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Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. test-based accountability model holds schools and teachers accountable for student outcomes with little attention to school improvement processes. Many other countries enact more school-centered accountability efforts, such as school self-evaluation followed by inspection (SSE/I) to examine school quality, as in similar systems in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. Accountability models from other countries cannot be naively...
2) State accountability rating systems: a review of school report cards as indicators of school quality
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A core premise of state school report cards is that publicizing information about how well schools and districts meet specified goals will incentivize school improvement. However, for report card rating systems to be potentially beneficial as a school improvement policy instrument, they must provide fair and valid indicators of school performance.
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This brief investigates whether closing schools and transferring students for the purpose of remedying low performance is an option educational decision makers should pursue. The logic of closing schools in response to low student performance goes like this: By closing low-performing schools and sending students to better-performing ones, student achievement will improve. The threat of closure may motivate low-performing schools (and their districts)...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Consolidated Federal Programs
Pub. Date
2006..
Language
English
Description
The Consolidated Federal Programs Unit has established a system of support for schools and districts that are in need of Improvement under No Child Left Behind, called the Colorado System of School Support (CS³)
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, District and School Support [sic]
Pub. Date
2015-2018.
Language
English
Description
The School Turnaround Leadership Development grant program (STLD) was enacted by the Colorado State Legislature in 2014 to nurture and support leaders in turning around academic performance in the state's low-performing schools. The purpose of the STLD program is to serve school leaders who will demonstrate dramatic and lasting improvements of student achievement and growth in Priority Improvement or Turnaround schools.
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Office of Federal Programs [sic] Administration
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Section I provides NCLB-mandated requirements for Title I Targeted Assistance Plans. These requirements are laid out in an easy-to-use format. Also included are guidance and suggestions for writing your Title I Program Plan. Section II contains templates to facilitate the writing of your Targeted Assistance plan. Section III provides a checklist to assist you in reviewing your plan and assuring that all components have been addressed. Section IV provides...
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Federal Program Administration Unit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Supplemental Educational Services (SES) are additional academic instruction designed to increase the academic achievement of students in Title I schools with a status of Priority Improvement or Turnaround outside the regular school day.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Teaching and Learning Unit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, the Colorado General Assembly passed House Bill 11-1027 (sections 26-6-601-605, C.R.S.) which required the CDHS to develop a quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for school district and charter school early childhood education programs are embedded in licensing for all early education and care programs, including programs based in public school districts and charter schools.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, Health and Wellness Unit
Pub. Date
2016-
Language
English
Description
The School Health Professional Grant (SHPG) Program was created to increase the presence of school-based health professionals (school nurses, school counselors, school social workers and school psychologists) within secondary schools. The purpose of the SHPG is to improve prevention, early intervention, and health care services and programs, in an effort to reduce the risks of marijuana and other substance use by secondary school students.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Education, [Unit of Federal Program Administration]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Each state in the nation is charged with creating their own plan for meeting the goals of ESSA. The purpose of the ESSA Hub Committee was to provide oversight of the ESSA state plan development by individuals who represent a diverse set of key education stakeholders and make recommendations to the State Board of Education for decisions to be included in Colorado's ESSA state plan.
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