Sentences with phrase «yearly progress if»

Atlanta Journal: So, might a school that is not making adequately yearly progress in Georgia, be making adequately yearly progress if you transplanted it, say, to Mississippi?

While it's true that some schools now classified as failing would be classified as making «adequate yearly progress,» I would argue that they are making adequate yearly progress if their students are well on track to proficiency.

Not exact matches

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.

In interest of brevity I will stop here but obviously there are lots of ideas applicable here: if you don't like how your representative voted on some issue you can change your vote manually if voting is still in progress... people should be allowed to easily switch their representative on a monthly / yearly level... etc

Also, if students with disabilities are to meet the adequate yearly progress goals set forth in the No Child Left Behind Act, they must have access to the general education curriculum.

But if it's going to allow states to opt - out of the law's Adequate Yearly Progress system, it certainly has the right to set boundaries around the alternatives.

Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (meet achievement targets) for three consecutive years, even if it's just for a particular subgroup of students, must offer free tutoring to all students.

Any well - designed measuring stick should provide that kind of basic information, especially if it purports to identify schools that are or are not making Adequate Yearly Progress.

If the school adopted that dubious approach under a results - based accountability regime, the student's current ability level would need to be assessed and the school would be required to demonstrate that the child was making adequate yearly progress as determined by an annual assessment using the same testing accommodations.

Education World: Who is going to determine if a state is properly integrating adequate yearly progress into its accountability systems?

A public school, charter school or school district shall be deemed to have made adequate yearly progress on an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraph (14) of this subdivision if each accountability group within such school or district achieved adequate yearly progress on that criterion.

The legislation allows for the removal of principals if their schools and students fail to meet new standards for adequate yearly progress.

Examining the days forfeited to snow and other «unscheduled closings» in Maryland in 2002 - 2003, he concluded that two - thirds of the elementary schools that failed to make «adequate yearly progress» (the federal benchmark under «No Child Left Behind») in math that year would have done so «if they had been open during all scheduled school days.»

If their request is granted, student scores on Smarter Balanced assessments this year would be reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as they will be to parents and schools in California, but would not be used to measure whether a school or district has made Adequate Yearly Progress.

Schools couldn't score higher than a C if any one subgroup of students failed to make adequate yearly progress, or AYP.

If any one subgroup was underperforming, the feds wouldn't consider the school to have made «Adequate Yearly Progress.»

Here's the critical point: Even if your school has been an A + school for years — if any of the 39 subgroups of students (learning disabilities, low readers, etc) fail to make adequate yearly progress, the entire school fails.

If 100 percent proficiency is the carrot, adequate yearly progress is the stick.

If a group of parents goes to the principal and says they want to focus on student achievement so the school can make adequate yearly progress, she says, their offer of help is likely to be accepted.

I explained that our adequate yearly progress (AYP) targets would be tied to the state's new high school proficiency assessment and that if we missed those targets for several years in a row we could face sanctions, including the implementation of student transfers and supplemental tutorial plans.

Here is an excerpt: «'' The amendment for consolidated schools includes a petition option: «If a consolidation results in a change of forty (40) percent of the receiving school's population, an LEA may petition to have the school's safe harbor targets that will be used in determining adequate yearly progress (AYP) for the next school year recalculated based on the school's new population.

If approved it would also recast the nation's primary education law as the «Every Student Succeeds Act,» while doing away with adequately yearly progress and its sanctions — the centerpiece of the No Child Left Behind act.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

Officials at the Indiana Department of Education also want to remove a limit that caps a school's grade at a C if it fails to make yearly progress required by federal law.

And schools would no longer face federal sanctions if they fail to make what was called «adequate yearly progress» — a benchmark that critics have long called unrealistic and onerous.

It also sanctioned schools if they did not meet performance benchmarks known as «Adequate Yearly Progress.»

Schools were deemed to have not made «Adequate Yearly Progress» if too many students in any sub-group — a minority group of sufficient size, students with disabilities, English language learners, the poor — failed either of the state tests in reading or math, in any grade.

In another article, you wrote that if Title 1 schools are not meeting Average Yearly Progress goals, parents have a right to transfer their child, correct?

Offered states waivers from NCLB's adequate yearly progress requirements if they promise to implement their own systems of differentiated accountability.

If an SEA needs additional time to plan for implementation of the flexibility, it may request approval to use as its annual measurable objectives (AMOs) for adequate yearly progress (AYP) determinations based on assessments administered in the 2011 - 2012 school year the same AMOs that it used the previous year.

That announcement comes too late for 319 Indiana schools that could have earned A's or B's from the state this year if they hadn't failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress under NCLB.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

The test fulfills the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act, used to determine if students of all sub-groups are making adequate yearly progress.

For example, if you want to see how you've progressed in upping your daily step count, the Garmin Connect app presents your weekly, monthly, and yearly stats in an easily digestible screen.