Sentences with phrase «opted out of the student»

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's final plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act comes with one caveat — a request to opt out of student testing requirements.

Utah's final plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act comes with one caveat - a request to opt out of student testing requirements.

This is one of the reasons why some community colleges have opted out of the student loan system.

Not exact matches

Many students, longing for deeper intimacy and dissatisfied with what they see on campus, opt out of the hookup culture altogether.

Wyoming Catholic College has decided to opt out of Title IV — specifically, federal student aid and loan programs.

Students and parents may have a harder time opting out, especially where a policy of «passive consent» is employed.

Either they need to fire all employees and dismiss all students who aren't Catholic (so they can say it's a religious issue for all that the insurance would cover) or follow the law (which by the way permits employees too opt out from the controversial parts of the coverage as sort of pointed out in the article).

Schools may wish to allow students to opt out of Meat Free Monday (by having a parent or guardian write to the school) or suggest the student brings a packed lunch that day.

The school board said it wanted to see numbers on how other districts that opted out have been affected and expressed concern about the health of students.

However, while I was researching this article I was unable to find any information about a school that opted out of the USDA program that did not also provide free and reduced meals to low - income students.

The Post's View: Some in GOP would allow schools to opt out of nutritional standards for students» lunches

The GOP majority has been strongly supportive of the Endless Testing Regime, which has tried to shove testing down the throats of students, parents and teachers and used threats against districts with high opt out rates.

The bills» introduction coincided with thousands of students opting out of the current round of standardized tests this month.

Lawmakers in both houses in recent weeks have introduced bills designed to ease aspects of the education policies in the budget, ranging from a codification of students opting out of state tests to exempting top - performing school districts from the new teacher evaluation criteria.

Syracuse University today became the fifth school in Central New York to confirm it's opting out of a new state program that provides tuition aid to students at private colleges and university.

Long Island is the region with the highest number of test refusals, with about 70,000 students opting out.

At least 50,000 students statewide in grades three to eight, including about 20,000 on Long Island, opt out of spring testing.

With the state English and math tests looming next month, opt - out movement advocates are predicting even higher numbers of students who take a pass than last year.

NYC teachers are being warned not to encourage students to opt out of state tests, because that would be a «political act» in which public employees are barred from engaging.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York's congressional delegation to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from carrying out a threat to sanction New York schools as punishment for the hundreds of thousands of students who opted - out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests this month.

Assemblyman says Congress must «referee» to stop Secretary of Education from cutting federal school funding to punish NY for massive student opt - outs of grades 3 - 8 tests

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the burgeoning movement to opt out students from state - administered tests shows «frustration» with the state's system of assessing students and evaluating teachers.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eighth graders.

Opponents, however, warned that continued public ire could result in more than 400,000 students opting out of state tests in English language arts and math in April.

Leaders of the opt - out movement contend the linkage between tests and job ratings puts undue strain on students and teachers alike.

The year before that, nearly 9,500 students opted out, according to the Newsday survey on the final day of ELA testing in April 2014.

In Nassau, 32,854 of 74,390 eligible students, or 44.2 percent, opted out of the test.

The teachers union rebelled, with protests, and one fifth of students statewide opted out of the exams.

One critic said the governor's program would do little to slow the «opt out» movement unless the Democrat de-emphasized the use of student test scores to evaluate schools and teachers.

The parents of New York City school children have a legal right at the beginning of the school year to review their students» sex education curriculum, discuss concerns with school principals, and opt out of parts of the curriculum they find objectionable, the NYC Parents» Choice Coalition today announced.

The number of students opting out was 87,796 in 106 districts reporting out of a total 124 systems Islandwide.

New York — Aug. 28... The parents of New York City school children have a legal right at the beginning of the school year to review their students» sex education curriculum, discuss concerns with school principals, and opt out of parts of the curriculum they find objectionable, the NYC Parents» Choice Coalition today announced.

It's unclear how many students will join the opt - out movement this year, but state officials said they have tried to answer some of the concerns from parents and teachers that spawned the movement.

But nearly one fifth of students across New York opted out of taking the English exams when they were given April 14 and 15, and more plan to skip the math tests, which are administered to third to eight graders.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

With more than two - thirds of Oneida City School District students refusing to take the Common Core aligned exams this year, the district has one of the highest student opt out rates in New York state.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

Just before the March 31 budget deadline, when it became clear that lawmakers would approve a new evaluation system that relies more heavily on state exams, NYSUT joined the «opt out» push, arguing if enough students refuse the tests, they won't be statistically reliable for use as part of the rating system.

Schools across New York were shaken this spring when nearly one - fifth of students opted out of the required English tests for the third through the eighth grades.

Educators on Long Island say the number of students and parents opting - out of taking standardized state tests this week is growing.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

Advocates estimate the so - called «opt - out» movement had almost 200,000 students, and all those test booklets sat empty for a lot of different reasons.

A decrease in the number of students buying school lunches and an increase in the amount of food that is being wasted has pushed one Onondaga County school to opt out of the federal program for its high school students.

The problems with the computerized tests come as about 20 percent of students in New York have opted out of the exams each year in protest to new learning standards.

Leaders of Long Island's anti-testing movement, whose boycott efforts captured national attention last year, are expanding their campaign of encouraging parents and students to opt out of the state's standardized Common Core assessments, scheduled for next month.

NYSUT and their associated groups have supported the movement to have students opt out of the tests in order to dilute the impact on evaluations.

Last year's education policy battle between the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a bruising one, and in April an estimated 20 percent of students opted out of the round of English and math tests.

But one contested item that won't make too much of a difference for school districts is the rate at which students have chosen to opt out of state standardized tests.