Sentences with phrase «new state exams»

ALBANY — Three powerful teachers» unions joined forces Friday to lobby for legislation that would create a moratorium on attaching «high stakes» to student scores on new state exams.

When students in DuPage County's Lake Park High School District took a field test of Illinois» new state exam last spring, the reaction stunned administrators:

Less than half of Howard County students met standards for algebra and English on new state exams, according to results released by the Maryland State Department of Education on Thursday.

DuPage County's Addison Trail High School enrolled nearly 600 freshmen at the start of the 2014 - 15 school year, but when it came time to give a new state exam in ninth - grade - level English language arts, more than 100 of the kids disappeared from the testing roster.

This includes training principals and teachers on the new standards, designing and purchasing high - quality curricula, making sure assessments meet higher standards, and securing technology for the new state exam.

A showdown over state testing is intensifying, with the Illinois State Board of Education threatening to yank as much as hundreds of millions of dollars from districts that don't administer a new state exam to students.