Sentences with phrase «whose state test results»

schools whose state test results show that the percentage of students who approach, meet, or exceed state standards is less than or equal to 60 %)

Not exact matches

The state Department of Health has sent out the first results to 370 residents whose blood was tested for a toxic chemical found in Newburgh's water supply.

Although the vast majority of programs are practically indistinguishable, there are exceptions — at most one or two per state, our results suggest — that really do produce teachers whose average impacts on test scores are significantly better than average.

Results from 8th grade reading and writing exams in New York state have been delayed because of a scoring problem by the same testing company whose errors in 1999 mistakenly sent thousands of New York City students to summer school.

You might say Folsom Cordova Unified School District (USD) is a «typical» medium - large district whose students have achieved «atypical» results: outperforming other California students in the state's Smarter Balanced tests, part of the new California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.

It is a test whose results can be compared across states, but is not a test that all Arkansas fourth - graders take, nor is it aligned with the Common Core.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

We argue that the results of any test whose results are disseminated throughout the state is, de facto, part of the assessment system.

Brown has also called for an overhaul of the state's standardized testing system, where the exam is reduced in scope and supplemented with assessments whose results would return much quicker throughout the year

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

To date, 47 states have adopted post-conviction DNA testing statutes; some have imposed additional limitations that hinder applicants from obtaining testing, such as prohibiting applications from those (1) that have plead guilty; (2) that have admitted to guilt in order to obtain parole; (3) whose attorneys did not request testing; (4) convicted of crimes for which relief could be sought; (5) who are sentenced to death; (6) who are able to establish a likelihood rather than a possibility the testing will be exculpatory; (7) where there are clear and convincing evidence that the new results would be significantly more discriminating than the results of previous testing; or (8) that fail to provide adequate safeguards to preserve biological evidence.