Sentences with phrase «state achievement school district»

The state Achievement School District, otherwise known as the ASD, is poised to decide within the next month or so which of five low - performing Nashville middle schools it will take over come the 2015 - 16 school year.

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More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

The same day the state United Teachers union launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign touting school achievement, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office finds most districts are meeting the new requirements under the recently enacted property tax cap, with «high needs» districts showing higher rates of taxation.

The latest entrant last week was the NAACP: A letter from the group, distributed by NYSUT, argued the cap was hurting poor and minority school districts by widening the state's achievement gap.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

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The improved scores were impressive enough to lead several states and other major school districts, including New York, to adopt elements of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) policy — making student progress toward the next grade dependent on demonstrated achievement on standardized tests.

The new law includes provisions implementing a proposal Mr. Bush made in last year's gubernatorial campaign to allow for the creation of «home rule» school districts, which could vote to operate under fewer state regulations in exchange for promising to improve student achievement.

Federal officials have asked states that received awards under the Reading Excellence Act to submit performance reports by the end of this month detailing the progress made in local districts and schools in improving reading achievement.

For the first time, states receiving federal K - 12 education funding would be required to hold districts and schools accountable for the achievement...

In Colorado, the state's 2008 Innovation Schools Act is giving approved schools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting puSchools Act is giving approved schools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting puschools greater flexibility by waiving certain state statutes, district policies, and union contract provisions to help boost student achievement — but it is also getting pushback.

With the tremendous pressure — and guidelines from the federal government, state governments, and local school districts — principals are often not sure what matters most and what will improve academic achievement at their schools, Hood said.

Narrowing the scope of the Chance - for - Success Index to factors both causally related to school achievement and under the control of state education officials or school districts would improve its value and deliver the right signals to states.

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

Across the board at the federal, state, and district level the role of partnerships between home and school is becoming a more important factor in education reform and student achievement, Mapp said.

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

Importantly, the schools attended by students in our sample include both open - enrollment public schools operated by the local school district and five over-subscribed charter schools that have been shown to have large, positive impacts on student achievement as measured by state math and English language arts tests.

In the area of academic achievement, a few years ago the school's fourth graders had the highest scores in the district on the Connecticut Mastery Test, the state's standardized achievement test.

In four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia — there is not a single traditional school district with average student achievement in math above the 50th percentile.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

Or we might discover some schools or districts or states that deserve more credit for their student achievement results, considering their rates of true disadvantage.

Student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 public school districts in the United States compared to students overseas can be found at The Global Report Card's interactive web site.

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

On Top of the News At Critical Moment, State - Run Achievement School District Posts Big Gains At Its Original Schools Chalkbeat Tennessee 7/29/15

The report, «Boosting Performance and Containing Cost through Mayoral Academies,» contrasts the low performance of low - income and minority students and the wide achievement gaps in traditional district schools, and the high performance of low - income and minority students and smaller achievement gaps in high - performing charter schools in neighboring states.

When the Education Achievement Authority (EAA), the state of Michigan's school turnaround district, launched in the fall of 2012 with 15 schools, hopes for rebirth in Detroit were high in many quarters.

Under the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, states must determine each year whether school districts have made «adequate yearly progress» in academic achievement.

The GRC allows users to compare student achievement in virtually every one of the nearly 14,000 school districts in the United States against the achievement in a set of 25 developed countries.

But it's also increasingly clear that the new generation of teacher evaluations have the potential to strengthen instruction, make teaching more attractive work, and raise student achievement on a wide scale — if states and school districts stay the course on reform.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mSchool of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mschool district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

According to the Global Report Card, more than a third of the 30 school districts with the highest math achievement in the United States are actually charter schools.

A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help students reach ambitious academic goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing for greater student achievement.

California auditors released a scathing assessment of the Oakland public schools last week, blasting one of the state's most beleaguered districts for mismanagement and poor student achievement and warning that it is hovering on the brink of serious financial difficulty.

Another goal states that participants would implement approaches to ensure inclusion of all students; implement practices to close the achievement gap; establish means for collaboration between district departments and schools; develop a plan for sharing lessons learned with other district leaders and to complement succession planning.

For example, both the Common Core State Standards effort and the move toward rigorous teacher evaluations could lead to dramatic increases in student achievement, if implemented faithfully by states and school districts.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Almost one - quarter of school districts nationwide and nine states have invested millions of dollars in «one - to - one» laptop programs, hoping the availability of a computer for every student will improve achievement and other skills.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

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The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more accountable for students» academic performance.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.

In Arizona, a state that has always had charter schools that draw middle - class students, there is evidence that, on average at least, charters are not doing any better at raising student achievement than district schools; outside of urban areas, they appear to do a bit worse.

From this perspective, school spending may, in some states or districts, be below what is required to steadily improve student achievement in line with federal requirements for «adequate yearly progress.»

Besides measuring and tracking student achievement, NCLB requires districts and states to respond when schools repeatedly fail to meet improvement expectations.

Faced with budget crunches and federal and state pressure to close achievement gaps and turn around awful schools, many districts are cutting their advanced classes.

Or maybe it's a return to the lamentable pre-NCLB era, where a paucity of assessments and interventions allowed states, districts, and schools to hide achievement gaps and do little in response when they were revealed.

And at Central High School and in the Kansas City district, achievement remained low, despite the substantial additional spending by the state of Missouri.

Whoever wins the 2012 presidential election will set the federal education mandate for states, districts and schools, but the true test will be whether America can successfully close the domestic and international achievement gaps facing U.S. students.