill 484, which Torlakson and Gov. Jerry Brown supported and that sparked a dispute with the federal government, required only that students be given one of the assessments, although it didn't explicitly prevent Torlakson from offering both tests.

For states not yet ready to develop assessment instruments similar to those used throughout the PACE districts, they can consider a compromise position offered by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which New Hampshire has also adopted.

The CORE team found failures in the No Child Left Behind model; districts adopting the new assessment tools received a federal waiver from some of its requirements last year.

That's why Duncan announced in June that he was giving the 37 states plus the District of Columbia, which had won federal waivers from the most egregious mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, an extra year to implement teacher evaluations linked to new assessments that are supposed to be aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

This brief offers a new conception for secondary teacher preparation that ensures candidates are able to prepare students for college and career success after high school, encourages a shift to the skills, knowledge, and competencies candidates should have once they become classroom teachers of record, highlights the need for improved teacher performance assessments and data systems, and contemplates how federal policy can support the realization of these goals.

Soon, that test will be the new Smarter Balanced online assessment, one of two national tests, developed with federal funding, that are pegged to the new standards.

She is deeply involved with the New Hampshire Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) project, where she leads much of the design and analysis to support the technical quality of the innovative assessment system — including the validity and comparability of the annual determinations for federal accountability.

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

A new plan announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan offers states a one - year reprieve from federal assessment and accountability requirements as they transition to the Common Core State Standards.

WASHINGTON — The Federal Housing Administration will stop approving new mortgages on properties encumbered by assessments used to finance and update heating and cooling systems, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said Thursday.