Sentences with phrase «quality gaps under»

Officials said they would come up with a «50 - state strategy» to tackle teacher equity instead by much earlier this year, but advocacy groups including The Education Trust said the department was allowing states to sweep teacher quality gaps under the rug.

Not exact matches

Billy Easton of the Alliance for Quality Education said «the gap between rich and poor school districts is growing under Gov. Cuomo.»

Under the law, these plans are intended to help states think comprehensively and collaboratively about their ESSA programs to ensure equity and excellence for all students, including a fair, equitable, and high - quality education that closes achievement gaps.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the November change an «about - face» that let states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, October 2011).

* Assure a stronger focus on equity by (a) asking states not just about the amount of funding in education, but also about the fairness of its distribution to high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority districts and schools, and (b) asking states to document their efforts (required under federal law) to address gaps in teacher quality between high - and low - poverty and high - and low - minority schools.

Kati Haycock, who leads the Washington - based advocacy group Education Trust, called the change, first reported by Education Week, an «about - face» that lets states «keep sweeping under the rug the gaps in teacher quality that contribute so heavily to longstanding achievement gaps.»

Under the dazzling LED lighting of the «Quality Workshop» sat an unpainted Panamera body shell and chassis, every shutline measured and logged with the panel gaps marked in black pen every six inches or so all over the car.

However there is poor under - thigh support and quality is sub par as we could find some panel gaps on our test cars.

Cincinnati is rich in prevention resources such as spay / neuter, compared to other cities, and we are filling the gaps in service areas that have been historically under - represented, such as high volume, high quality adoption.

And in my experience, those that «sweep problems under the carpet» and have a general culture of excusing poor quality because they are «trying their best that are usually the ones with the greatest gap between the quality they think they are producing and the actual quality of what comes out.

Without action to address poor quality care and gaps in continuity of care for prisoners and released prisoners, Minister Wyatt risks having more such deaths occur under his watch.