Sentences with phrase «students hit state»

My school hired a part time science teacher to come and help our students hit state science targets.

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A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.

He captured the Public Links championship of the United States last week by hitting some marvelous iron shots and one - putting 12 greens to bring down little Gene Towry, a laconic 28 - year - old student in electrical engineering at SMU.

State Sen. Eddie Lucio (D - Brownsville) hit significant opposition during the recent legislative session when he proposed eliminating the machines in elementary schools and restricting older students» access.

He also referenced the fact that New York is now one of three states placed on a watch list for losing hundreds of millions of Race to the Top dollars by US Education Secretary Arne Duncan because it has «hit a roadblock» on significant policy provisions of qualifying for the aid, including establishment of the peformance evaluation system and creation of a database to track student records across school districts.

New York was one of seven states earlier this week whose student tests were hit by what was reportedly a «deliberate attack» on the computer system operated by Questar, an outside vendor.

The state Education Department dropped the number of raw points needed to hit proficiency levels in six of the 12 English and math exams given to students in grades 3 to 8, officials acknowledged.

With the political winds seemingly at its back, New York City's charter school movement staged a splashy rally in Albany with an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop star.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman hit Trump University with a class - action fraud lawsuit after students complained the school promised to pair them with «handpicked experts» who would share the secrets of Trump's real estate prowess, but never did.

The war hits home with the deaths of four Kent State students at the hands of the Ohio National Guard.

Justin Simien's debut film — a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival — looks at the state of race relations on the campus of Winchester University through the lives of four black students.

A head of department at a state secondary school in Leicestershire, said: «I have been physically assaulted twice (both times violent behaviour was aimed at another student but in their rage hit me) and sexually assaulted twice (groping).

The state wants all students to hit 200 on the state's overall performance index, which would result in nearly all students achieving proficiency on indicators.

For instance, it takes a history teacher who, when developing a class that covers the use of water throughout U.S. history, also hits on the skills and content students need to pass the New York State Regents test.

In Detroit, a city thats been hit hard by the downturn in the state and now federal economy, financial pressures constantly weigh on students and their families.

Grammy - nominated singer - songwriter Montell Jordan (who recorded the # 1 hit «This is How We Do It») sat down with students in the school's state - of - the - art music technology lab.

Big assessment decisions will hit the states The past year saw states ramping up for a new reality under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which places far greater leeway and oversight in state's hands rather than residing with the feds.

A state could, for example, issue a credential for Algebra once a student demonstrates mastery on something like 45 of the 51 related skills — regardless of how old they are when that hit that milestone.

Throw in our country's percentage of English - language learners (ELLs), which ranges from 10 to 25 percent of our K — 12 population (depending on the state), and you have an issue that requires precise scaffolding to help prepare our students to hit grade - level speaking expectations.

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The overall result: since the recession hit at the end of 2007, revenue growth nationally has averaged only about 1.5 percent above inflation annually — far from enough to make up for declining state support and rising student enrollment.

The Education Trust, for example, is urging states to use caution in choosing «comparative» growth models, including growth percentiles and value - added measures, because they don't tell us whether students are making enough progress to hit the college - ready target by the end of high school, or whether low - performing subgroups are making fast enough gains to close achievement gaps.

We begin by stating the target or goal and then I help the student brainstorm strategies to hit that target.

States where tracking isn't practiced as much had fewer students hitting a passing score of 3 or higher on AP tests.

By a vote of 9 - 2, the 11 - member panel, known as BESE, adopted a plan proposed by state Superintendent John White that will require private schools to hit roughly the same academic bar that public schools do in order to continue accepting more students through the program.

Utah's last - in - nation spending on students fell even further Education» Analysis shows state's schools took bigger hit than most during recession.

During Roses» first year, however, few students hit the proficiency mark on state standardized tests.

Sadie Wells, 20, of Kaysville was killed when a bus carrying 32 Cumberland Valley School District students hit the car she was riding in as the front passenger, according to Pennsylvania State Police in Carlisle.

The Trump administration hit the pause button late Friday on a host of Obama administration regulations, including one detailing how accountability and state plans will work under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

The proposed legislation, which hits the House floor this afternoon, would have two key effects: prohibit the possibility of engaging in a new, substantial mechanism to compare NC students» academic performance with that of students in other states; and authorize the creation of a review commission composed of parents, educators, and other stakeholders to review alternative standards and recommend them for adoption.

Stier says that the poorest 25 percent of school districts in the state are still educating students with $ 104 less per student than before the recessionary budget cuts hit.

«Teacher attrition hits states and school districts in the wallet, but students and teachers pay the real price,» said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia.

I, like so many teachers across our great state, can tell you with great joy the hundreds of examples of ordinary students doing extraordinary things in the classroom; Tell you the time when tears filled my eyes, when life hit a student like a ton of bricks, and give you the names of kids who were the first in their family to go to college.

Achieve's report found that more than half the states had a gap of 30 percentage points or more between the higher percentages of students scoring proficient on state tests compared with the lower number hitting what the national assessment tests deem as proficient in 2013 - 14.

When Jen stepped up to become CEO in 2012, she already had a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the state's students and she was able to hit the ground running.

At an Assembly Education Committee hearing last week, for example, a bill Walker backs that would allow parents of special education students to use state tax dollars to pay for private school tuition hit significant roadblocks.

In his March 15 op - ed, «Confronting the Scheme to Gamble With Connecticut Special Education Funds,» Robert Cotto Jr. makes a number of factually inaccurate claims, and uses a «greatest hits» compilation of logical fallacies, to argue against the creation of a Special Education Predictable Cost Cooperative, which will protect students, improve cost predictability, and increase equity for our state's school districts and communities.

Twenty - nine states still provide less total school funding per student than in 2008, before the Great Recession hit.

In 2015, at least 30 states were funding their schools at lower levels than they had before the Great Recession, with those serving the neediest students often the hardest hit.

If the State somehow manages to reduce the need for student loan consolidation, they may be able to hit two birds with one stone.

With student loan debt recently hitting $ 1.3 trillion, a lot of people are blaming things like the rising cost of tuition, administrative bloat and infrastructure overspending at colleges, and cutbacks in state funding for the crisis.While all of these factors play a significant role in the problem, they all focus on things that are beyond -LSB-...]

With student loan debt recently hitting $ 1.3 trillion, a lot of people are blaming things like the rising cost of tuition, administrative bloat and infrastructure overspending at colleges, and cutbacks in state funding for the crisis.

Medical assisting is one of the fastest - growing professions, and the flexible associate degree program at Mountain State University (MSU) gets its students ready to hit the ground running when they enter the work force.