Sentences with phrase «prior school year»

Even though Senate Bill 2 did not become effective until September 1, 2013, Section 12.115 (c - 1) directed the Commissioner of Education to revoke open - enrollment charter schools based on their academic and financial performance in prior school years.

Since users have the ability to look at report card data from prior school years, the change in grade may create confusion and give the incorrect appearance that a school is failing when it actually improved.

Memphis, TN displays data from Shelby County School District for the 2013 - 14 school year and on, and Memphis City Schools for prior school years.

After the tenure decision, a teacher's evaluation each year should depend on four parts: 40 percent of the weight should be placed on student achievement gains in all available prior school years, 40 percent should be placed on prior classroom observations and the remaining 20 percent should be split between their student achievement gains and classroom observations in the most recent year.

To qualify, a student must have been enrolled in a Georgia public school for the entire prior school year.

In prior school years, the district was commended by the state for the number of minority students in Advanced Placement and honors classes, according to Superintendent Baggett, so the administration is not worried about meeting the DOJ's enrollment standards.

It's hard to believe that three short months of summer vacation can entirely negate the stamina we had built up over the prior school year, but it does.

FRAC's School Breakfast Scorecard released this week reveals that on an average school day in the 2016 — 2017 school year, 12.2 million low - income students participated in school breakfast, an increase of 0.6 percent compared to the prior school year.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined the mayor and the schools chancellor on Jan. 17 to announce that a record number of New York City public school students took and passed Advanced Placement exams in the prior school year.

For example, the graduation rate was 82 percent for the 2015 — 16 school year, up three points from the prior school year.

We need to compare the effectiveness of teachers in each certification group while separating out each of their students» baseline level of achievement (measured with test scores from the prior school year) and other characteristics of the student, classroom, school, and teacher that could affect student achievement.

We also estimated each teacher's impact on student performance in the prior school year (2013 - 14) to use as a control.

In addition, all students applying for the WPCP must meet one of the following attendance requirements for 2016 - 17: (1) have attended a public school in Wisconsin in the prior school year; (2) not have been enrolled in school in the prior school year; (3) applying to attend kindergarten, first, or ninth grades for the coming school year; or (4) participated in the WPCP or Racine Parental Choice Program (RCPC) in the 2015 - 16 school year.

Not only were more students proficient in both reading and math in 2015 - 16 compared with the prior school year, but more parents also chose to opt their students back into annual tests.

Combine the former separate bonuses almost into one program for the 2018 - 19 school year for eligible principals whose «school was in the top fifty percent (50 %) of school growth in the State» in the prior school year (from $ 2,000 - $ 6,000) and potentially doubles that bonus if the school had a D or F School Performance grade in the prior year.

This is an increase of 2,684 students and 29 schools across the three programs compared to the prior school year.

Once those scores were collected in early summer, Virginia officials realized that some groups of students — African Americans, for example — had performed worse than on tests administered during the prior school year.

It is typical for students in elementary grades to lose some of the skills they developed in the prior school year...

It is typical for students in elementary grades to lose some of the skills they developed in the prior school year over the summer.

The above example depicts a student with scores at risk in the prior school year but who made important progress with intervention during the current school year.

«Participation was up by 5,713 students statewide from the prior school year, and rates improved slightly for public schools with 98.4 percent of students taking the assessments.

In the prior school year (2014 - 15), the citywide average was 33 percent — so this is the second consecutive year of positive growth.

Prior to Nov. 16, principals must post on their Internet and in the school office: names and contact information (email or phone) for each member of the council; the proposed meeting schedule for the school year; and a summary of the School LAND Trust Program Plan completed in the prior school year.

To avoid this problem, some value - added methods including those used by Tennessee and Ohio, compare student achievement growth to the average growth of students from a prior school year called a base year.

In the spring, after learning what their effectiveness rating was for the prior school year, teachers were asked to indicate their level of agreement with 10 statements capturing their general satisfaction with teaching as well as their satisfaction in their current position.

(2) In each public school having an enrollment of between 300 and 1,499 students on October 15 of the prior school year, the board of education shall employ, at a minimum, one full - time staff member who holds an educational services certificate with a school library media specialist endorsement.

In addition to the staffing requirements established pursuant to subsection a. of this section, a public school having an enrollment of 500 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year shall employ, at a minimum, one full - time staff member to serve as a library clerk, and shall employ one additional full - time staff member to serve as a library clerk for each additional 500 students enrolled in the school.

(3) In each public school having an enrollment of 1,500 or more students on October 15 of the prior school year, the board of education shall employ, at a minimum, two full - time staff members who hold an educational services certificate with a school library media specialist endorsement.

Revise timelines for voluntary transfers or resignations so that hiring processes can take place as early as possible, ideally in the spring of the prior school year.

Statewide, about 41 percent of juniors tested last spring scored proficient or better in English compared with about 46 percent of those tested in the prior school year.