Sentences with phrase «school accountability program»

State and federal school accountability programs hold schools to specific standards of academic performance and assume each school is given a fair shake at accomplishing the task of educating its students.

Unless the General Assembly changes the state School Report Cards law this year, there could be two different school accountability programs in North Carolina.

Under the changes being proposed to the state's A + school accountability program, Florida's annual school - by - school letter grades would be based on longitudinal data — that is, looking at how students» test scores increase or decline as they proceed through school over several years.

Because the CPS began both student and school accountability programs simultaneously, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of one initiative from the other conclusively.

Utah's 127 - page draft, more than a year in the making, also includes the state's latest public school accountability program spelled out in SB220, passed by the Utah Legislature earlier this year.

Standards - based testing, which assigns students to a small number of discrete performance categories, has become an important mode of communicating student assessment results for state school accountability programs.

School accountability programs in the South have come a long way in a decade, but many still suffer from a lack of cohesiveness, community input, and teacher preparation, among other shortcomings, a report says.

After seven years of a school accountability program, achievement gaps in California's schools are widening in some grades, according to a recent assessment of the state education system.

This is the right direction for North Carolina's school accountability program.

Every Student Succeeds Act — The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 — or ESSA — replaced the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and provides states with more flexibility in designing student assessment and school accountability programs.

Susan Wilhelm (Title I) and Millie Bentley - Memon (Title III) from the Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs (SASA), Ruth Ryder from Special Education, and Kay Ringling from the General Counsel's office provide the audio portion of the presentation.

The Legislature should also include attendance rates in the state's school accountability program.

Parental Involvement: How to Build Collaborations that Impact Student Achievement, Jacquelyn C. Jackson, Ed.D Director, Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs, U.S. Department of Education