Sentences with phrase «yearly testing of»

Responsible for executing and documenting yearly testing of all fire alarm systems on BJU campus

However, charters must comply with all state regulations, offering at least 180 days of instruction and yearly testing of students in grades 3 - 8 and grade 11.

To ensure that the risk of accidental fire is reduced, it is vital that schools have in place a five yearly test of electrical installations in order to identify possible electrical problems.

Not exact matches

The bill raises the asset threshold at which banks must comply with stricter capital and planning requirements, including yearly stress tests and developing «living wills» for an orderly liquidation in times of crisis.

The list is published yearly and contains viable information on the varieties of industrial hemp that can be used for commercial cultivation and its testing requirements.

The media - savvy pair — Hirsheimer was a founder of Saveur magazine and Hamilton worked for Cook's Illustrated — create and publish Canal House Cooking, a thrice - yearly magazine - book hybrid replete with lush food photos and home - tested recipes.

As surely as winter melts into spring and Uncle Sam demands his yearly tribute, we start worrying about end of semester tests,...

As surely as winter melts into spring and Uncle Sam demands his yearly tribute, we start worrying about end of semester tests, registration deadlines for the «right» summer camps and the arrival of college acceptance (or, heaven forbid, rejection) letters.

Due to the quick pace of coaches aging through youth sports teams, SPORTSCAPP.com recommends this test be taken on a yearly basis.

So now we must rely on Covanta's yearly air purity test, to insure the purity of the emissions from the incinerator,» he said.

«Also, performing a yearly fecal immunochemical test («FIT») is an effective screening method to identify those who need further evaluation and possible treatment to prevent the progression of colorectal cancer.»

The yearly releasing and parsing of students test scores took place Monday with Mayor Michael Bloomberg finding lots of good news among the reams of data.

Senior author and U-M professor of family medicine Mack Ruffin, M.D., MPH, says, «Patients are very aware of Pap tests and many still think they need one yearly.

This is why early diagnosis is important, so if you have been identified as at high risk of developing the disease you should be tested yearly.

I did come out positive in test when i was little but my family did not know how to deal with my allergy and kept giving me those foods.Resulted in now having low stomach acid and having to supplement with b 12 for the rest of my life and yearly upper endoscopy.

According to research, the grand total of arthritis mistreatment by physicians is 30,000 yearly deaths and 10 billion dollars in wasted money — all because of unnecessary tests and surgery.

So while I have health insurance, I generally avoid my doctor outside the yearly testing window, and each time I go, I feel like she's trying to get me on drugs, so unless I know exactly what to ask for or have some kind of serious problem, I stick to the basics of the blood tests and try to do everything I can to stay healthy.

We have extensively tested out and reviewed over 100 different cougar dating websites and apps over the past three years with yearly follow - up reviews of the best.

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Data - driven instruction began its spread across the country about a decade ago, in the footsteps of the No Child Left Behind requirement that schools administer yearly achievement tests.

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.

Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

I am sure that schools feel pressure to reach their adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals and administering constant practice tests may seem like the most assured way of raising scores, but so many of the most important needs of students are compromised as a result.

This includes state - level teacher evaluation, report card, or school ranking policies that rely heavily on summative assessments; but also the federal ESEA's emphasis on once - yearly tests that shaped state policy with the induction of No Child Left Behind.

State efforts at carrying out requirements to test English - language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act are receiving increased scrutiny, as hundreds of schools across the country fail to meet goals for adequate yearly progress at least in part because of such students» scores.

He reasonably dings NCLB for the tests the states use, for the crudeness of the adequate yearly progress (AYP) determination, and for the gamesmanship allowed in state AYP timelines.

Even with seat - time waivers available to schools, then, requiring once - yearly summative assessments frustrate the possibility of a fully flexible progression, as students will be forced to take tests on subjects that they have already moved beyond or have not yet mastered.

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.

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) marked a new level of federal oversight by requiring states to set more rigorous student evaluation standards and, through testing, demonstrate «adequate yearly progress» in how those standards were met.

As the «adequate yearly progress» aspect of the law results in increasingly heightened performance expectations, this number will probably rise, too, even though many schools will «graduate» off the list due to improving (or at least fluctuating) test scores.

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.

Scores generally improve in subsequent testing years because students practice how to answer the specific types of questions that appear on the yearly TAAS.

Educators considered many of the NCLB provisions arbitrary and unfair, particularly the adequate yearly progress designations and testing requirements for special education students and English language learners.

In 2007, Hidalgo Early College High School created the Success Initiative Academy for students who continually scored low on the yearly Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, providing separate teachers and very small classes for these students most at risk for dropping out.

If we narrow education to the mechanics of math and reading as captured by yearly testing, we short - change the broader knowledge that is the key to academic success later.

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools program.

In 2011, the five yearly testing cycle for PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) came in to alignment with the four - year cycle for TIMSS, allowing countries who were participating in both of these international studies to gain comprehensive information about the achievement of their fourth grade students in three core curriculum areas - reading, mathematics and science.

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.

They know the heartbreak of working their tails off all year, trying everything and anything they can think of to raise test scores, and finally succeeding in raising test scores, only to learn that they have failed; their Yearly Progress was real but not Adequate.

The passage of the NCLB is a landmark moment for federal control in education, as, for the first time, Washington was to dictate state standards, while mandating state testing and yearly progress goals — even the breaking down of scores by sub-groups of students.

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.

But when it comes down to it, test scores and Adequate Yearly Progress stand in the paths of schools and students.

For each accountability performance criterion specified in paragraph (14) and each performance indicator specified in paragraph (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner, commencing with 2002 - 2003 school year test administration results, shall determine whether each public school, charter school and school district has achieved adequate yearly progress as set forth in paragraph (5) of this subdivision.

After the states have set their yearly performance goals, the Department of Education will have to monitor the performance of the nation's 92,000 public schools to see whether each demographic group in each grade being tested is meeting the state performance goals.

«If we narrow education to the mechanics of math and reading as captured by yearly testing,» Greene concludes, «we short - change the broader knowledge that is the key to academic success later.»

More than 90 percent of African Americans think public school students should be tested yearly to see if their schools are adequately serving students, compared to 78 percent of voters.

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.

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).