Sentences with phrase «under state accountability»

Under the NCLB Act (also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act - ESEA), states were required to set continually rising AYP standards each year, so in 2012, Texas campuses had to meet a standard that was roughly equivalent to «Recognized» under the state accountability system.

To add additional grade levels, the number and percentage of students to be evaluated under the state accountability system must be included in the application.

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But it will likely affect the grades schools get under state accountability systems.

In a written statement, district officials disputed that the transfers helped elevate the school system's standing under state accountability rules.

It is already clear that many charter schools will be labeled «in need of improvement» under state accountability systems and NCLB.

Hickok: The answer to your question is in a sense, yes — in that AYP is a state definition, and under state accountability systems, it is implemented through local schools.

Colorado passed much - noted legislation requiring any school that receives three consecutive «unsatisfactory» ratings under the state accountability system to convert to a charter.

Not exact matches

«Simply put,» Schneiderman wrote, under the current law «a defendant pardoned by the President for a serious Federal Crime could be freed from all accountability under federal and state criminal law.»

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

Under these New York State laws, candidates are required to file periodic financial disclosure reports in order to provide accountability by candidates seeking public office and to provide transparency in the election process.

However, it added «the Center continues to note with dismay, however, that governmental accountability and responsiveness have remained highly insufficient (despite delivery of considerable voice to citizenry under the 4th Republic); public corruption remains pervasive; progress of the constitutionally - mandated political, administrative and fiscal decentralization has stalled; the economy remains characterized by jobless growth; income and spatial inequality are on the rise in spite of poverty reduction; and the nation's two main political parties which have alternated in power in the 4th Republic have increasingly taken on the features of rival cults (whose primary purpose seemingly is to win elections, achieve «state capture» and practice «winner - takes - all» politics).

The state is still required to use state test scores in school accountability — a requirement that will be carried over under the new law, the official said.

The Comptroller was equally pointed on the state's procurement practices, which have come under fire due to rampant corruption in the state's contracting process, stating that the changes were needed to «ensure spending accountability and transparency» in a statement.

He added that getting officials to pay for public assets lost under their watch would help to strengthen accountability in state institutions.

That is especially true, she notes, when rewards and punishments are attached to the outcomes of the tests, as is the case under the No Child Left Behind law and states» own «accountability» measures.

In particular, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores of Texas and North Carolina advanced more than in any other state under accountability systems that included:

Likewise, in a September 3, 2003, column examining the differences between state and federal accountability systems, Winerip looked at North Carolina, where, he said, some schools that were doing just fine under the state's previous accountability system were now being flagged as needing improvement under NCLB.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

With the increased authority provided to states under ESSA, states can now take advantage of this flexibility to build even better systems and not as a means to hide from accountability.

State policymakers who wish to switch over to portability should think carefully not only about reporting requirements and accountability for private schools under portability, but also about the details of the fiscal transition, such as hold harmless rates, that could allow high poverty public schools now served with Title I time to adjust.

Supersubgroups: Under the Obama administration's NCLB waivers, some states choose to combine several «subgroups» for accountability purposes, resulting in what's known as «supersubgroups.»

Participation in the bonus program did not, for example, boost the percentage of students who scored at or above the level designated as «proficient» under New York state accountability standards.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

«Key Takeaways: State Accountability Plans Under ESSA.»

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States use subgroups for two purposes, with potentially two different minimum subgroup sizes, or n - sizes: reporting (school report cards available to the public online) and federal accountability (used in state calculations to determine which schools fall into particular categories under ESSA).

«This accountability system works,» the Republican said during his Jan. 13 State of the State Address, arguing that Colorado has the best learning environment in the nation, with 114 schools rated «excellent» or «high» under its own accountability system since the 2001 - 02 school year.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

And under ESSA, states appear to be making their accountability systems both clearer and fairer: clearer by using A — F grades, five - star ratings, and the like; and fairer by focusing much more heavily on student - level growth, which credits schools for the progress that all kids make while under their tutelage.

Plans by the Bush administration to set a uniform way for states to calculate and report their graduation rates could make it harder for high schools to avoid accountability measures under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Under the changes being proposed to the state's A + school accountability program, Florida's annual school - by - school letter grades would be based on longitudinal data — that is, looking at how students» test scores increase or decline as they proceed through school over several years.

We all know that the Every Student Succeeds Act gives states much wider leeway than they had under NCLB to craft school accountability arrangements that suit them.

Many states that had established accountability systems under IASA already had schools in improvement or correction when NCLB passed.

A new report by the Government Accountability Office finds that many states are not complying with a requirement under the Higher Education Act that they evaluate teacher education programs and identify «at risk» and «low performing» programs.

The first teachers to be fired under North Carolina's 2 - year - old accountability program are fighting their dismissals and, in the process, providing an early illustration of the struggles that may lie ahead as states push administrators and teachers to take more responsibility for student achievement.

Under legislation signed May 12 by Gov. Haley Barbour, local superintendents would lose their jobs if their districts were labeled «underperforming» as measured by the state accountability system for two years in a row.

Under the newly enacted Every Student Succeeds Act, all states will be responsible for designing their own statewide accountability systems.

But follow - up letters lay out a host of conditions that states must meet before their accountability plans under the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 are deemed «fully approved.»

On Inauguration Day, the administration ordered a freeze on state evaluation and accountability plans for schools, which under essa must be federally approved.

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?

Citing a new report from the Government Accountability Office, Sens. Tom Harkin, D - Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R - Pa., say they will be watching closely to make sure the Department of Education is monitoring how states spend the school improvement dollars available under the No Child Left Behind Act.

This issue can also be addressed by broadening the set of indicators against which schools are evaluated, which many states are poised to do under the new federal accountability law.

Hickok: The whole purpose of the peer review process is to talk to, listen to, and work with states as they make whatever changes need to be made to align their accountability systems with AYP under the new law.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

Legislature approved school - accountability law under which the state will begin this summer training more than 10,000 educators to prepare school - improvement...

As American education reformers try again, under the Common Core State Standards, to create a sensible system of standards, assessments, and accountability, what can we learn from our earlier mistakes?

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Our state adopted a basic re-write of our accountability policies under HB 3 two years ago.