Sentences with phrase «stated core purpose»

But the one thing that still binds the coalition is the central plank of their coalition, their stated core purpose, deficit reduction.

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Although the security of its European and North American member states forms its core purposes, a strictly transatlantic or regional view is too narrow to fully describe what NATO does.

«The purpose of the New York State Budget is to provide funding for the core and fundamental operations of New York State government,» Jacobs said.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

Although the core purpose of these sites are similar — to digitally connect with peers and loved ones — new research conducted by researchers in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and King's College in London, England, found users often adopt different personas unique to each social network.

Among other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second - grade social studies standards on the local community context.

The purpose of the Life Vest Inside ™ (hereafter referred to as LVI) curriculum is to attend to the child, reengage him / her with discussions and experiences rooted in kindness, aligned with a theoretical framework to elicit critical thinking, all while attending to the current expectations of curricular instruction in schools framed around the United States Common Core Standards (www.corestandards.org, 2012).

For example, if and when states implement new assessments aligned to the Common Core, it won't really matter for accountability purposes if proficiency rates fall.

The hope is that a block of test items could be developed that all states could use for comparability purposes — a «core of the Core.&racore of the Core.&raCore.»

While it is too early to know how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards will play out over the next several years, the authors point out that most states are already using CCSS - aligned assessments for the purposes of educational accountability.

In an effort to educate parents about the new Common Core State Standards, they created a website that explains the purpose of the Core and details its implementation state by sState Standards, they created a website that explains the purpose of the Core and details its implementation state by sstate by statestate.

Project - based instruction is particularly well suited to addressing more rigorous standards, such as the Common Core State Standards, for example, which call for writing for different tasks, purposes, and audiences.

Back in the fall, the Regents made it clear that for graduation purposes, students would still be able to earn a 65 on new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards in order to graduate.

The purpose of this resource is to help practitioners to reflect on question (s) of assessment practice, the Common Core State Standards, and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DoK) framework by analyzing student assessment work.

The Association of California School Administrators and other education groups have called on the state board to use this year's results essentially as a practice test, without any accountability purpose, because teachers are still being trained in Common Core, and many students have not had any experience with online tests.

The purpose of benchmark assessments is to provide information on group of students and identify where students are with respect to achievement of the Common Core State Standards to date.

Thus, there is no controlling legal authority expressly stating whether costs related to the Common Core Technology Project would constitute the construction, replacement or furnishing and equipping of school facilities for purposes of Proposition 39... the District should remain aware that there is no controlling legal authority expressly stating what constitutes the «equipping of school facilities» for purposes of Proposition 39.

The academic content and performance standards adopted by the state board, including how the programs and services will enable ELs to access the common core academic content standards and the English language development (ELD) for purposes of gaining academic content knowledge and English language proficiency.

A sign of the state's commitment to the Common Core was the agreement by Brown and the state Legislature to allocate $ 1.25 billion for districts to spend on implementing the standards during the 2013 - 14 school year — specifically for professional development, instructional materials, technology upgrades to ensure smooth administration of online assessments, and for other purposes.

With just basic, factual information about the Common Core State Standards and their purpose, voters favor the Common Core over the critics» objections,» said Sandy Boyd, Achieve's Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.

Today, changes to federal accountability policy and the state plans that have been submitted for compliance purposes herald a national shift toward the work the CORE districts have been doing since their waiver was granted.

Date: March 2015 Purpose: to provide support to parents in California to understand the transition to new Common Core aligned assessments Amount: $ 150,000 Term: 6 Topic: College - Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: Oakland, California Grantee Website: http://www.childrennow.org

Date: March 2015 Purpose: to support Common Core implementation Amount: $ 3,701,180 Term: 24 Topic: College - Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: Washington, District of Columbia Grantee Website: http://education.uschamber.com

Date: April 2015 Purpose: RFP for teacher networks, designed to deepen the implementation of the Common Core by leveraging effective tools and strategies; teacher leaders capable of scaling them to teachers in national and local networks; and network / system partnerships Amount: $ 3,510,000 Term: 21 Topic: College - Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: San Francisco, California Grantee Website: http://www.WestEd.org

Date: March 2015 Purpose: to support conferences to deepen teacher understanding of the Common Core standards Amount: $ 500,000 Term: 4 Topic: College - Ready Regions Served: GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA Program: United States Grantee Location: Washington, District of Columbia Grantee Website: http://learnzillion.com

And the state says that «Districts can decide for themselves how to use the funds to train teachers, buy new materials, or purchase technology, all with the purpose of implementing the Common Core State Standards.&rstate says that «Districts can decide for themselves how to use the funds to train teachers, buy new materials, or purchase technology, all with the purpose of implementing the Common Core State Standards.&rState Standards.»

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high - quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on the challenging Common Core State Standards and state academic assessmState Standards and state academic assessmstate academic assessments.

