Sentences with phrase «tested voucher system»

The Government should introduce a means - tested voucher system, or encourage schools to do so, as part of the pupil premium.

The government should introduce a means tested voucher system, as part of the pupil premium, through which lower income families could purchase additional educational support for pupils, such as extra-curricular tuition.

Not exact matches

Maybe we need to rethink the voucher system so that we can send our tax dollars to schools whose administrators prove their worthiness through test results of the kids.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

With the advent of competitive reforms such as merit pay, test - based accountability, and market - based systems like vouchers and charters, we are already seeing unintended consequences in the forms of cheating, competition for scarce resources, and a system of winners and losers.

As a result, Mike, and Fordham, thinks that schools educating voucher students should take the same standardized tests as traditional public schools and participate in a modified version of the accountability systems we have in place for public schools.

Private schools should also be required to administer whatever tests are part of the state accountability system, if a majority of a school's students attend with the benefit of vouchers.

Meanwhile, some states have required private schools accepting voucher students to participate in state testing systems, blurring what had been a distinction between the two approaches.

If schools facing voucher competition were only appearing to improve by somehow manipulating Florida's high - stakes testing system, we would not have seen a corresponding improvement on another test that no one had incentives to manipulate.

But test scores, while important, do not necessarily provide an absolute appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of voucher programs in a large education system.

That program began by using test scores to evaluate students, schools and educators (and, for a time, custodians and every other adult in a school building), and included a groundbreaking performance pay system paid for by philanthropists, the spread of charter schools and vouchers, and a chronic churn in teachers and principals that Rhee saw as healthy (even though research shows children, especially from low - income families, need stability).

If test scores are meaningful measurements of performance (and they have to be if we have any hope of evaluating our education system), these scores show that vouchers are not providing kids with a better education.

Fordham even implicitly shows how its testing approach will eventually impact non-voucher private school students: «[i] f a private school's voucher students perform in the two lowest categories of a state's accountability system for two consecutive years, then that school should be declared ineligible to receive new voucher students until it moves to a higher tier of performance (emphasis added).»

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

If you decide to buy into a public school system, a charter school, or a private school voucher program where we have test requirements, you should take the tests.

Evers» letter calls proposed testing procedures for public and voucher schools and a proposed letter grade system «dubious» ideas.

Note the reference to funding portability, vouchers, charters, testing, and the lack of respect for preserving the system.

The demand for higher scores has pushed the perceived need for charters, vouchers, higher standards, better tests, and longitudinal data systems to track every student and teacher.

Private schools receiving school voucher funds will be subject to minimal criteria to comply with state laws and will administer assessment tests that will be incomparable with what the public school system uses to measure student learning gains.

In a surprise 2010 best seller, «The Death and Life of the Great American School System,» she openly declared that she had been wrong to champion standardized testing, charter schools and vouchers.

22 Importantly, these studies looked at individual student test scores, whereas two other studies that are often cited for their criticisms of the Chilean voucher system were based only on school - level or community - level averages.23