Sentences with phrase «placement decisions»

The legal identity has significant implications for a charter school's access to special education funding, infrastructure, and authority over placement decisions for students with disabilities.

Usually, instructors have a sense of where their learners are in terms of skills and knowledge gaps, but don't know exactly how to go about making placement decisions.

The new law calls for the removal of teacher recommendations in placement decisions, unless these recommendations are used to advance students.

While the enrollment numbers «settled out,» students engaged in team - building activities and took diagnostic assessments that further informed placement decisions.

We must end policies that base personnel placement decisions on how long a teacher has taught rather than how well.

Supporters of the new law hope that districts will apply the same principles of fairness and objectivity they will implement for 9th grade under the new law in whatever grades placement decisions are made.

It is also worth noting that a majority of districts also rely on parental requests for math placement decisions (62 %).

We try to make the best placement decisions for the animal, to give him or her the best chance at a great new life.

This freely available information can then be used by the merchant to make inventory or strategic placement decisions and even to create entirely new products and brands to address limitations in current offerings.

While the tests do not count against a student's grades, they are used in some school and program placement decisions.

In these instances, while charter schools participate in the placement process, they do not always make the final placement decisions for students with disabilities.

The effects of inaccurate test results are compounded when they are used to make instructional placement decisions.

For example, they asked how many kids from different groups took college - prep classes, what kind of evidence placement decisions were based on, and the attendance patterns of different groups.

If a college uses multiple measures, how will they be combined into a single placement decision?

We will forward all applications to you for review — and you can make your own placement decisions.

Our online screening service provides access to criminal, sexual offender, motor vehicle and personal credit information — allowing your organization to make informed volunteer placement decisions quickly.

Rather than on emotion, they base their capital placement decisions on the value of your investment property.

Any difference in placement decisions would indicate a potential bias in teacher recommendation.

We are creating a new standard in placement stability for foster children through the use of data - informed placement decision - making and a research - driven software matching system.

And our follow - up conversations with districts revealed a complex situation, in terms of the use of this measure and its implications for equity in math placement decisions.

It assists educators with programmatic placement decisions such as identification and placement of ELs.

For example, in Harrison County, Colo., school officials worked with their teachers union to put in place an «effectiveness and results» pay plan that uses educators» classroom performance - rather than simply their seniority - to make school placement decisions and salary increase determinations.

In response to Doug's comments re testing: «with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.»

It assists educators with programmatic placement decisions such as identification and placement of ELLs.

General Mills does not make advertising placement decisions based on the sexual orientation of characters.»

Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., in a letter Monday to district superintendents statewide, said the state «neither requires nor encourages districts to make promotion or placement decisions using student performance on state assessments in grades 3 - 8.»

Our survey reveals that teacher recommendations are among the most widely used measures in district placement decisions, and that these recommendations rely heavily on both the cognitive and the soft skills that contribute to student learning.

In a nutshell, A4190 stipulates, performance on PARCC can not be used to evaluate teachers, to determine graduation eligibility or to inform student placement decisions such as grade promotion, placement in advanced programs and implementation of other interventions.

Only with a larger pool of foster and adoptive families to choose from, can the New Jersey State of Division of Youth and Family Services make better initial placement decisions and keep more siblings together, when circumstances require the removal of children from their biological homes.

In a 6 - 0 vote, board members approved a plan to transfer responsibility for overseeing student - evaluation and - placement decisions from the central board of education to subdistrict superintendents and school principals.

And this problem can be tackled by adding relevant information to the college's course placement decisions, not by substituting meaningless GPAs for on - campus placement.

MTSS is not designed for consideration in special education placement decisions, such as specific learning disabilities.

Although placement decisions are made by the Individualized Education Program (IEP) Team, parents have expressed concerns about inclusion opportunities for students with significant disabilities and learning needs to the State Special Education Advisory Committee (SSEAC), and as part of an inclusive practice workgroup with stakeholders (June 2016).

Our findings provide evidence that teacher education can have a causal effect on the development of teacher candidates and it offers practical implications for programs and districts about how to use administrative data to inform internship placement decisions.

Community colleges» inconsistent policies and uneven enforcement of placement rules combined with students» lack of clarity about the policies for re-testing and for challenging placement decisions led to frustration and diminished educational aspirations among students.

The Foster Home understands and agrees that only designated One Love representatives have authority to approve and place rescued animals into foster or permanent homes, and that only authorized representatives of One Love will conduct interviews and home visits and make adoption placement decisions.

Attachment and racial identity issues: Implications for child placement decision making.

As a part of this grant, Denver's Village instituted an Intensive Family Finding Process that searches for family or kin as placement options from the moment an out - of - home placement decision is made and every 6 months throughout the life of the case.

Sibling relationships should be considered in each and every foster and adoptive placement decision, along with the child's or youth's other needs.

A child's social worker is ultimately responsible for determing placement decisions for the children on their caseload.

The majority of district policies allow parental waivers, a process in which parents can override school placement decisions.

Don — I would contend that the greater damage is not in lost time or money but rather with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.