Sentences with phrase «stakes for school»

But those days of relatively relaxed test - taking for students and limited stakes for school districts and teachers are long gone.

The stakes for school board members are far more attenuated than are those for investors, while superintendents are rarely evaluated on issues like market share or cost efficiency.

The federal «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 brings these tenets front and center by raising the stakes for schools and principals across the country.

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 school over.

The higher stakes for schools are just starting to illuminate the extent of our high - school - completion problems.

It is not possible to to validly assess «value added» from tests like KS2 SATs and GCSE, which are so high stakes for the schools in terms of DfE floor targets and the misuse of the data by OfSTED.

Because student performance on the state ELA and math tests is used to calculate scores on the Teacher Data Reports, the tests are high - stakes for teachers; and because New York City uses a similar statistical strategy to rank schools, they are high - stakes for schools as well.

The elimination of the gap standard for law schools drastically raises the stakes for all schools now willing to accept students with low LSAT scores or undergraduate GPAs.

Not exact matches

As the Children's Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at stake for home schoolers in particular and liberty in general.

Because specialization sets the terms for a faculty member's participation in the life of a school, it is perhaps the most powerful structure at work in faculty life: the faculty member's existence and legitimation are at stake when his or her field is threatened.

A bill in Congress pushes for pizza and french fries on school lunch line, and our children's health could be at stake.

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But in the long term, it's important to remember that school lunch will change for the better when we all have a stake in the system.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

But since then, several Regents have been replaced by ones who are critical of high stakes testing and penalties for schools that aren't performing well.

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.

Between the short time frame to demonstrate improvement and the higher stakes around teacher evaluations this year, teachers are fleeing struggling schools for schools where things aren't so bad, officials said Wednesday at a hearing in Albany.

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

She echoed the union's concerted push for more school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.

Cuomo relayed his readiness for such a high - stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.

Michelle Schimel (D - Port Washington) rallies on March 23, 2015, in support of more funds for schools and against the governor's emphasis on high - stakes testing.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

With control of the Buffalo School Board at stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up for grabs.

Ms. Teachout advocates raising the minimum wage, increasing funding for public schools and eliminating high - stakes testing.

Hawkins chose to announce in front of the NYC Board of Education to highlight his call for adequate funding for public schools and an end to high - stakes testing.

Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter schools, pushed high - stakes testing and undermined public schools.

Consistent with his party's platform, Hawkins opposes fracking, favors heavier taxes on the rich, criticizes high - stakes public school testing and calls for a return to state revenue - sharing to relieve property taxes.

Hawkins supports fully funding public schools and opposes Cuomo's push for high stakes testing, charter schools, and centralized control of the education system.

Hawkins had harsh criticisms for Cuomo's education agenda for shortchanging funding for public education, pushing high - stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter schools over public schools.

Bloomberg also staked out other stands sharply at variance with those of the teacher's union, calling for merit pay, an increase in charter schools and shutting down more schools he considers failing.

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

He was slated to advocate fully funding and desegregating public schools, ending high - stakes testing, and providing a quality education for all students, according to his campaign.

«I am appealing to all those who care about women's equality, fracking, Albany corruption, clean energy, full and equal funding of schools, the end of high stakes testing, and all the other progressive values Ms. Teachout stood for in her campaign to vote for me on election day,» Hawkins said in a statement.

Many lawmakers have been asking for a delay in the implementation, and to put off the consequences of the high stakes tests for school children for another couple of years.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

That could give Democrats some leverage when it comes time to negotiate criminal justice reforms - but, there are so many other major issues at stake for Democrats including a minimum wage increase, renewing mayoral control of schools, the sunset of rent laws, and The DREAM Act, that there is a chance that the debate could be overshadowed yet again.

But it calls for a delay in using the test results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools.

«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litigation.

Parents intervene for everything from grades to discipline problems at school because the stakes are so high.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

In Step, her joyous, pulsating portrait of the «Lethal Ladies» step dancing team of the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, director Amanda Lipitz documents the team's high - stakes senior year of high school in inner - city BaltSchool for Young Women, director Amanda Lipitz documents the team's high - stakes senior year of high school in inner - city Baltschool in inner - city Baltimore.

Starting with the genuinely spooky image of Soviet paratroopers cascading onto an open field behind a Spokane high school, Milius» film thoroughly imagines an American city transformed by invasion and occupation, which raises the stakes for the plucky young guerrilla warriors who lead a rebellion from the mountains.

As for the Bond - homaging, a ski - resort interlude tugs its forelock towards the great 007 snow - scenes of yore, but ends with a runaway cablecar sequence that's straight from the Die Another Day school of leaden, low - stakes CGI.

In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar for his project, The Long - Run Influence of School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college preparSchool Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college preparschool accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college preparschool can complement college preparation.

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.