Sentences with phrase «state policymakers»

This primer is created for state policymakers seeking to modify instruction and assessment policies to better engage today's students.

While each report begins with that research, it is modified through an extensive series of meetings with state policymakers and education professionals.

This issue brief is intended to assist state policymakers in better understanding strategies to prepare students with disabilities and special needs for college and career.

This underscores the urgency of state policymakers taking steps to address our housing affordability crisis.

The second panel focused more broadly on trends in care and coverage and made recommendations for national and state policymakers on how to improve the system for overall success.

That, in turn, has led many state policymakers to try to reduce or remove student growth from teacher evaluation systems.

But the new federal law, while it decentralized authority to states, didn't make all of the problems faced by state policymakers disappear.

But it can also be said that investing in higher education benefits society as a whole, and that is the matter state policymakers need to focus on.

We encourage state policymakers to stay the course on these important reforms.

If state policymakers expand voucher programs, this could increase the tax burden of citizens, especially those living in rural communities and small school districts with fewer students.

But advocates for medical marijuana have pushed state policymakers to expand the program that so far has certified more than 7,000 patients and registered nearly 700 doctors.

A casual glance at newspaper headlines across the country reveals the wide range of issues that state policymakers consider when addressing that question.

Many state policymakers realize this and hope that a coordinated system will send clear signals to local educators.

For all their complexity and variation, turnaround districts have two things in common: One, they give impatient state policymakers a potentially powerful new tool for dealing with perennial school dysfunction.

In 2017, state policymakers modified the requirements for the graduating class of 2018 only to provide additional options.

It suggests six principles to guide state policymakers toward effective, balanced policies.

This fact sheet provides a guide for state policymakers to improve their most struggling schools.

Support the development and preparation of materials and resources to educate health centers and partners on state policy issues and to be tailored for use in meetings with state policymakers.

Not all of these have a clear relationship to postsecondary success, and several are beyond the control of state policymakers.

The sizeable drop in incarceration has resulted largely from a series of policy changes adopted by state policymakers and the voters in the wake of the federal court order.

If state policymakers and education officials let content standards slip, low standards will damage a state's reputation for having a trained workforce.

According to the official announcement, the site is intended to help state policymakers better understand the growing practice of unbundling of legal services, in which lawyers partner with a client to accomplish discrete tasks rather than provide complete representation, and pro se - or self - representation.

This report provides a resource to inform design and implementation decisions as state policymakers embark on the task of creating their next generation accountability systems.

I hope that my findings provide state policymakers with an understanding of how private interests can contribute to our system of higher education, and decisionmakers in India with a sense of how their approach to community college might benefit from a stronger state role.»

How School Districts Could Be Laboratories of Improvement (Brookings) Op - ed co-written by Tom Kane on what state policymakers should do to improve student achievement.

It provides perspectives and advice from state policymakers and virtual school providers navigating through the new and often murky policy waters of online - only education, and features insights from e-educators in the trenches of vitual schooling.

If you were to ask many state policymakers about this problem, they would likely say that it's a legacy of colleges and universities historically being funded based on how many students they enroll.

The following LPI publications are valuable resources for state policymakers looking to address teacher shortages and build a strong and stable teacher workforce.

If state policymakers want to dampen the regressive distributional effects of the 529 expansion, or enhance its impact on school choice, or both, what options do they have?

This report authored by Californians Together and funded by The California Community Foundation, reports on data gathered from 40 school districts on English learners grades 6 — 12 and calls upon state policymakers and leaders to provide solutions for these students.

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With 43 states (including the District of Columbia) currently operating under a waiver, recent years have seen substantial movement among state policymakers to develop systems — or improve existing ones — to evaluate the current performance of teachers in a fair and objective manner.

As state policymakers make changes to these two systems, they should think carefully about the role that each plays and avoid creating conflicting or misaligned incentives between teachers and schools.

Overview This study mission for state policymakers focused on how policies can strengthen the alignment of expectations and resources across the educational pipeline so that young people complete high school prepared to succeed in a range of postsecondary education opportunities.

And it would help do both by giving state policymakers more ownership of (and therefore more pride in) the mundane work of everyday governance, even as it redirected the attention and the self - regard of national political leaders toward national questions.

By Sean Ryan Builders and manufacturers have only one more chance to convince state policymakers that new runoff and phosphorus rules will cost too much money.

«As local and state policymakers decide whether to allow hydraulic fracturing in their communities, it is crucial that they carefully examine the costs and benefits, including the potential impacts from pollution,» said study co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.

In contrast, placing equity into the accountability context would put state policymakers in the role of telling districts or schools how to spend their money, forcing all schools to spend the same amount of money on the same things.

Competency - based education pilot programs provide a reasonable and actionable first step for state policymakers seeking to advance competency - based education.

While state policymakers often try to base funding allocations to districts on «costs,» the fact is that costs and revenues are interdependent.

State policymakers often lack information necessary to measure key outcomes from workforce development programs.

In my experience, most state policymakers — who have been busy slashing outlays and who are eyeballing several tough budget cycles ahead — have no idea that supporting Common Core standards means that they're signing up for large new outlays for implementation and assessment.

The problem with these non-regulatory signals is that state policymakers crave and perhaps deserve the clarity and certitude of formal rules.

«Work Matters: A Framework for States on Workforce Development for People with Disabilities» represents the culmination of a yearlong joint task force effort of state policymakers convened by NCSL and the Council of State Governments (CSG) to address barriers to employment and develop policy solutions to build a thriving workforce that is disability inclusive.