Sentences with phrase «require statewide tests»

The recent news that Washington state legislators voted down a bill that would require statewide tests to be used — in some locally determined amount — as part of teacher and principal evaluations has three major implications:

West High received an F grade because fewer than 95 percent of its lower - achieving students took the required statewide tests.

Not exact matches

Even though newborn testing for Krabbe disease was required statewide in 2007, the testing was never implemented.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

The regulations will include required time frames and steps for the maintenance and testing of cooling towers, fines for not cpmplying with the regulations and a statewide registry.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

Around one fifth of students statewide did not take the math and English tests required for third through eighth graders.

Like the city regulations, the statewide rules will require building owners to register their cooling towers — up until now, the city has had no definitive information on how many cooling towers exist or where they are — and will require all cooling towers to be tested for legionella in the next 30 days.

In an effort to end so - called social promotions, Mr. Bush would require students in certain grades to pass statewide tests in order to move up a grade.

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

A statewide survey that covered many issues, conducted by a consulting firm for the state education department, asked the question: «Teachers in Florida are now required to take a competency test before being certified to teach.

The law also required annual statewide tests in grades 3 through 8, and again in high school, and states had to publish the performances of students on these tests for every school, breaking out the results by ethnicity, eligibility for a subsidized lunch, and a variety of other categories.

The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.

The lawsuit argues that new questions in the revised Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress exam will require students to disclose personal information about themselves and their families, said the legislators» lawyer, John Price.

Since ESSA requires the use of proficiency rates, one design objective is a combination of measures on academic achievement to reduce both the short - term gaming around «bubble kids» (both real and perceived) and also the long - term incentive to lowball cut - scores for various achievement bands on statewide tests.

Again, the result looks a lot like «annual testing,» just not the kind of statewide, comparable annual testing system NCLB requires today.

The law requires districts to adopt «multiple objective academic measures,» which could include statewide standardized test results, student portfolios and other placement tests predictive of math readiness, interim assessments and grades.

First, the court concluded that the state has a compelling interest in (a) not socially promoting third - graders who do not exhibit the requisite reading proficiency and (b) receiving federal education funding, which requires 95 percent participation in specified statewide achievement testing.

It is also important that we make these investments in a way that supports smart, effective assessments and reduces over-testing, including language requiring states to limit classroom time spent on statewide standardized testing.

Both quotes are strong statements in support of good K - 12 large scale testing practices required by educational measurement standards (i.e., validity, reliability, comparability, fairness) that are also included in CA's statewide assessment authorizing statutory language.

No Child Left Behind requires statewide accountability tests be given to 3rd - through 12th - graders annually.

While ESSA was designed to reduce unnecessary standardized testing, the new educational policy requires that schools take an annual statewide assessment.

Analogous to the Common Core standards incentivized by Race to the Top and the federal mandates for statewide standards and tests required by the 1994 version of the ESEA, there is a rapid spread of statewide or federal early learning standards and early childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizations.

AB 1951 by Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D - Long Beach, requires the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to approve one or more nationally recognized high school assessments that districts can use for statewide testing purposes of 11th graders instead of the existing system.

Earlier this month, the Utah State Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purposes.

As long as the student is enrolled in a Connecticut public school, the district is required to test them on some form of the statewide exam.

SBAC testing companies say that they require about twenty percent participation statewide to suit their «test the test» objective.

Additionally, ESSA requires states to annually test 95 percent of students in reading and math, to use the participation rate to calculate the achievement indicator, and to factor assessment participation into the statewide accountability system another way.21 For example, four states — Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Vermont — plan to lower a school's classification for not meeting this requirement.22 In three states — Illinois, Nevada, and Tennessee — schools that do not have a 95 percent participation rate can not score at the highest level of proficiency; receive zero points for proficiency; or receive an F on the achievement indicator for the given group of students, respectively.23

In Deasy's view, the law could not be used this year because of the change in statewide testing; use of the Parent Trigger laws requires that a school demonstrate poor academic performance two consecutive years, based on the same metrics.

ESSA maintains the NCLB testing schedule, requiring states to test students in reading and math annually in grades three through eight and once in high school, using statewide common assessments.

Teacher candidates can not test out of the required 12 semester hours of reading, and the test - out option, which became available in September 2001, is only for in - service teachers who were certified prior to the implementation of the statewide reading course requirements.

In the recent Smater Balanced statewide tests, magnets outperformed the district's independent charter schools in nearly every major category, although the demographics of magnets vs. independent charters do not match up evenly, and some magnet schools are for highly - gifted students, which requires them to meet certain academic criteria for enrollment.

DeKalb Central School District administrators identified that a percentage of their students required math intervention when results on the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress Plus (ISTEP +) showed less than ideal performance in mathematics.