Sentences with phrase «with statewide tests»

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This statewide program guides California «s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested «best practices» in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.

The tests include open - ended questions to better assess students» content mastery; and, with some exceptions for special education students with specific testing accommodations, the tests will be administered entirely online to students statewide within five years.

The state's top education officials are calling a computer issue that interfered with statewide English language testing «inexcusable.»

The move clashes with Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's policy on the statewide test given to students in grades 3 through 8 on April 5 - 7 for the English standardized test and April 13 - 15 for the math exam.

But the push for having students opt out has been statewide, with the New York State United Teachers union and the other education groups allied with NYSUT robocalling parents urging them to not have their students take the tests.

Because the Libertarians and Greens do have candidates in some of the statewide offices with no Democrat running, it is quite likely that each of those parties will meet the vote test in 2012.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

A statewide count by boycott leaders, based largely on news accounts, indicated that more than 178,000 students sat out tests overall, with about half of all districts counted.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

The No Child Left Behind Act previously required all public schools receiving Title I funding to administer statewide standardized testing with the stipulation that students make «adequate yearly progress.»

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

As part of Governor Cuomo's Water Quality Rapid Response Task Force, DEC and DOH are working to evaluate potential threats to drinking water supplies statewide and assist communities with testing and technical assistance.

The regulations will include required time frames and steps for the maintenance and testing of cooling towers, fines for not cpmplying with the regulations and a statewide registry.

High Achievement New York, a statewide group supporting the Common Core standards and the tests, is increasing its campaign with robo calls and radio ads.

About 250 park officers statewide are trained to assist with search and rescues (including on ice), do field sobriety tests, respond to accidents and serve as liaisons with snowmobile clubs that help maintain the trails.

Long Island appeared on the threshold of cementing its place as the epicenter of the opt - out movement statewide, with tens of thousands of students refusing to take the state's English language arts exam on the first day of Common Core testing, a Newsday survey showed.

As parents and educators statewide continue to protest so - called high - stakes testing tied to Common Core, politicians this election season are tapping into voters» frustration with how the curriculum was rolled out.

The test refusals have continued despite the moratorium on evaluations: This marked the third year of massive statewide boycotts, with the Island at the epicenter.

On statewide tests for third through eighth graders this year, New York City's most troubled schools kept pace with the rest of city schools, showing similar gains in reading and math.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

Koch has raised his statewide profile this year with his NY Uprising PAC and its trio of reform pledges, which he used as a litmus test for dubbing candidates «heroes» or «enemies» of reform — a message he took on the road.

Some school districts are reporting that 60 to 70 percent of students boycotted statewide English tests, raising questions about whether the federal government could withhold funds from schools with high opt out rates.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

Moving forward, cooling towers statewide must be tested every 90 days, and building owners must develop a maintenance program, which also tracks with the City Council's legislation.

To test the idea of delaying resistance with sterile insect releases, the researchers conducted computer simulations and analyzed more than a decade of field data from before and after deployment of this strategy statewide in Arizona.

For all their flaws, they are far better for equity and quality than statewide skills - standards with high - stakes tests that encourage wasting huge amounts of school time in practicing narrow test - taking activities at the expense of education.

The reporters provide the reader with a host of mostly misleading state - provided test - score data, because the State of New York mis - constructed the proficiency scales on its statewide tests, thereby rendering interpretation of scores over time virtually impossible.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

Beginning with the 1990 - 91 school year, Texas began to administer a statewide achievement test, the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), to elementary - school students.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

* What happens in states (about half of them) that already have statewide graduation tests (e.g., Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and the Ohio Graduation Test) with minimum passing scores?

I'm convinced that much of the modest success we've enjoyed has been tied to the adoption of a statewide graduation requirement based on our 10th - grade MCAS test (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), beginning with the class of 2003, not the result of a national standard or ethic.

A 1992 to 1995 study of 371 schools in North Carolina found that students who attended schools with blocked schedules scored at least equal to and slightly higher in some subjects on end - of - course statewide tests than did students in non-blocked schools.

Both Illinois and Michigan are developing statewide reading tests that will bring their assessments up to date with advances in reading research.

These schools also have fewer black students than the statewide average, with 15.7 percent black students versus 24.9 percent statewide for students with third grade test scores.

Students in the schools in this sample are more likely to have married parents (70.7 percent versus 61.7 percent statewide with third grade test scores), less likely to have fathers absent at the time of birth (9.8 percent versus 15.2 percent statewide), less likely to have Medicaid - funded births (a proxy for poverty at the time of birth, 37.7 percent versus 48.8 percent statewide), and have relatively better educated mothers (13.1 years of maternal education at the time of the child's birth, versus 12.5 years on average statewide).

The San Jose Mercury News conducted a statewide analysis of the test scores of studefnts who stayed in schools that kept their bilingual programs and those that shifted to intensive English immersion with rapid mainstreaming.

Schools can build on statewide testing with their own «authentic» assessments of student learning, such as portfolios or demonstrations.

This will not sit well with some political allies, such as Howard Fuller, who argues that Milwaukee's voucher - financed alternative schools should not be forced to participate in the statewide testing program.

With improved educational materials readily available, home schoolers are winning spelling and geography bees, scoring off the charts on statewide tests, and gaining access to elite colleges.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Weeks earlier, data had been released showing that 42 percent of Agora students tested on grade level or better in math, compared with 75 percent of students statewide.

She does this with her colleagues by providing teacher professional development for K - 14 educators in science, mathematics, reading and writing, and modeling and testing new designs within college outreach programs — including statewide Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as Upward Bound.

Opt - out lobbying continues online and through social media, with statewide and local opt - out groups putting out the word that it's not too late to refuse the tests, and offering sample letters to districts.

«We cooperated with the state in actually giving the test, and I understand that they're calculating those results statewide,» he said.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Based on statewide data, researchers Laura Hill and Margaret Weston concluded that reclassified English learners «not only outperform English learner students, but often do better than English - only students» on state standardized tests, with students reclassified in elementary grades doing better than those reclassified in middle and high school.

Others worry that with 50 different statewide tests, the federal government will lack a meaningful tool with which to compare test scores across state lines.

And I hope they come to their senses and reveal a more centrist reauthorization proposal — with annual statewide testing, and data reporting, and school accountability requirements with teeth.