Sentences with phrase «new school report cards»

Would require new school report cards that provide parents with information in a transparent, straightforward, easy - to - understand format.

Walker also called for new school report cards to include letter grades for schools and a weighting system that takes into account a school's student poverty level, students» disabilities, and number of years a student has attended that school.

Kussow's group has advocated for using the state's new school report cards as criteria for voucher expansion, similar to what is happening in Louisiana.

The SBOE wants to hear the community's thoughts on the proposed content of a new school report card that will provide the same information about every public and public charter school in the District.

While the state board is still determining the new school report cards and with the discontinuation of the Academic Performance Index in 2013, which gave each school a number from 200 to 1,000 under No Child Left Behind, there is no overall ranking of schools.

CCSSO recently released A School Finder to Empower: Case Study of Louisiana's New School Report Card, to highlight examples of best practice strategies the state education agency implemented as they developed reporting tools that would meet the needs of their stakeholders as well as their lessons learned from the experience.

And new school report cards — that better reflected factors, such as poverty — showed the lowest - performing schools had improved enough that none qualified for the program.

In A School Finder to Empower: Case Study of Louisiana's New School Report Card, prepared on behalf of the Council of Chief State School Officers, we detail the process Louisiana used to deliver a tool that empowers multiple stakeholders.

The new school report cards switched to an A-F grading system a few years ago in hopes of becoming easier to understand.