Sentences with phrase «statewide average performance»

And by allowing states to limit the definition of consistent underperformance for a group to being in the lowest performance level on an indicator, or being the farthest away from statewide average performance, it undermines the idea — and the Congressional requirement — that any group that is struggling in any school needs help and assured action, not just the very lowest performing groups or groups in a limited number of schools.

Not exact matches

The economic development agency has said the average investment in performance based tax credit for jobs created statewide in 2016 was about $ 9,400 per job.

The average rate of improvement in the New Orleans public schools stood at three to four times the statewide rate, despite persistent poor performance by several schools.

The BOCES report card shall compare such measures of the fiscal performance to statewide averages for all boards of cooperative educational services.

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

The study also compared charter performance to average statewide performance — admittedly, a higher bar, as schools statewide had significantly lower levels of poverty than the charters (and their urban districts).

In fact, the achievement gap has nearly closed in these schools, 94 and Blackstone Valley Prep now exceeds statewide averages on several performance indicators.

Academically, report card data shows HSA - McKinley Park students meet or exceed performance on standardized tests at about the same rates as statewide averages.

A geographically - diverse survey of 75 of the largest school districts statewide — accounting for nearly half of total statewide enrollment — found average teacher compensation that ranged from $ 81,000 to $ 120,000, with no correlation to district performance:

AF claims it has effectively closed the achievement gap by comparing its performance to neighborhood districts and statewide averages.

However, if there is one piece of gold in the rubble, it is that the district's black and Latino students were basically even in performance with the statewide average of black and Latino students, give or take a few percentage points depending on the category.

Data for subgroups, such as children qualifying for free and reduced price lunch, children with disabilities, and children who are learning English, show lower performance at Whitney than for similar children statewide, and Whitney's overall test based performance and growth measured by tests is much lower than state averages.

The only interesting fact is that it seems to have been a rough year for almost all Districts in CT, as statewide, Grades 3 - 8 showed a significant decrease on average, showing potentially some extraneous factor related to this year's test influencing the performance of students.

Tennessee now uses CRTs referenced to statewide averages that were reported in 1998; the purpose of using CRTs in this way is to give schools a constant benchmark against which annual performance can be judged.