Sentences with phrase «school fluctuates from year to year»

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AB: The numbers of the alternative school (QTLC) fluctuate from year to year, and currently there are 41 students with ages between 12 - 18 years.

Even if the students are being drawn from the same families and the same neighborhoods, the average performance of a school can fluctuate from year to year depending on the attitudes and abilities of the students in each cohort.

Capital spending typically supports school construction and other physical infrastructure investments that can fluctuate significantly from year to year in individual states, throwing off the underlying trend line.

More specifically, the district and its teachers are not coming to an agreement about how they should be evaluated, rightfully because teachers understand better than most (even some VAM researchers) that these models are grossly imperfect, largely biased by the types of students non-randomly assigned to their classrooms and schools, highly unstable (i.e., grossly fluctuating from one year to the next when they should remain more or less consistent over time, if reliable), invalid (i.e., they do not have face validity in that they often contradict other valid measures of teacher effectiveness), and the like.

But the volume of such cases — at least as reported by school districts — appears to have fluctuated dramatically in recent years: The number of districts reporting they were party to such orders or plans nearly doubled from the 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection to the 2015 - 16 collection that was released by the Education Department last month.