Sentences with phrase «scores at the local schools»

Buyers may want to know about the test scores at the local schools or the city's plans to construct a new park.

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Cuomo's Five - Year Financial Plan keeps revenue sharing with local governments flat at a time when scores of local governments and school districts are headed for insolvency and a takeover by state Control Boards.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Math Games Encourage Practice at Home A partnership with a local teacher supply stores is helping the staff at one Maryland school improve state assessment scores.

More Than a Score members will also pass petitions against the misuse and overuse of testing in CPS at the event and later in the day at local schools.

For example, a student at Lake Woebegone high school might score well above the criterion benchmark, have a national percentile of 60 and a local percentile of 20.

The five A * - C benchmark for Chinese pupils at local authority maintained (LA) schools fell 7.9 per cent, while the similar scores of Chinese pupils in sponsored academies dipped just 0.1 per cent.

While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolSchool Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the schoolschool rating system, the state can take the schoolschool over.

It has also suspended its Academic Performance Index, which allowed parents to see how the test scores achieved by their local school compare with scores at other schools.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

When Principal James Lee learned that his students at Sylmar Charter High School had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of teSchool had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of teschool district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of testing.

When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school,... Read More