Sentences with phrase «testing policies requiring»

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

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But if the assumption is wrong, if tax exemption is not a subsidy or a form of federal financial assistance, then the tests applied to charitable trusts are not appropriate to tax exemption, and exempt entities need not be required to render what the legislature or IRS considers public benefit or to conform to what they construe to be public policy.

Meanwhile, Arab Christian leaders expressed concerns to CT about any policy that explicitly prioritized one faith over another or required a religious test.

Under the NJSIAA policy, students are required to consent in writing to random testing before participating in interscholastic sports.

Save Babies Through Screening Foundation educates parents, pediatric healthcare providers, and policy makers about available comprehensive newborn screening, the importance of obtaining positive or other test results requiring follow - up actions within 5 days of birth, and the importance of prompt confirmatory testing and treatment / management when needed.

The contract calls for drug testing for employees when deemed appropriate during work, a change from the previous policy, which required that only new employees be tested.

For example, a new policy was recently passed that requires an oxygen saturation test be performed at the time of the newborn screening to help prevent against congenital heart disease.

The Brookline policy goes further than the Commonwealth's concussion safety law by requiring baseline neurocognitive tests at least once a year, and by requiring that concussed athletes be advised to get rest while symptomatic.

Governor Cuomo initially supported a policy that would have required student test scores to count for 50 percent of a teacher's performance evaluation.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

Governor Cuomo initially supported a policy that would have required student test scores to count for 50 % of a teacher's performance evaluation.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was a supporter of the project — seeing it as a test case for his new mandatory inclusionary zoning policy, which requires developers to insert affordable units into new developments as a precondition for construction.

«Our study demonstrates that policy changes such as the one in Utah that required CMV testing after failed newborn hearing screening can improve the identification of infants with hearing loss, even those without congenital CMV,» said Marissa Diener, lead author and associate professor at the University of Utah's Department of Family and Consumer Studies.

In particular, realizing the full potential benefit of this technology requires attention to challenges in three critical policy domains: oversight of the quality of tests and related services; intellectual property; and coverage and reimbursement.

A Louisiana charter school's policy requiring female students to submit to pregnancy tests and expelling those found to be pregnant has come under...

Those rates could rise in the coming years, since 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted policies requiring that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency when they first take state tests in third grade be held back.

In the case of quizzes and tests, many schools» policies require re-teaching and re-testing until a student earns a passing grade.

While these laws require nondiscriminatory policies, including providing «reasonable accommodations» for students with disabilities to demonstrate their knowledge on tests, they do not require the use of accommodations that fundamentally alter what the test measures.

The new report did not capture a precise measure on what proportion of tests were required by teacher evaluation, but it does point out that many states have put in place new assessments «to satisfy state regulations and laws for teacher and principal evaluation driven by and approved by U.S. Department of Education policies.»

Policies requiring private schools to administer the official state tests, which are aligned with the public - school curriculum, appear to discourage distinctive private schools from participating.

Private schools must also develop test security measures approved by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and can be required to make revisions to test security policy by BESE.

State policy in Ohio requires school districts with a three - year average graduation rate of 75 % or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to 9th - grade students.

Performance - Based Tenure Policy: «A proposal has been made that would require teachers to demonstrate that their students are making adequate progress on state tests in order to receive tenure.

Amendments to the voucher bill - requiring that private schools have nondiscriminatory admissions and hiring policies; that voucher recipients take the Colorado Student Assessment Program test; and that some funding remain with school districts to cover fixed costs - also helped to earn the Children's Campaign's support.

A study by the Center on Education Policy found that the time district schools spent on subjects besides math and reading declined considerably after Congress enacted the No Child Left Behind Act (NLCB), which mandated that states require district schools to administer the state standardized math and reading tests in grades three through eight and report the results.

Under the new policy, students in the 3rd, 6th, and 8th grades were required to meet minimum standards in reading and mathematics on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in order to step up to the next grade.

Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop standards and tests in the first place, and No Child Left Behind, enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.

For the past four years, the Center on Education Policy has annually collected results from all 50 states on tests required for accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

The policy requires that at least 40 percent of teachers» evaluation be based on a value - added model (VAM)-- a model that comprises a bewildering formula that incorporates test data from students they do not teach or from subjects they do not teach.

Unfortunately, CPS still has a promotion policy that requires students to «pass» both the state reading and the state math test in order to graduate from eighth grade or be promoted from third of sixth grade without having to go to summer school.

His proposals are the clearest sign yet that Republicans have executed an about - face from the education policies of President George W. Bush, whose signature domestic initiative, the No Child Left Behind law of 2002, required uniform state testing and imposed penalties on schools that failed to progress.

... improving teaching and learning required coherence among the tests and several other policy instruments, including curricula and opportunities for high - quality professional development...

While ESSA was designed to reduce unnecessary standardized testing, the new educational policy requires that schools take an annual statewide assessment.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

Unlike multiple - choice tests, these assessments require students to construct answers, produce products, or perform activities; they allow educators to assess student performance meaningfully and foster deeper Read more about Performance Assessments: How State Policy Can Advance Assessments for 21st Century Learning -LSB-...]

In particular, he decried the federal policy of requiring all states to test all students in third grade through eighth grade this year.

That policy, the signature education reform of the Bush administration, required schools to meet annual federal testing standards, with minimum standards increasing incrementally until schools would ultimately be required (by 2014) to have every single student test as proficient in basic subjects.

«We want to see a reduction in the number of high stakes tests students are required to take,» NCAE's Ellis told N.C. Policy Watch, adding that reducing testing was another of the teachers» association's top priorities for this year's legislative session.

Conditional acceptance policies and programs, however, must include supports for remediation and receive approval from RIDE.104 Rhode Island takes these requirements further than most states, joining only Delaware in articulating clear state policy that requires higher GPA and standardized test scores outright.105

Full Disclosure of Negative Consequences Before imposing new required testing, policy makers should be aware of the likely unintended negative side effects of any given testing program.

The local school board shall develop policies governing this method of delivery of instruction that shall include the provisions of 8 VAC 20-131-110 and the administration of required SOL tests prescribed by 8 VAC 20-131-30.

Education officials in Massachusetts deny any plan to scrap the test, but this week the state senate approved an amendment affirming the current policy requiring students to pass the tenth - grade MCAS to graduate.

It also requires that CPS «develop policies to remedy academic deficiencies in schools where students are testing «at or below 75 %» standards on state assessments, and to include in those policies clear criteria for board actions relating to school facility interventions such as closures.»

Although Virginia requires that its secondary teacher candidates pass a Praxis II content test to teach any core secondary subjects, the state permits a significant loophole to this important policy by allowing general social studies licenses, without requiring subject - matter testing for each subject area within this discipline.

High - quality implementation of standards - based reform requires the following: specificity in stating the content goals of teaching and learning; consistency / alignment among the policies and practices put in place to pursue those goals (e.g. content standards, student achievement tests, performance standards, curriculum materials, professional development, accountability); authority / legitimacy to those charged with implementation; power through rewards and sanctions; and stability — when policies, practices, and leadership are in a state of flux, it is difficult to take each new thing that comes along seriously.

West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education require a common process for awarding college credit for Advanced Placement (AP) tests.

However, Kansas's current policy puts students at risk by allowing out of state teachers to teach on exchange certificates for up to two years without passing required subject - matter tests.

Because current state policy requires that refused tests be given the lowest possible score, the scores of 1 given to refused tests are calculated into the growth rates used to evaluate individual teachers.

Being a test coordinator requires you have an active understanding of our testing policies and procedures.

South Dakota wisely requires subject - matter tests for most secondary teachers but should address any loopholes that undermine this policy (see Goal 1 - G).