Sentences with phrase «of adequacy studies»

The emergence of adequacy studies led to the filing of a new round of court challenges based on the level of funding adequacy produced by a state funding plan.

This table is not a comprehensive list of all adequacy studies conducted across the 50 states.

Finally, the authors» analysis equates the validity of adequacy studies with a universal, one - size - fits - all answer to education funding.

Not exact matches

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

Otherwise, adequacy to pluralism will necessarily work against unification of the course of study, and vice versa.

A study group thus becomes a kind of modified therapy group, encouraging growth in the adequacy of one's total life.

In Whitaker and Malone's study, The Roots of Psychotherapy, the conclusion is stated that the most important variable in all forms of therapy is the adequacy of the therapist as a person.

Biblical studies oriented to theological questions about the nature and criteria of adequacy of congregations» common life are central to study of congregations as characterized by distinctive social space.

In our study inability to assess the adequacy of milk supply was also a factor.

A study from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition (JACN) discusses fluid intake adequacy in detail and a simple tool is reviewed that may help healthy, active, low - risk populations answer the question, «Am I drinking enough?»

In the study, «Children's Recall of Fast Food Television Advertising - Testing the Adequacy of Food Marketing Regulation,» 100 children aged 3 - 7 years were shown McDonald's and Burger King children's and adult meal ads, which were drawn at random from ads that aired on national television in the United States in 2010 - 11.

Drawing from the concerns highlighted in this report, the Institutes formed seven subcommittees — stipends and benefits; adequacy of training; mentoring; duration of training and career path setting; career advice and job placement; satisfaction with choice of Gladstone for postdoctoral studies; and a catch - all of additional issues — to address specific issues.

«This study used only the first year of data after CCO implementation; because of the initial positive impact of CCOs on prenatal care timeliness, we hope that additional years of data will demonstrate improvements in prenatal care adequacy, as well,» Oakley said.

Dr. Weaver noted that the Nutrient Adequacy statements might include a message to increase consumption of nuts and seeds and legumes in light of recent studies showing the satiety value for nut consumption.

«The New York Adequacy Study: Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education,» American Institutes for Research and Management Analysis and Planning (March 2004).

The task force specifically recommended that the adequacy study address the additional costs incurred from educating large numbers of students with disabilities, English - language learners, and students in poverty.

Checked: «The New York Adequacy Study: Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education,» American Institutes for Research and Management Analysis and Planning (March 2004).

After more than a decade of legal wrangling, including stacks of constitutional briefs, expert testimony, dueling costing - out studies, and the like, one of the most significant school adequacy cases in American history has been reduced to little more than a wire transfer.

A clear set of evidence standards and screening criteria would be useful to legislative and executive bodies when appraising the objectivity and scientific reliability of cost studies that aim to determine the adequacy of state funding mechanisms.

There are significant unresolved issues in all studies - about the adequacy of controls for family background, the possibility of differential bias at different levels of aggregation, and the use of weak measures of achievement and spending.

The heart of the evidence regarding adequacy in West Orange Cove was provided by two cost function studies, one submitted by the plaintiffs and one by the defense.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

In the first study of opinions handed down in education adequacy litigation between January 2005 and January 2008, this paper shows a marked shift away from outcomes favorable to adequacy plaintiffs.

The Collaborative is planning to produce a comprehensive school adequacy study using multiple methodologies that will provide policymakers with the best, most complete and most accurate information on the true costs of educating all Michigan public school students.

We study the impact of post-1990 school finance reforms, during the so - called «adequacy» era, on the distribution of school spending and student achievement between high - income and low - income school districts.

This will be the second so - called adequacy study to try to figure out the cost of educating a child in Michigan.

Further, two of the four commonly used methodologies for adequacy studies were developed by APA and POA.

The Michigan Education Finance Study used the Successful School Districts method, which determines adequacy by examining the level of resources available to districts currently meeting certain performance standards.

Using the results of the study to create an adequacy - based funding system with appropriate base cost, weights and adjustments for district characteristics.

This study explores the issue of special education adequacy through two questions:

Yet this report doesn't make use of well - established research conventions (adequacy or equity studies), or for that matter any sensible approach for determining if a formula is in fact broken.

Funding adequacy seems to be in the eye of the beholder, and none of the recent studies analyzing the adequacy of Texas public education funding are conclusive by objective analysis.

ADEQUACY / EQUITY STUDY: We all know that school funding in Michigan has not yet reached a level of adequacy orADEQUACY / EQUITY STUDY: We all know that school funding in Michigan has not yet reached a level of adequacy oradequacy or equity.

Based on the findings of the study, in 2008 the General Assembly enacted Act 61, establishing a new funding formula and a plan to meet adequacy funding targets in underfunded school districts by 2014.

Further, the study must consider the facility conditions, adequacy of the site, cost / savings, community considerations, and alternatives to closing the school.

The study of adequacy was to determine what it costs for all of our students — no matter where they live — to attain state academic standards.

School Finance Research Collaborative members discuss findings of Michigan's first comprehensive school adequacy study at this year's MASA Midwinter Conference.

H.B. 7270, File 511 which proposes a comprehensive «adequacy study of public school funding» to be completed in the next 12 months.

The adequacy cost study is estimated to cost $ 250,000, less than one - in - ten - thousandths of what our state currently spends on primary and secondary education each year.

Unlike the arbitrary, budget driven efforts of the past and present, an Education Adequacy Cost Study would provide hard, real - world data on student needs and what resources are necessary to meet our state constitutional responsibility to deliver an adequate and equitable educational opportunity for every K - 12 public school student in our state.

CCJEF proposes an adequacy cost study, which has been done in over 30 other states, to help determine the amount of funding needed to educate different groups of students depending on their needs.

One of the keys to success for any costing out study is having stakeholder buy - in on the adequacy standard that is being costed out.

CCJEF recommends that the Committee amend R.B. No. 7270 to ensure stakeholder participation in an adequacy study of public school funding in our state.

Elements of S.B. 2, such as the shift in measuring local ability to pay equally between property wealth and income wealth as well as changes in student need factors, could be adopted as the beginning of a transitional financing system while the adequacy cost study is being performed.

In testimony before the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee last week, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF] presented the rationale behind Connecticut conducting an Education Adequacy Cost Study in order to determine the level of resources that are really needed to ensure that every child has access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality education.

, a robust education adequacy cost study that ultimately formed the basis for the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

These flaws drove CCJEF, in 2005, to commission an education adequacy cost study to determine the true cost of education in Connecticut.

In testimony before the Connecticut Education Committee later today, students from the Education Adequacy Project Clinic at Yale Law School will provide legislators with the rationale behind the importance of conducting a comprehensive education adequacy cost study in order to determine the appropriate level of school funding in ConnAdequacy Project Clinic at Yale Law School will provide legislators with the rationale behind the importance of conducting a comprehensive education adequacy cost study in order to determine the appropriate level of school funding in Connadequacy cost study in order to determine the appropriate level of school funding in Connecticut.

Unlike the arbitrary, budget - driven efforts of the past and present, an education adequacy cost study would provide hard, real - world data on student needs and what resources are necessary to meet our state constitutional responsibility to deliver an adequate and equitable educational opportunity for every K - 12 public school student in our state.

CCJEF supports the education adequacy cost study called for in Section 3 of R.B. 7270 but asks the Committee to ensure CCJEF and other stakeholder participation in the study to ensure its integrity and credibility.