Sentences with phrase «system under a waiver»

Critics also pointed out that the new accountability systems under the waivers may hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

As California supports districts statewide to embark on this improvement journey, there are important lessons to be learned from the CORE districts, six of which developed an innovative accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

I would add that the new accountability systems under the waivers can all too easily hide deficiencies in the performance of children in previously closely watched sub-groups and may weaken incentives to improve performance of those children.

Chronic absence is also included in the state's achievement compacts, a part of its accountability system under a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

«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.

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continue a system under which districts can obtain a waiver to serve some grain foods (breads, pastas, etc.) that are not «whole grain - rich,» if they can show hardship in meeting a 100 percent whole - grain rich standard;

New York committed to the evaluation system and to controversial Common Core learning standards under the federal Race to the Top grant and in waivers under the broad federal No Child Left Behind education law.

The majority of school districts, 606 of them, are using that existing teacher and principal evaluation system, having gotten a waiver letting them to push back implementing the new, Cuomo - backed system — under which teachers are scored on a matrix — until September 2016.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

Under the American constitutional system, officials of the Executive branch should carry out the current law as it is, not engage in back - door legislating through conditional waivers.

States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated, but consistent, school accountability regime with a hodgepodge of complex school grading systems that are as diverse as the states themselves.

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.

The Department of Public Instruction developed the system — which identifies schools as «focus» and «priority» — to obtain a waiver from requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which for the past decade has resulted in sanctions for certain schools.

No one wants to see Indiana lose the waiver because it would mean going back to the rigid accountability system that was in place under No Child Left Behind.

Data dashboards can help alleviate some of the shortcomings in accountability systems that have been in place in the wake of NCLB and the systems that states have implemented under waivers to that law.

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.

So it isn't exactly shocking to see U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's move yesterday to issue a letter to state school superintendents in waiver states asking them to «incorporate, to a significant degree» more - accurate graduation rate data as part of the hodgepodge of new accountability systems approved under the waiver gambit.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

Under its proposal, which was revised and re-submitted in May, the waiver would be extended to any other district or charter school system in the state that agrees to follow its guidelines.

States that already have evaluation systems in place under their waiver plans do not have to change them.

GENE WILHOIT: What we will have is a group of states who, if successful in getting a waiver, will be operating under this system and another group of states who will be operating under No Child Left Behind.

Such a system - wide charter status under the control of DCSD is, we fear, a pretense useful only for DCSD to obtain more waivers and divert more funds to the central office.

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.

Designed to serve three purposes, the School Performance Profile will be used for federal accountability for Title I schools under the state's approved federal No Child Left Behind waiver, the new teacher and principal evaluation system that was signed into law in 2012 and to provide the public with information on how public schools across Pennsylvania are academically performing.

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.

Texas, New Hampshire, Minnesota and New York are among those that have also developed more holistic school accountability models under the waiver umbrella and officials in those states have reported that they believe their systems align well with the goals of ESSA.

With 43 states (including the District of Columbia) currently operating under a waiver, recent years have seen substantial movement among state policymakers to develop systems — or improve existing ones — to evaluate the current performance of teachers in a fair and objective manner.

Given this requirement to adopt a test - based teacher evaluation system, Texas» chosen waiver route appears to be a better choice for Texas educators than if the state pursued a waiver under the administration's waiver program.

Based on an analysis of states» waiver requests, 51common accountability system changes under waivers included:

The PSP serves as a member of the campus intervention team (CIT) that is assigned to campuses with low performance in the state accountability system as stipulated in Texas Education Code (TEC) § 39.106 (a) and / or supports priority schools identified under the USDE flexibility waiver.

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.

A second letter — signed by more than a dozen civil rights organizations — looks more specifically at equity in the accountability systems required under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers.