Sentences with phrase «tests mandated by»

In my home state of New York this past year, for example, approximately 20 percent of parents statewide opted to not have their children take the statewide math and English tests mandated by NCLB and Race to the Top.

These are tests mandated by law whose scores are used as the basis for distributing rewards and punish - ments to students, teachers, schools, and school administrators.

Likewise, school workers (custodians, teachers, counselors, and even principals) have learned to accept facilities, schedules, curricula, student activities, auxiliary services, disciplinary rules, and tests mandated by the central office or the state.

As a parent, it's critical that you know about alternative types of classroom - based assessments, in addition to traditional tests and the standardized tests mandated by your school district or state department of education.

What improbably worked for Vincent Chase in the last, terrible season of Entourage has also worked to beat tests mandated by sports» governing bodies.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

Remember: Safety - sensitive employees are obligated by law to submit to and cooperate in drug & alcohol testing mandated by DOT regulations.

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Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

These seeds are grown under conditions mandated by the National Standard for Organic Agriculture, including rigorous soil testing and use of approved fertilizers and pest controls.

Beginning with his 2010 fight against Shane Mosley, he has mandated that he and his opponent be subjected to what he calls «Olympic - style testing» by USADA.

Previously, pre-competition testing involved only the higher - level Pro Tour and Pro Continental teams, which are already subject to the biological passport program mandated by the UCI and thus have to submit riders» whereabouts for testing.

The «No Child Left Behind» act, signed by President Bush in January, greatly expands federal oversight of public education, mandating annual testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and one grade - level in high school, insisting every classroom teacher be fully certified and setting a 12 - year timetable for closing racial and economic achievement gaps in test scores.

As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.

This year, NASCAR has mandated baseline cognitive testing for its drivers — a move applauded by some (Dale Earnhardt Jr.) and questioned by others (Brad Keselowski).

Rosa is supportive of — and supported by — the opt - out movement, and said if she had a school - aged child right now, she would opt him or her out of state - mandated standardized testing.

He seemed to touch a nerve with the audience when he criticized the «pressure testing» mandated by the Common Core education standards, which he said that he would try to overturn.

Success also outlined its academic goals for all its students in its application, as mandated by SUNY application requirements: the network is aiming for 75 percent proficiency rates for second - year students in both math and English on state tests.

Flanagan said the bill sponsored by Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chairman Thomas O'Mara (R - Elmira) is the first in the nation to mandate lead testing of water in schools.

HR 2576 updates the 40 - year - old Toxic Substances Control Act by removing barriers to repeat chemical testing, mandating new safety reviews, and making information more available to the public.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

Since the late 1990s, Huntingdon Life Sciences — a company that conducts testing of substances on animals mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration — has become a proving ground for increasingly aggressive tactics by animal - rights militants.

And the film even has the perfect bittersweet conclusion, which it then, unfortunately, ignores in favor of a completely unbelievable and illogical happy ending that feels as it had been mandated by studio test - screenings where the audience was unhappy with the original outcome.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

Today, as Tennessee proceeds with Gateway testing, the majority of districts across the state have reduced class sizes to meet mandates established by the legislature.

We can therefore estimate the impact of NCLB's accountability mandates by comparing test - score changes in states that did not have NCLB - style accountability policies in place when the law was implemented to test - score changes in those that did.

The report, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is based on 4th grade scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a set of federally mandated tests given periodically to nationally representative samples of students.

The $ 34 per student spent by states on federally and state - mandated tests simply isn't very much in a system that spends about $ 10,000 per student.

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

Not satisfied with students» progress on district - and state - mandated tests — and after careful deliberation by administration and staff — the Edwards Middle School implemented the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative in the 2006/07 school year.

Today, it's more accurate to say that educators are fine with national but don't like testing when it's used for results - based accountability, and conservatives are all for accountability (and the test scores that make it possible) but don't want anything mandated by Washington.

Kentucky Gov. Paul E. Patton's call for mandated pay raises for teachers threatens to do what months of scheming by opponents of the Kentucky education - reform law has not managed — hobble the state's open - ended testing and performance bonus programs.

The libertarian Cato Institute is currently circulating a petition calling on reformers and policymakers to «dispense with rigid testing mandates» because «the compelled conformity fostered by centralized standards and tests stifles the very diversity that gives consumer choice its value.»

With the testing industry struggling to keep up with the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group says.

As I've argued before, the federal requirement that is driving the over-testing concern isn't the mandate that states test students annually in grades 3 — 8; it's the mandate (dreamed up by Arne Duncan as a condition of ESEA waivers) that states develop teacher - evaluation systems that include student achievement as a significant factor.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

If it were known that all of the states» mandated curricula are well tested by NAEP, it would save considerable money in test development and would quell some intense political debate.

Importantly, the new law also removes the federal mandate — pushed by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan — that states deploy test - based teacher evaluations.

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

They say the overreliance on data has harmed education by narrowing curricula and focusing on test preparation to ensure that students pass mandated tests in math and English language arts.

Statewide standardized tests, mandated by the federal government under No Child Left Behind, have provided mounds of data for educators to analyze.

Bell was so impressed by the way that Saturn Elementary implemented his program that he invited one of Saturn's teachers to present at his «100 % er National Conference» because 100 percent of her students passed the state - mandated tests for two years in a row.

We have not had the problem with it some other groups have had, in part because we tested a lot of those grades anyway, whether by state mandate, our own local choice, or some combination of the two.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school - choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

Fordham called for requiring all participating students to take state assessments; mandating public disclosure of those results, school by school, except for schools that enroll fewer than ten total students in tested grades; and requiring schools that enroll a substantial number of students to have their eligibility determined by how their students perform on state tests.

By contrast, more than two - thirds of private schools participate in Florida's tuition tax - credit scholarship program, which does not include a state testing mandate.

That's part of the reason No Child Left Behind mandated annual testing reported by subgroups such as race and socioeconomic status in the first place.

The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

[58] More conclusive evidence is needed for certainty, but the available evidence suggests that the regulations promulgated by the state, including the state testing mandate, discouraged higher - quality private schools from participating in the scholarship program.

When the law went into effect, it mandated that by 2014, every student would have to score «proficient» on those tests.

CAP's report sought to obtain a better understanding of how much time students spend time taking tests and to identify the degree to which the tests are mandated by districts or states.