Sentences with phrase «yearly progress on»

NLCB required all students to make adequate yearly progress on standardized tests.

With the implementation of No Child Left Behind, schools must make adequate yearly progress on state testing and focus on best teaching practices in order to continue receiving funds.

Eight years after they found themselves lumped in with some of the lowest - performing schools in the state, Mobile County schools such as Mae Eanes Middle School and Grant Elementary are now regularly making Adequate Yearly Progress on state exams and have become turnaround models for educators around the country.

Except as provided in subparagraph (vi) of this paragraph, a local educational agency (LEA) that received funds under title I for two consecutive years during which the LEA did not make adequate yearly progress on all applicable criteria in paragraph (14) of this subdivision in a subject area, or all applicable indicators in subparagraphs (15)(i) through (iii) of this subdivision, or the indicator in subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, shall be identified for improvement under section 1116 (c) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (c) and shall be subject to the requirements therein (Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1116 [c], 115 STAT.

the school or district has made adequate yearly progress on all applicable criteria and indicators in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision for two consecutive years.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

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.

Not exact matches

Mr Xi is keen to show progress on high - profile initiatives such as the C919 ahead of the next five - yearly congress of the Communist party in the autumn, where he will be trying to strengthen his grip on power.

Hershey's senior director of sustainability, corporate social responsibility and social innovation Jeff King told ConfectioneryNews: «We will provide progress against these KPIs yearly on our Cocoa For Good website, along with stories and updates about what we have learned as we execute our Cocoa For Good projects.

And his long term education and future life prospects depend on yearly progress, onwards and upwards.

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

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

It's also entirely possible that the annual yearly progress provisions will cause trouble, as more and more schools wind up on lists of the low performing and politicians take the heat.

Under the law, schools must show not only that their overall student body is making «adequate yearly progress» on state tests, but also that a sufficient percentage of certain subgroups of students are likewise proficient.

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.

Under the law, schools are kept on track toward their goals through a mechanism known as «adequate yearly progress» or AYP.

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced on Aug. 4 that Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Utah will be allowed to let districts provide supplemental educational services, or SES, to eligible students whose Title I schools fail to make adequate yearly progress for two years.

* 15 — Accountability: National Conference on Adequate Yearly Progress: Progress and Challenges, sponsored by the Academy for Educational Development, for K - 12 administrators, teachers, and education policy makers, at the AED Conference Center in Washington.Contact: Ashley Carlton or Mairin Brady, Washington Partners, 1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20005; [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: www.WPLLC.net.

Central High did not make the Adequate Yearly Progress standard under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and less than 20 percent of its students score «proficient» on state standardized math tests.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

By the 2006 - 2007 school year, Csar Chvez had made annual yearly progress (AYP) two years in a row, and started the year in Phase Zero — meaning the school did not meet AYP for a year, and then made it back to AYP, so the school had been headed back to «in need of improvement» under NCLB, but now is back on track to meeting AYP goals.

The standards for an adequate education in this study were that all students must achieve proficiency on the state assessment by 2014, and that all schools must meet «adequate yearly progress» targets.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

Here's how Kristin Blagg of the Urban Institute puts it: «There is evidence that accountability pressure, particularly when schools or districts are on the margin of adequate yearly progress (AYP), is associated with neutral - to - positive achievement gains....

In the first five years of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, much attention has been focused on implementation issues — from how to manage the increasing number of schools and districts «in need of improvement» or in «corrective action,» to problems with testing programs, adequate - yearly - progress reporting, and the law's highly - qualified - teacher requirements.

The law applies a series of sanctions, possibly culminating in closure, to schools where students don't show enough «Adequate Yearly Progress» on statewide, standardized tests.

Under that system, whether a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress is determined primarily based on the share of students scoring at proficient levels in math and reading in a given year.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

Adequate yearly progress is an Enron - like mess based on different students in different years and different state cut - offs regarding when students are deemed «proficient.»

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Andy also takes issue with our statement, «Instead of the vague mandate of «adequate yearly progress,» federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertising...» Andy seems unable to reconcile this with the fact that Linda and I have previously noted that NCLB is too prescriptive.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

• The structure of «Adequate Yearly Progress» encouraged schools to focus on students just below the proficiency bar, rather than students at the middle or top of the achievement spectrum, too.

In her Nov. 22 letter (starts on page 6), Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote, «The requirements to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to identify schools for improvement, corrective action and restructuring have not been waived, and any State laws or regulations, including those related to AYP or school improvement status, are not affected by the waivers granted to your district.»

The original text of NCLB, under its section on state plans, says that to make «adequate yearly progress» (AYP) a school must test 95 percent of its students.

AXL operates on a year - round calendar to ensure that all students achieve and maintain adequate yearly progress.

On the one hand, districts may simply be complying with specified interventions to schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress targets.

We obtained student achievement data for literacy (reading or language arts) and mathematics from scores on the states «tests for measuring Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

When schools have failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, it has mostly been teachers and principals who've been slapped on the wrist or let go from their jobs.

Critics say the emphasis on test scores and the adequate yearly progress formula used during evaluations aren't flexible enough to diagnose individual schools» strengths and weaknesses.

But it is a tad difficult to take the president seriously on his commitment to systemic reform in light of his effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its Adequate Yearly Progress provisions that have helped spur a decade of systemic reforms.

«We have not focused on AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) as a crucial level of accountability.

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.

MAP is a well - regarded online national exam that sets an automated goal for yearly progress for each child based on where she began in September.

In this interactive map, the district's 189 public, charter, magnet and pilot high schools are color - coded by their Academic Performance Index score and sorted based on Adequate Yearly Progress proficiencies.

CLI, which was developed by Canadian Council on Learning, aims to measure the yearly progress of the sate of lifelong learning.

From where Washington State politicians and Petrilli sit, the Obama Administration's decision is «punishing schools and educators» because the state will now have to fall back on No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provision, as well as the aspirational provision that states must ensure that all kids are proficient in reading, math, and science.

End arbitrary and unrealistic «Adequate Yearly Progress» (AYP) requirements used to punish schools not on track to having all students score «proficient» by 2014.

Many of these students are scoring below required levels on standardized assessments in mathematics (National Center for Education Statistics, 2004; Thurlow, Moen, & Altman, 2006), putting their schools in jeopardy of not meeting NCLB's Adequate Yearly Progress requirements.

After the No Child Left Behind Act took effect, for example, the new federal requirements on adequate yearly progress incentivized poor practices in the classroom, such as drill - and - kill teaching to the test.