Sentences with phrase «require state accountability»

This narrow view extends to the bill's accountability provisions, which require state accountability systems to only take into consideration student performance in those same two subjects.

His amendments, for example, would require state accountability systems to set performance, growth, and graduation targets for all students, including all subgroups of students, and make performance against those targets matter for all schools.

It might be best, however, not to require state accountability testing in a special education voucher program.

Arne Duncan has also espoused the wisdom of looking at progress over time, yet his ESEA waiver rules require state accountability systems to take proficiency rates into account — those are expected to be the drivers in identifying «focus» and «priority» schools.

It would require state accountability systems to designate schools and districts based on their performance against these targets (so there would be a bit more flexibility than NCLB or waivers).

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to measure «progress in achieving English language proficiency, as defined by the State.»

ESSA requires state accountability systems to include an indicator of academic achievement «as measured by proficiency on the annual assessments.»

In addition to four academic indicators, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires state accountability systems to include one other indicator, such as student engagement, educator engagement, access to and completion of advanced coursework, postsecondary readiness, or school climate and safety.

ESSA requires state accountability plans under the law to demonstrate «Evidence - based interventions» and defines «Evidence - based» in four tiers.

For example, the law requires state accountability systems to evaluate schools using a variety of criteria.

ESSA requires state accountability systems to annually measure five indicators that assess progress toward the state's long - term educational goals, with a particular focus on certain student subgroups: those who are economically disadvantaged, minorities, children with disabilities, and English language learners.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires state accountability systems to include indicators of «school quality and student success» in addition to indicators of academic outcomes.

Not exact matches

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Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

At the same time, officials around the nation have been trying to figure out how to respond to the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in December 2015 and requires each state to come up with its own accountability system that must include at least one nonacademic measure.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school lState Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school lstate on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school level.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Tennessee State Board of Education Physical Activity Policy 4.206 (2005) requires each school district's School Health Advisory Council to annually administer CDC's SHI: A Self - Assessment and Planning Guide and report a summary to the sState Board of Education Physical Activity Policy 4.206 (2005) requires each school district's School Health Advisory Council to annually administer CDC's SHI: A Self - Assessment and Planning Guide and report a summary to the statestate.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The state requires LEAs to annually complete the online Wellness Policy Builder assessment tool to document their consideration of the state's School Wellness Policy Guidelines (2010) as required by Senate Bill 154.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The State Board of Education amended its Health, Wellness, and Safety Policy in 2006 to require the Department of Education to create a plan for measuring implementation of the wellness policy.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Local Education Agencies (LEAs) are required to complete a. «Local Wellness Policy Checklist» and submit it to the state Department of Education with their Wellness Policy.

Additional accountability requirements: N.J.S.A. 18A: 33 - 15 to 18 (2007) requires new school districts participating in any of the federally funded Child Nutrition Programs to submit their local policies to the state Department of Agriculture for a compliance check with the state's NJ School Nutrition / Wellness Policy (2005), which contains policy content requirements that go beyond Section 204.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Statute Title 70, Section 24 - 100b (2005) requires each school district to report to the state Department of Education on the district's wellness policy, goals, guidelines, and progress in implementing the policy and attaining the goals.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

Under these New York State laws, candidates are required to file periodic financial disclosure reports in order to provide accountability by candidates seeking public office and to provide transparency in the election process.

«By requiring these additional measures of accountability, the State has signaled a stronger commitment to protecting its own fiscal interest in a time of economic uncertainty.

He authored legislation to require more accountability from the more than 700 state and local authorities that use public funds and provide quasi-governmental services like mass transit and economic development.

DiNapoli's plan calls on the state to bring more transparency and accountability to state finances by eliminating discretionary lump sum appropriations, restricting «backdoor spending» by public authorities, requiring more disclosure of public authorities» spending and financing, and making the state budget more understandable and accessible.

The state is still required to use state test scores in school accountability — a requirement that will be carried over under the new law, the official said.

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Powell, who joined the PEP in 2012 and served on the contract committee, contends he never got the state - required minimum six hours of training on financial oversight, accountability and fiduciary duties.

There were proposals to, among other things, hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile; not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.

And yet the Every Student Succeeds Act, NCLB's successor law, still mandates standardized testing of students and requires states to have accountability systems.

School accountability was thought to require simultaneous centralization and decentralization: the centralization of standards at the state level and the decentralization of operational responsibilities to the district or school level.

A state sets an «accountability goal,» such as requiring students to pass an examination, and uses that score as a marker for academic achievement.

A state that misses the required participation rate will lose points for academic achievement in the state's accountability system.

The law requires states to use a single accountability system for public schools to determine whether all students, as well as individual subgroups...

Much higher proficiency cut scores will also require states to rethink their approach to school accountability.

A year ago, North Carolina's Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability issued a report recommending a sharp reduction in the number of tests that the state required.

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Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

NCLB dramatically expanded the law's scope by requiring that states introduce school - accountability systems that applied to all public schools and students in the state.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.

For some context, when No Child Left Behind required every state to adopt standards, create assessments aligned to those assessments, and build an accountability and reporting system, it gave states 44 months to do all of those things (from January 2002 to September 2005).

Colorado passed much - noted legislation requiring any school that receives three consecutive «unsatisfactory» ratings under the state accountability system to convert to a charter.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

That's because, in response to the national push for academic standards and accountability, movements fueled by philanthropy, states now are required to test students and report on the results.

Alexander indicated that he was strongly influenced by the recommendation made at a hearing last week by Professor Marty West of Harvard University that the federal government continue to require annual tests but that it leave the design of accountability systems up to the states.

The accountability rule was especially prescriptive and would have required states to assign each school a single summative performance rating based on a complicated set of indicators while also dictating methods for intervention in struggling schools.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.