Sentences with phrase «test whether district»

But the lawyer representing one of the defendants said he would file suit within the next few months to test whether district boundaries can be used to deny parents from the inner city the opportunity to provide a high - quality education for their children.

This six - year effort is testing whether the districts» efforts to set standards for principals and then improve how they are trained, hired, evaluated and supported on the job can lead to more effective principals and improved student achievement.

Not exact matches

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS — The Arlington Heights Park District is testing the water to see whether the community will back a tax - referendum measure next spring to repair aging swimming pools and other outdated facilities.

Whether or not speech testing identifies a delay, trust your instincts and know that you can provide your child with support even if you don't qualify for services through your school district.

The project manager is expected to visit the range in the next week or so and eventually make a decision on whether more testing is warranted and what action the district should take, Ekey said.

Stakeholder groups questioned whether there would be any demand from districts for an additional test, given the heated opposition to standardized testing, especially in some areas.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

Klein goes through a few of these testing issues — whether parents can opt their kids out of tests, whether school districts can choose their own tests, and how big a role tests should play in accountability — and explains where the House stands, where the Senate stands, and the pros and cons of both sides.

When we look to test - based evidence — and look no further — to decide whether choice «works,» we are making two rather extraordinary, unquestioned assumptions: that the sole purpose of schooling is to raise test scores, and that district schools have a place of privilege against which all other models must justify themselves.

Like other schools in Aldine, Thompson Elementary also regularly administers its own tests to measure whether students are mastering the district's standards as well as the school's benchmarks.

Schools, districts, and other organizations can now administer the survey tools in both English and Spanish to easily assess the current state of their parent — school relationships or test whether their efforts to improve these relationships are working.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

So to the Regents and the NY state department of ed I say this: Your newfangled evaluation system is going to be miles more rigorous than what virtually all your districts have today, regardless of whether one - fifth or two - fifths of the ratings comes down to test scores.

In January 1995 Houston launched an audit to determine whether the district's written curriculum was aligned with the state's guidelines and with what was tested by the state.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

As for the legal question, as this brief from Dennis Cariello makes clear, Congress debated whether to allow states to let districts choose among a menu of tests, and decided against it — at least for grades 3 — 8.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

You were absolutely wrong to report that U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham «never reached a conclusion about whether [I.Q.] tests are racially biased» and that the appeals - court ruling now reinstitutes I.Q. testing for African - American students.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

Whoever wins the 2012 presidential election will set the federal education mandate for states, districts and schools, but the true test will be whether America can successfully close the domestic and international achievement gaps facing U.S. students.

A family weighing which school district to move into considers whether to delay its decision until after scores from the annual state assessment tests are released.

The state's plan had long been for a slow transition to the PARCC, and in 2015, each district was able to choose whether to give the new test or stick to MCAS.

All three studies achieved very high response rates on all data collections, whether teacher surveys, classroom observations, collection of teachers» scores on college entrance exams or precertification exams, student achievement tests, collection of student data from district administrative records, principal surveys, or interviews with program officials.

For each accountability performance criterion specified in paragraph (14) and each performance indicator specified in paragraph (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner, commencing with 2002 - 2003 school year test administration results, shall determine whether each public school, charter school and school district has achieved adequate yearly progress as set forth in paragraph (5) of this subdivision.

One of the most significant ambiguities is whether states can develop an annual testing system by piecing together state and district tests given in different grade levels.

California test scores: State to release results at 10 a.m. KPCC: The tests in English and math measure whether school districts meet state education standards.

Efforts to disentangle success from economics are made somewhat harder by New York's decision not to adopt one of the national Common Core tests, which promised to allow more apples - to - apples comparisons among school districts across the country (though New York has a modified version of the Common Core standards in place, the state makes its own exams to test whether kids are meeting those expectations).

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

Districts can differ in the way they test and grade, so parents may wonder whether the A their child is receiving really indicates that have mastered a subject.

Whether the test count as 20 % or 50 % (probably somewhere in between) of a teacher's evaluation will be a collective bargaining decision in each separate school district.

Federal funding is at risk when more than five percent of students don't take mandated annual tests, though it is unclear whether or how states or districts will be punished.

To decide whether or not to provide a student with additional supports, school and district leaders rely mainly on test scores and other academic achievement data.

One of the questions posed to the panelists was whether Los Angeles Unified School District's Superintendent John Deasy's statement that «The graduation rate must rise from 55 % to 70 % in four years; the percentage of middle and high school students who test as «Proficient» in math must nearly double; and the percentage of students who pass courses required to attend state four - year universities must nearly triple...» was realistic.

... Standardized tests shine a spotlight on disparities in achievement — whether for students of color or those with special needs — so districts can steer teacher support and dollars wisely, said Taylor Rub, a special education teacher at the Minneapolis charter Bright Water Elementary.

Massachusetts will not formally decide whether to adopt PARCC until the end of the 2014 - 15 school year and, next spring, school districts will be able to choose between it and a state - developed test.

APEX provides the written tests in addition to the standard computer - based multiple - choice assessments, but school districts can decide whether to use them.

The district regularly revamps the curriculum and uses quick online tests to gauge where students need more help or whether teachers need to modify their approaches.

Leading up to the tests, some districts sent letters to parents asking whether their children would be participating in the assessments.

Though Brizard touts improvements in graduation rates and test scores among his accomplishments in his 3 1/2 years, opinion is sharply divided on whether he has made a significant difference in the performance of the district's largely low - income black and Latino students....

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

It's unclear whether the Houston school district will now negotiate a settlement with the teachers union or end up back in court, but either way, the decision comes at a significant time for the test - based accountability movement, which has faced a number of legal and political challenges over the past several years.

Huberty urged Morath to reach out the U.S. Department of Education to find out whether a waiver from testing could be granted and to report back on the financial ramifications of failing to meet federal requirements in affected districts.

The tests in English and math measure whether school districts meet state education standards.

Simultaneously, TCTA contacted Sen. John Cornyn's office to let them know of the precedent for Texas receiving federal accountability waivers and the urgency of seeking one given real concerns about whether student test results from hurricane - impacted districts / schools would be accurate.

There are many reasons for the lower scores: the new standards being taught changed and are being implemented unevenly across school districts (Warren and Murphy 2014; McLaughlin, Glaab and Carrasco 2014, Harrington 2016); the definition of having met the standards changed; and the testing method changed (London and Warren 2015).1 While it is true that these assessments are in many ways not comparable (indeed, legislation passed in 2013 prohibits the CDE and local education agencies from doing so), 2 it is useful to understand which districts and schools are doing consistently well on both tests, and whether districts doing well on the SBAC English language arts (ELA) also do well on the SBAC math.

Whether it was revamping the courses high schools offered, allowing certain students to test out of requirements or losing low - performing students to charter schools, the district moved students toward its graduation rate in a variety of ways.

So far, there are no concrete district data to show whether the more play - based kindergarten program is improving academic achievement as measured by standardized state tests.

Not to be outdone, Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor told the superintendents that despite what he and Malloy had said in the past and despite federal and state laws to the contrary, he was authorizing greater flexibility when it came to the amount of testing during the coming school year and whether school districts had to include test results in their teacher evaluation program.

Standardized test results form the backbone of the school performance scores that determine whether a school can be taken over by the state Recovery School District, whether a school has improved enough to return to local control and whether charters can stay open.

«But,» says Miron, «on criterion - referenced tests — those that measure whether or not students meet prescribed state standards — Edison students» gains or losses mirror those of students in the comparison groups examined, which included students from surrounding public school districts.»