Sentences with phrase «students under this waiver»

[ix] Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

Additionally, given the overrepresentation of Black students in the Intellectual disability category, it is likely that Black students would be overrepresented among students instructed and assessed outside of their grade level, raising additional concerns about the civil rights of students under this waiver request.

Not exact matches

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.

Under the GOP plan, tuition waivers for graduate students who work as research or teaching assistants would be considered taxable income.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has officially ended the era of No Child Left Behind and the subsequent forms that it took under Secretary Duncan's waiver regime.

States must consider n - size alongside how they permit schools to combine data over grade levels, school years, and / or groups of students — strategies many states have been using under NCLB waivers and that first - round states have included in their ESSA plans.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

Five of these districts, operating under a U.S. Department of Education waiver, began collecting measures of growth mindset, among other socio - emotional skills, for all of the students between 3rd and 11th grade, through surveys.

Writing about Illinois» newly approved NCLB waiver, it breathlessly reported that, «Under a dramatic new approach to rating public schools, Illinois students of different backgrounds no longer will be held to the same standards — with Latinos and blacks, low - income children and other groups having lower targets than whites for passing state exams, the Tribune has found.»

Under NCLB, all schools were accountable for the proficiency of all subgroups of students, whereas under the Obama administration's waivers, only the bottom tranche of schools face consequeUnder NCLB, all schools were accountable for the proficiency of all subgroups of students, whereas under the Obama administration's waivers, only the bottom tranche of schools face consequeunder the Obama administration's waivers, only the bottom tranche of schools face consequences.

In states operating Title I programs under ESEA accountability waivers, curriculum content standards and assessments must meet the additional requirement of evaluating whether students are «college and career - ready.»

Increased state flexibility and experimentation with federal guidance under waivers from federal law, shifting to even greater state control of accountability systems design under the Every Student Succeeds Act

A new paper by USC assistant professor (and Emerging Education Policy Scholar) Morgan Polikoff and his colleagues finds that many of the state accountability systems approved under the waivers continue to rely predominantly on proficiency rates instead of individual student progress over time.

If the states fail to follow through, they could lose their waivers and return to requirements many considered oppressive under NCLB, including having all students reading and doing math on grade level.

It also eliminates the requirement under the Obama administration's NCLB waiver program that states evaluate teacher performance based on, in part, student test score growth.

In addition, before this last - minute waiver request to lower the bar further, on November 29th a host of advocates wrote to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos urging her to «to reject New York's requested waivers under ESSA... If granted, these waivers would undermine students» access to the general curriculum and would be contrary to the spirit and intent of the ESSA.»

The Politics K - 12 Team at Education Week surveyed all 50 states regarding their use of «super subgroups» in their NCLB waivers that «can no longer be used in place of individual subgroups of student for accountability purposes» under ESSA.

Under a waiver from NCLB approved earlier this month, the goal is for 50 percent of students to score proficient on the new state reading test and 65 percent to score proficient on the new state math test by 2017.

As states and districts work to develop new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, six California districts who received federal waivers under the Obama administration are getting the first hints of how more holistic accountability systems might work.

Two years later, the administration gave states the opportunity to apply for waivers that exempted them from a federal requirement under No Child Left Behind that 100 percent of American students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.

Under its new plan to comply with the federal law called the Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA: for explainers, see here and here), New York has requested a waiver to let it give students with moderate to severe cognitive disabilities tests that are not at their grade level but at their developmental level.

At a glance, student performance at the three schools does not provide many clues as to why Edgewood and Pine are called out for interventions under waivers but not NCLB, while the reverse is true for Knapp.

Some worry both the waivers from and the re-write of No Child Left Behind will dial back the government's commitment to help these under - served students.

Virginia, under No Child Left Behind Act flexibility waivers granted by USED, established annual measurable objectives (AMOs) in reading and mathematics for reducing proficiency gaps between students in the commonwealth's lowest - performing and highest - performing schools.

Harkin would prefer to require states to set student achievement goals, as some states now do under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers.

Under waivers to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the federal government required states to identify schools where targeted subgroups of students have the lowest achievement and to implement reforms in these «Focus Schools.»

«Given the lack of broad - based stakeholder input into the waiver, the unrealistic timelines for implementing the teacher evaluation system under the waiver, the lack of research - based support for evaluating teachers based on student performance on state tests, and the dearth of vetted alternative measures of student learning available to use for teachers other than those teaching grades 5 - 9 reading and math, we recommend the Legislature delay taking action to implement the waiver's teacher evaluation system requirements, and urge the commissioner to continue to negotiate for more flexibility in the waiver regarding the teacher evaluation requirements, as well as to seek an extension from USDE regarding the timeline under which to implement the new system,» Eaton testified.

(Calif.) California schools with only a quarter of their students coming from low - income households would be allowed to spend federal Title I money on schoolwide programs, under a waiver process pending before the state board of education.

As mentioned in last week's Capitol Connection, Harkin's bill eliminates the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) model and allows states to use the accountability and teacher evaluation systems in place under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers or to create new systems that establish their own student academic performance standards.

The Governor's bill allows charter schools to stop using an enrollment lottery if they get a waiver from the commissioner of education and use their new authority to recruit students from under - represented populations.

These include schools in which at least 40 percent of students are in poverty, schools that receive a waiver from that 40 - percent threshold, and certain schools that received waivers under the School Improvement Grant program.

Eight large urban school districts in California will open the school year with new flexibility to reduce the emphasis on standardized tests and set their own standards for student success, under an unprecedented waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act that the U.S. Department of Education granted on Tuesday.

States may also wish to set learning targets that account for where students start, as some did under the NCLB waiver initiative.23 Under this initiative, most states set targets that cut the achievement gap in half over six yunder the NCLB waiver initiative.23 Under this initiative, most states set targets that cut the achievement gap in half over six yUnder this initiative, most states set targets that cut the achievement gap in half over six years.

CORE, along with a majority of states, has been operating under a federal waiver program that offered relief from the demands of NCLB in exchange for a number of conditions — one of them was to create new systems for student achievement and school accountability.

Despite concerns of critics, California's State Board of Education, keenly aware of the financial stress schools are under, has since 2009 almost routinely approved class size waivers for scores of districts facing fiscal penalties under existing law generally aimed at keeping no more than 30 students in a classroom.

While good in theory, SES had many implementation problems, 12 including low participation rates and lack of quality control.13 In some districts, there were scandals involving providers overcharging districts, hiring tutors with criminal records, or violating federal regulations.14 In all districts, SES siphoned off Title I funds, leaving less for other important Title I programs.15 The tutoring program was eventually phased out as the Department of Education began implementing «ESEA Flexibility,» 16 also known as waivers, and it was scrapped all together under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).17

Under the new system, educator and principal success will now be linked to student achievement, a hotly - contested method among unions that was at the heart of disagreements with past California «No Child» waiver requests.

Proficiency Gap Groups — Student subgroups used to identify Focus schools under Virginia's flexibility waiver.

Students under age 24 are eligible for a waiver of the monthly maintenance fee while enrolled in a high school or in a college, university or vocational program.

Students under age 24 are eligible for waiver of this fee while enrolled in high school, college or a vocational program.

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