Sentences with phrase «students on a statewide basis»

The state gave practice tests last year, but the results were not publicly released, making today's numbers the first temperature - taking of students on a statewide basis that can be used for comparative purposes in the years ahead.

Not exact matches

Basically, a new committee of teacher volunteers from across the state would review all exam questions after the items had been tried out on a pilot basis in «field tests» conducted among sample groups of students statewide.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

The report outlines how a mandatory Statewide Interdistrict Open Enrollment Program would work to end the damaging practice of assigning students to schools based solely on where their families can afford to live.

Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases teacher pay on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Using student - level data from two states, Harvard Professor Martin West and I found that 40 to 60 percent of schools serving mostly low - income or underrepresented minority students would fall into the bottom 15 percent of schools statewide based on their average test scores, but only 15 to 25 percent of these same schools would be classified as low performing based on their test - score growth.

While some officials have raised questions about whether the state can reimburse only certain districts for statewide budget cuts, the Governor has agreed to a reimbursement plan that would screen districts based on their property value per student.

The study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on statewide tests in reading, math, and writing achievement.

Further changes are promised for subsequent years, including student - growth data based on statewide assessments.

That system, like many under development around the country, will be based in part on how a teacher's students perform on statewide standardized tests.

Our analysis is based on statewide, student - level longitudinal data obtained from the Arizona Department of Education (AZDOE) that contains information on test scores, school enrollment, and student characteristics for the 2005 - 06 through 2011 - 12 school years.

The report also quantified the use of student performance measures known as «student growth objectives» (SGOs) that were based on more classroom - based assessments and not statewide standardized tests.

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

Some favor a simple letter - grade system for schools based on student achievement on annual statewide tests.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

For example, in Kajoshaj v. New York City Department of Education (2013), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a civil rights suit of a Muslim student of Albanian descent who was retained for a second year in the fifth grade based on deficient performance on the statewide language arts test.

In the 2015 - 16 school year, 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation will be based on much students improve on a statewide M - STEP test that will have only been given twice, one short of the three years originally envisioned under the teacher tenure law.

That became official federal policy when the Obama administration called for statewide teacher evaluation guidelines, based in part on student performance, while soliciting for Race To The Top in 2009 and then No Child Left Behind waiver applications in 2011.

Beginning with the 2014 - 2015 school year and each school year thereafter, student learning growth based upon performance on statewide assessments under s. 1008.22 must have significantly improved compared to student learning growth in the district in 2011 - 2012 and significantly improved compared to other school districts.

Mooney, a former education writer for The Star Ledger and The Record before launching the magazine, described the effort to enact a markedly different statewide evaluation program, where at least 50 - percent of the rating criteria must be based on student performance.

Based on the spring results of the California Smarter Balanced assessments, the Los Angeles Unified School District recently announced that 55 percent of the district's magnet students met or exceeded state standards in English / language arts, compared with 39 percent in charters, 33 percent in the LAUSD overall, and 44 percent in traditional schools statewide.

Legislative action Thursday clears the way for California schools to begin statewide student testing based on the new common core curriculum beginning in the spring of 2015.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

Within range of or exceeding predicted performance based on similar student populations statewide, in either of the last two years, based on CCSA's metric, the Similar Students Measure.

Money to pay for new voucher students would come out of the budget of public schools that are losing students, and be prorated statewide based on applications instead of a set amount as it is now.

For private schools, the tuition rate for elementary students may not exceed the average per - pupil cost on a statewide basis.

Within range of or exceeding predicted performance based on similar student populations statewide, for at least two out of the last three years, based on CCSA's metric, the Similar Students Measure.

Immediately following Act 10, the governor pursued a statewide teacher evaluation system that would have been based mostly on student test scores.

In the first study, I examine the antecedents of racial and special education - based disparities in disciplinary outcomes using statewide, student - level panel data on all students attending pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in Indiana, between 2009 and 2014.

Schools get what they need, based on need and the statewide commitment to support all students equitably.

«The statewide accountability system shall be based on the challenging State academic standards for reading or language arts and mathematics to improve student academic achievement and school success.

Recommendations for Policy and Practice in New Hampshire: This publication is the product of 34 interviews, two virtual meetings, and a statewide meeting on how New Hampshire can enhance opportunities for students with disabilities in their statewide competency - based education effort.

Third, AB 5 repeals California's statewide requirement that principal job performance evaluations be based in part on student growth.

The student is or will be participating in his or her statewide alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards.

Student progress on locally based measures would account for 15 percent of the rating for teachers whose subjects are not covered by statewide tests.

(3) In any fiscal year, if the board determines based on student performance data collected pursuant to section 1I, said district is in the lowest 10 per cent of all statewide student performance scores released in the 2 consecutive school years before the date the charter school application is submitted, the school district's total charter school tuition payment to commonwealth charter schools may exceed 9 per cent of the district's net school spending but shall not exceed 18 per cent.

County and Statewide Totals Notes: Statewide and county totals include counts of students attending education classes on a full - time basis outside their parents» district of residence.

Based on current trends, 1 out of every 4 students statewide — and as many as half of all students in the state's largest districts — won't be able to graduate from high school on time and prepared for college.

In Ohio, for instance, the state legislature voted in 2014 to decrease the weighting for student growth from 50 to 42.5 percent of a teacher's evaluation.61 In New Jersey, the governor mandated that student performance on statewide exams account for 10 percent — a significant decrease from the previously adopted 30 percent — of a teacher's evaluation in the 2014 — 15 school year.62 Indiana, Hawaii, and Maryland have also decreased the weighting of test - based student growth in teacher evaluations.63 64 65

Lawmakers had expressed concerns with the system — which assigns each school a letter grade based on their students» performance on statewide tests — well before an Associated Press story raised fundamental questions about how former schools chief Tony Bennett's staff calculated of the 2012 grades.

New Hampshire has a statewide competency - based education and assessment system, requiring all students to complete competency - based pathways to graduate and demonstrate their mastery of knowledge and skills, rather than just accumulate credits based on seat time.

The student growth trend rating of high, expected or low will be based on professional judgment and three years of data — student growth percentiles on state K - PREP tests (how much a class improves from one grade level to the next comparing students in the class to their academic peers statewide) or rigorous, locally determined student growth goals, developed collaboratively between the teacher and evaluator.

However, although all of the previous statistics are provided through the BASIS charter website, the results on the Arizona standardized exam, AzMerit, support the trend of the provided information: on the 2016 exam, the statewide percentage of students grades 5 through 11 had a passing rate on the mathematics portion of anywhere between 26 - 46 % and a passing rate on the English language arts portion of anywhere between 29 - 45 % (Department Releases Preliminary 2015 - 2016 State Level AzMerit Results).

Following a statewide ranking system put into place in 2012, for the first time 20 percent of her evaluation score was tied to local tests and 20 percent was based on whether students progressed on state tests administered every spring.

California officials reject federal government's push to administer old science tests California education officials have decided that students will take only one statewide standardized test in science this spring, a pilot test based on new standards known as the Next Generation Science Standards.

Virginia public schools receive annual accountability ratings based on the performance of students on Standards of Learning (SOL) tests and other statewide assessments:

My take on this is that most people I know would trade local control of funding for a statewide funding system that supplied equal funding per student, provided there was in place a credible performance based cost system.

Burke supports keeping the voucher programs in Milwaukee and Racine but has called the statewide program an «entitlement program,» based on the low number of students in it who were not previously attending public schools.