Sentences with phrase «scores of school closures»

West Virginia, like other states with dropping student enrollments, has seen scores of school closures — nearly 300 over the past 15 years.

Not exact matches

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

While traditional schools are rarely closed for poor performance, charters live with a realistic threat of closure should their tests scores falter.

But as Matthew Ladner of the Charles Koch Institute argues, the state's sector has found balance — in part because of an aggressive period of school closures between 2012 and 2016 — and now boasts rapidly increasing scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, particularly among Hispanic students (see «In Defense of Education's «Wild West,»» features, Spring 2018).

Consistent with written state policies, we find that the School Performance Score is the strongest measurable driver of closure and renewal decisions.

In the GOP Assembly plan, both the board and DPI would establish criteria to determine a school's letter grade, including test scores on math and reading, graduation and attendance rates, and the closure of achievement gaps between groups of students.

I base that claim on the evidence from other research that the main tool for portfolio management — test scores — are simply not strong enough predictors of later life outcomes to allow even benevolent managers to accurately identify bad schools for closure and good schools for expansion.

All 15 schools marked for closure are east of Rock Creek Park, many of them east of the Anacostia River in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, and all had below - average test scores.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

kid speakers (possible topics: what opt out has meant to them, learning in a test - prep - heavy environment, learning in a non-test-prep-heavy environment, attending a school where test score - based closure is imminent, the experience of testing days, how their family found out about opt out, etc)

One piece that is glaringly clear for me is there is no mention of eliminating the use of tests scores used to label schools as failing and set on a path of closure.

But he directed much of his ire at the plan itself: Mandating that schools improve while holding the threat of closure over their heads, and at the same time trying to «bypass» district governance, creates the wrong atmosphere for schools to actually improve largely on the basis of test scores, he argued.

Peshine is one of a dozen schools Anderson targeted last year for closure, consolidation or renewal because of low enrollment and low test scores.

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind.

So, when researchers looked at test scores four years after a school closure, displaced students had generally comparable scores on state math exams to scores of their non-displaced peers.

In NYC, where I'm most familiar with school closures, the school is not just renamed, or given a new principal — those kids are strewn elsewhere, and the replacement school (s) serve an entirely different set of kids (often with higher incoming test scores).

For almost two decades, scores on math and reading tests have dominated how success was defined in American schools; low test scores led to the restructuring — and in some cases closure — of schools across the country under No Child Left Behind law.

Because NYC schools risk receivership and even closure based on test scores, because state test scores are the variable used in awarding free SHSAT preparation, because the city publishes school - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquschool - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquSchool Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize&raquschool curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize» it.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.

In 2006, many students in the six local high schools in Alamance County, North Carolina, were struggling academically and one high school was threatened with closure because of low test scores.

This study examines the impact of school closures on student test scores and attendance rates.

Results of the study suggest that students displaced by school closures can experience adverse effects on test scores and attendance; however, these effects can be minimized when students move to substantially higher - performing schools.