Sentences with phrase «on state test scores»

Students from all five boroughs take the high - school test, qualifying based on state test scores, with around 170 ultimately accepted.

He pointed to how those districts have seen gains the past few years on state test scores and high school graduation rates.

Yet weighting schemes that put the most emphasis on teacher observations were the least predictive of gains on the state test scores, it says.

In August, a New York State Supreme Court judge invalidated a vote by state education officials that would have let districts base 40 % of teacher evaluations on state test scores, after the state teachers unions sued saying the law allowed for only 20 %.

In a move that few would have predicted a year ago, the State Board of Regents on Dec. 14 voted nearly unanimously to eliminate state - provided growth scores based on state test scores from teacher evaluations for four years.

Experience is a harsh mistress, and one of the things she teaches the policy analyst is to never rely solely on state test scores.

According to a book outlining Cuomo's policy and budget speech on Wednesday, the governor will propose a «simplified and standardized» evaluation system that rates teachers 50 percent on state test scores (or a comparable measure of student growth for teachers in subjects that are not tested) and 50 percent on observations.

In his State of the State address on Jan. 21, Governor Andrew Cuomo tied $ 1.1 billion in additional state education aid to the passage of his «reform» proposals in the state budget: individual merit pay, more charter schools, punishing struggling schools, and making teacher evaluation hinge on state test scores.

Twenty percent of the total 40 percent must be based on how a student improves on state test scores, and the remaining 20 percent can be based on scores on tests developed by an individual school district, or a third party, pending state approval.

The law was amended in 1999 under Gov. Gray Davis, requiring school boards to evaluate teachers based on state test scores as they «reasonably relate» to a teacher's classroom performance, a vague term that effectively made it easy for districts to avoid the law.

The achievement would be measured based on how students fare on state test scores.

Half of their assessment is based on their students» results on state test scores, a serious problem for those who teach subjects with no state test.

With districts facing a deadline of next fall to have the system in place, the student achievement piece and particularly the SGP measures that work on state tests scores have by far been the most controversial part of the evaluation system.

U.S. News based its rankings on state test scores and college readiness, while Newsweek's methodology included graduation rates, college acceptance and AP exams.

At Success, his performance on the state test scores has shot up.

Also troublesome for Hobbs and other teachers in Kingsport is that, beginning this year, they will be compensated based in part on those state test scores.

The designation and related sanctions, which cost the Madison School District nearly $ 300,000 this year, were imposed despite a UW - Madison analysis showing Leopold students made some of the biggest improvements in the district on state test scores last year.

We believe SEL is critical to the growth and development of our students and that there is the added benefit of helping our community focus on other measures of success — not just on state test scores.

The percentage of Blue Ribbon Schools with lackluster academic records, based on state test scores from schools in seven states, fell from 24 percent during the 1999 award cycle to 9 percent in 2003, the study concludes.

It would base 35 percent of each evaluation on state test scores, 45 percent on principal observations and 20 percent on peer evaluators.

States can include both former English learners and students with disabilities in the respective subgroups for any indicator that is based on state test scores, rather than only the Academic Achievement indicator.

Under the accountability system, which grades schools on an A-to-F scale based on state test scores, more than 300 schools received a total of $ 30 million in rewards from the state this fall.

Nerad's letter said the designation is based partly on student achievement, student growth, closing achievement gaps and on - track graduation and post-secondary readiness, but DPI spokesman John Johnson clarified that the designation is solely based on state test scores and 2011 graduation rates.

And what is their reaction to «student growth percentiles» (SGP), a new yardstick based on state test scores?

Deal reached in Albany gives educators two - year break from low ratings based on state test scores

• Lincoln Elementary, a school with a large percentage of low - income students, was flagged this year as a low - performing «focus» school under the state's new accountability system based on state test scores.

That measure, called Academic Growth Over Time, uses a mathematical formula to estimate how much a teacher helps students» performance, based on state test scores and controlling for such outside factors as income and race.

Assessments that provide direct evidence of what students can do related to the specific curriculum they are taught can be more accurate and productive than the value - added metrics based on state test scores that are currently popular.

Like every other state seeking an NCLB waiver, New Jersey had to identify its strategies for improving the performance of «priority» schools (the bottom 5 percent, based on state test scores) and «focus» schools (those with prominent achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, or other categories, for example).

The report cards rate public schools for the first time on a scale of 0 to 100 based on state test scores and other factors, such as graduation rates, attendance and progress on closing achievement gaps.

State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D - Essex), the legislator most credited for the new tenure law, said yesterday in some of her first public comments on the regulations that the administration's plans to base 35 percent of certain teachers» evaluations on state test scores, starting next year, may be too ambitious.

We're still waiting to learn the results of the federal investigation into our December 2010 Office for Civil Rights discrimination complaint against Chicago's policy of flunking students based on their state test scores, and now another round of flunking is going on.