Current Status, Proponents/Opponents and Budget/Fiscal Impact The current status of Senate Bill 177 is active and chaptered (S.B. 177, 2013). It is currently located in the Secretary of State’s office and was last amended on August 5, 2013 (S.B. 177, 2013). It is not time limited and does not seem to have a date for review (S.B. 177, 2013). According to the Senate Floor Analyses, or the Unfinished Business Report, from September 9, 2013, the proponents of Senate Bill 177, as verified on August 9, 2013, were a total of 15 (S.B. 177, 2013, p. 3). Some of the proponents, as listed in the Unfinished Business Report, were the California Youth Empowerment Network, Hillsides and the National Association of Social Workers (S.B. 177, 2013).
The dataset used in the analysis is the grades.dat; it was used to analyze the performance of the students in the GPA and the final. The dataset includes information collected from the survey of 105 students and includes variables such as performance and demographic variables. The variable GPA measures the performance
Thank you Mrs. Stephanie Smeltzer, for providing the team with the recent incident of Aki. To the school and treatment team, as Aki is receiving OPT/TSF services through New Behavioral Network in his school and family session (only provided by his Therapeutic Support for Families (TSF) worker) on Thursday due to his foster mother’s availability. It is noted, Aki has started to display more frequent aggressive behaviors in his classroom which has been observed by his TSF worker along with school officials, to which the Aki’s behaviors has become a concern as it is putting others at risk of his tantrums as his exhibiting behaviors of throwing objects which last for a period of 2 hours.
State assessments show 93 percent of pupils are proficient in English while 76 percent are proficient in Mathematics. The graduation rate is 85 percent and the College Readiness Index is 17.9. The curriculum at SHS is basic Common Core in compliance with Massachusetts Framework standards, Standard curriculum subjects are Social Studies, Science, English, Mathematics, Wellness, Physical Education, and World Languages. For those who qualify, Honors and Advanced Placement classes are also available.
By placing heavy weight instead on middle school grades, state assessment results, and attendance, Townsend Harris feels it ends up with students who have demonstrated the capacity to be serious and successful, not just good test takers. All students are required to be in the 90th percentile or above on math and reading standardized tests as well as have a minimum grade point average of 90 in June of 7th grade when being considered for a 9th grade seat. There is no entrance exam, written assessment or formal interview, and while nearly 5000 students apply to THHS each year, 250 seats are available. Students must place THHS as their first choice of high schools, showing ambition and dedication to becoming an “aggressive”
One example of information the authors recorded is the rate and variation of returning to education. The authors addressed the return rate of students back to education is 10%. The schools that are most affected by this low percent is public schools. While public schools have a harder time encouraging students to go to college private schools do not have this worry.
Approximately 85% of students are currently proficient in reading and math. If, after analyzing pertinent data, individual students were non-proficient or “on the bubble,” swift interventions were implemented, and the majority of these students have shown vast gains in those scores. We began specific interventions two years ago. In the elementary and middle school, non-proficient students receive the common curriculum in their homerooms, and then are redirected to different staff members for remedial aid. In the high school, specific classes were created for interventions in reading and math such as: Short Stories, Extended Learning, Algebra Concepts, and Geometry Concepts.
39% of students were low or low average and under the 40th percentile. 11% of
Recent legislation requires schools to implement a Response to Intervention (RTI) model that is based on multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). The goal of RTI is to identify students early who are struggling academically or behaviorally and provide appropriate interventions to prevent these challenges from becoming more serious and detrimental to their success. Under the traditional system, students may not receive extra services until a problem becomes severe, and they meet criteria for a special education qualification. RTI helps schools identify children earlier using systematic and scientific universal screeners of all children. Therefore, RTI gives students who are at-risk the opportunity to receive less intensive intervention services,
These days more in more people have come to the realization that becoming a high school teacher could perhaps have great benefits in its occupation. A high school teacher is a secondary teacher that instructs students from grades 9th through-out 12th. Therefore, when new teachers choose a school, they then research every website to learn more about the employer. Some newly teachers also compare city high school with county high schools. Statistics shows that city schools have consistently been the highest in student’s achievements throughout the years.
Planned Parenthood has remained a controversial topic in government and in households throughout America. There are split views on whether it should be funded by government or not, not to mention the underlying moral dilemma when it comes to abortions. In essence, Planned Parenthood was funded $500,000 in 2014. Though they are not prohibited to use federal funding on abortions, but Planned Parenthood conducts around 300,000 abortions a year using other funding. Recently, an anti-abortion group conducted an undercover interview and discovered that Planned Parenthood uses fetal tissue for scientific research, which is against the law.
Although the common belief is that certain aspects of school are important for an ideal education for all students, the main problems that need to be rectified as soon as possible include the lettered grading system and test scores as the main measure of achievement as well as a lack of disciplined and motivated in teachers who do their jobs correctly in order for their students to reach their full potential and excel in life. Out of all the issues with American education today, one of the most overvalued yet problematic for students is the grades and scores that represent their classroom proficiency and content knowledge. It is true that today, in the United States, the easiest and seemingly most reliable way to track student performance and rank schools by quality of education is by simply marking students based on their scores on assignments and assessments done in school or on standardized exams designed to measure mastery of content, and by comparing and analyzing the
Response to Intervention is a multi-tiered instructional approach to early identify students who are experiencing difficulties in daily classroom learning and are not meeting grade-level expectations. As a student moves across each tier the academic intervention changes and becomes more concentrated. The purpose of RTI is to recognized students when they begin to struggle and provide them with a high quality instructional approach, to avoid the unnecessary LD label to students who can be helped to improve their academic performance. Within RTI students’ development are recorded through curriculum base progress monitoring. Some elements of RTI are as followed; all students are screen entering the school, there are three tiers of increasingly intense instruction, the first tier occurs in regular education, continuously monitoring students’ progress through objective tests.
If a student were to fail a course or grade level, said student should be made to retake the course or grade level with extra help and guidance. If a student is thought to be at risk for low self-esteem caused by retention, they should be given the option of academic or social counseling. Pushing a child forward when they’re unprepared is unacceptable. Social promotion is causing a bigger issue than retention.
Several studies have been done to identify problems that affects student’s academic performance. The students’ academic performance depends on a number of socio-economic factors like students’ presence of trained teacher in school, teacher-student ratio, attendance in the class, sex of the student, family income, mother’s and father’s education, , and distance of schools (Amitava Raychaudhuri,