«It's not clear what the formal accountability system will be going forward in the state of California, but from the get - go, the purpose of this more multimeasured, holistic system was about giving schools a more complete picture of how they are performing,» said Noah Bookman, chief accountability officer for CORE.

For transparency purposes, the series will also examine the current educational and curriculum practices from the states that initially chose to adopt Common Core Standards then withdrew, as well as those that never or partially adopted the standards as well.

But in reality, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test is nothing more than an experiment and as Commissioner Pryor and the State Department of Education admit, if parents «insist that the child not be testing» then «in these cases, the district generally does not test the student and the student is counted as «absent» (for purposes of testing).

If adopted by the State Board of Education at its next meeting — April 5, 2017 — the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) test would still be used for a variety of purposes but would play a much more limited role in the teacher evaluation process.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Implementing the Common Core State Standards requires systems of purpose, inquiry, and practice from the district office to the classroom.

Rather, I stated (accurately) that «The Gates Foundation, for example, makes it clear that the foundation supports the use of student test data for educator evaluation even as it declares the need for a two - year moratorium, the purpose of which is to allow teachers the time to adjust to the new Common Core Standards and related tests.»

WASHINGTON — «Amidst all the celebration of a «return to state and local control» surrounding the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, today's proposed regulations are an important reminder that the U.S. Department of Education still has a critical role to play in advancing the law's core purpose: resources and expectations for low - income students, students of color, students with disabilities, and English learners.

orgLib is offered to teachers for preparatory purpose so they can prepare for the transition to common core state standards; it provides greater convenience for teachers to access it from anywhere and prepare for assessments and analyze student results and print worksheets.

HB 5544 Purpose: To support school districts and teachers by supplying them with materials necessary to teach the Common Core State Standards.

Purpose: To allow for necessary changes to the Common Core State Standards.

Systems of purpose create a shared understanding of and commitment to the Common Core State Standards and students» attainment of them.

SB 344 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE PHASE IN OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS AND SMARTER BALANCED ASSESSMENT; Purpose: To phase in the common core state standards and Smarter Balanced assessments in the public schoCORE STATE STANDARDS AND SMARTER BALANCED ASSESSMENT; Purpose: To phase in the common core state standards and Smarter Balanced assessments in the public schSTATE STANDARDS AND SMARTER BALANCED ASSESSMENT; Purpose: To phase in the common core state standards and Smarter Balanced assessments in the public schocore state standards and Smarter Balanced assessments in the public schstate standards and Smarter Balanced assessments in the public schools.

Instead, as is often the case in education, a bad combination of politics, protest and pontification is obscuring the Core's laudable purpose, which is to increase critical thinking and problem - solving skills, better prepare students for colleges and careers — and keep the United States globally competitive.

HB 5137 — AN ACT CONCERNING THE CREATION OF A DATABASE TO COLLECT INFORMATION RELATING TO COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION; Purpose: To create a database to track funds being used to implement the common core state standaCORE STATE STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION; Purpose: To create a database to track funds being used to implement the common core state standSTATE STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION; Purpose: To create a database to track funds being used to implement the common core state standacore state standstate standards.

Purpose: To conduct a study of the effectiveness of the Common Core State Standards to help policymakers evaluate whether and to what extent the Common Core State Standards are working or should be modified.

At its core, the Virginia IEP System will provide functionality as an IEP writer and compliance tool that will afford educators the functionalities necessary to facilitate IEP meetings, develop IEP's, monitor student progress and gather and submit data for state reporting purposes.

Twelve years later, we have produced hundreds of books consisting of English and Spanish editions that are leveled, great for assessment purposes, and correlated for the Common Core State Standards and ELL / dual - language curricula.

The i.MX 7 series delivers world class core power efficiency of 15.7 DMIPS / mW, a new Low Power State Retention mode (LPSR) of 250 μW and the industry's first general purpose microprocessor family to incorporate both the ARM Cortex - A7 and the ARM Cortex - M4 cores.

For perspective, the Waxman - Markey bill aimed to help achieve the Copenhagen climate treaty goal of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gas concentrations at 450 parts per million by 2050.82 A NAAQS requiring states to make a proportionate contribution83 to CO2 stabilization at 350 parts per million and other greenhouse gases at pre-industrial levels in five to ten years would cause the United States to become a single non-attainment area, and the Clean Air Act would function as a no - growth mandate, contradicting a core purpose of the Act: protecting the «productive capacity» of the populatstates to make a proportionate contribution83 to CO2 stabilization at 350 parts per million and other greenhouse gases at pre-industrial levels in five to ten years would cause the United States to become a single non-attainment area, and the Clean Air Act would function as a no - growth mandate, contradicting a core purpose of the Act: protecting the «productive capacity» of the populatStates to become a single non-attainment area, and the Clean Air Act would function as a no - growth mandate, contradicting a core purpose of the Act: protecting the «productive capacity» of the population.84

For us to delay review of a state judicial decision denying enforcement of the contract to arbitrate until the state court litigation has run its course would defeat the core purpose of