Education officials have a wide variety of options on how to intervene under state law at their disposal, from closing or combining schools to
revising school improvement plans.
Not exact matches
Recommendation: We recommend
revising § 200.21 and § 200.22 to provide flexibility to states around the development of
School Improvement Plans by removing requirements that go beyond the
plan elements specified in statute.
The
plan also «includes services to assist underperforming
schools and districts through a
revised model for
school improvement.»
CEC helped RPS
revise its teacher evaluation process and learn to use student growth measures before implementing PAR; conduct and analyze a detailed system assessment before beginning strategic
planning; and develop a data - based decision - making culture at the
school level before the implementation of SMART Goals as a
school improvement process.
Advocates for parent and community engagement see the newly
revised federal K - 12 law as an opportunity to expand their impact on states» academic goals,
plans for
school improvement, and other areas of policy.
Meanwhile, the nine California districts seeking flexibility from the law's requirements just resubmitted their waiver application after spending weeks
revising it to address the department's questions related to their proposed teacher and principal evaluation
plan and
school improvement system.
The proposed rule
revises the criteria of charter
schools required to submit a
school improvement plan with a corrective action to a charter
school that earns three consecutive grades below a «C».
The bill
revises numerous provisions related to charter
schools and adds new academic accountability requirements for charter
schools graded D or F, including the development and implementation of
school improvement plans.