Sentences with phrase «new school accountability system»

A glaring flaw in the state's new school accountability system calls on schools to count as absent only those students who miss entire days.

West Virginia's new school accountability system includes a well - balanced approach that relies on multiple measures of evaluation for schools.

Under the new federal education law, states are submitting new school accountability systems to Washington; 17 states submitted plans in the first round.

(Colo.) State education officials from across the country are engaged in pulling together new school accountability systems as required under the new Every Student Succeeds Act.

We reached this conclusion after examining responses to a citywide survey of parents of children in grades K — 8 and students in grades 6 and higher, which was conducted at the end of the 2006 — 07 and 2007 — 08 school years as a part of the city's new school accountability system.

A group of six California school districts, including LA Unified, this week unveiled a new school accountability system that represents...

Under a new school accountability system for Fresno Unified, a school with the best test scores may not be labeled...

Washington's application included new teacher and principal evaluations; a focus on science, math and technology; and a new school accountability system to force struggling schools to make dramatic reforms.

The new school accountability system includes report cards, to be unveiled in October, that will rate schools on a scale of 0 to 100.

Finally, suspension and expulsion rates are one of the indicators that are included in the California School Dashboard, the centerpiece of the state's new school accountability system.

Gov. Scott Walker and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers have invited legislative, education and business leaders to join them on a task force that will design a new school accountability system for Wisconsin.

(Calif.) The California State Board of Education stretched Wednesday to pull together divergent pieces of a sweeping plan to finalize a new school accountability system that would be responsive to both new federal requirements and those already adopted by the Legislature two years ago.

In 1993, a bipartisan majority of Texas legislators approved a new school accountability system.

So for example if we roll back the new school accountability system, we have to change the waiver that we received from the federal government from the No Child Left Behind provisions, which is not going to be a minor, easy feat.

The speaker of the state Assembly says fellow Republicans might expand school vouchers statewide regardless of whether they agree to a new school accountability system.

The California Board of Education is facing some tough choices — and heavy lobbying from parent groups and student advocates — as it works its way toward approving a new school accountability system that meets federal mandates and the vision of Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature in passing the Local Control Funding Formula.

A group of six California school districts, including LA Unified, this week unveiled a new school accountability system that represents a far more complex and intricate way of ranking schools.

The budget compromise also included $ 18 million in grants for dropout and truancy prevention programs and $ 24 million for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, a new state agency created by the Local Control Funding Formula law to oversee the state's new school accountability system.

However, they've also laid out a vision for a new school accountability system that will give less weight to standardized tests in judging a student's or a school's achievement.