Sentences with phrase «district high school graduation»

As part of the Syracuse City School District High School Graduation Initiative we are offering all rising 9th grade students a great opportunity to come and take part in a program that will help you succeed as a high school student.

The Syracuse City School District high school graduation rate has grown from 49 percent to just over 60 percent since 2012,

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A small portion of Northerly Island, the former site of Meigs Field airport, could soon become a scenic venue for concerts, weddings and even high school graduations, under a plan to be considered Wednesday by the Chicago Park District.

Carranza also previously served as the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, where he raised graduation rates to historic highs.

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Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city's high rate of poverty.

The graduation rate for the Syracuse City School District reached 55 percent for the 2014 - 15 school year, the highest it has been in eight years, per the State Education Department's weSchool District reached 55 percent for the 2014 - 15 school year, the highest it has been in eight years, per the State Education Department's weschool year, the highest it has been in eight years, per the State Education Department's website.

The Albany City School District touted a 59 percent graduation rate for the class of 2015 through August, the highest since 2008.

Its June graduation rate — which includes special education students who attended high school in special placements outside the district, according to officials — was 53 percent.

New York state lawmakers and parent advocates gathered at a school district in Orange County Wednesday to promote a bill to ensure all students with disabilities participate in high school graduation ceremonies.

The Zarb Commission relied on the set of school districts meeting the Regents» operational definition of an adequate education: 80 percent of their 4th graders passed the math and English exams and passed five of the high - school graduation tests.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

Chicago, Rochester Offer Flexible Graduation Options Two urban school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will allow students to graduate from high school in three, four, or five years.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

(The program substantially enhances high school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

Many school districts reserve the title «Graduation Day» for grade 12 students, so the progression of students from primary to elementary, elementary to middle, or middle to high school is called by another name.

In Los Angeles, when graduation standards were raised and it looked like many students would be denied high school diplomas, the school district turned to online credit recovery courses to get the students back on track.

The department approved the graduation - rate formulas of all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, many of which didn't require tracking the percentage of students who graduated within four years of entering high school, the IG's office...

Greene's «High School Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school distSchool Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school Graduation Rates in the United States» (revised in 2002) employs a unique method for calculating graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school graduation rates and presents his own rates for each of the 50 states, for distinct racial and ethnic group breakdowns, and for the 50 largest school distschool districts.

Approaches to and requirements of mandated community service vary widely: In Washington, D.C., 100 hours of community service are required for high school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 hohigh school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 school graduation; Illinois Consolidated High School District 230 requires just 24 hoHigh School District 230 requires just 24 School District 230 requires just 24 hours.

By 1986, 45 states and the District of Columbia had raised high - school graduation requirements, 42 had increased math requirements, and 34 had boosted science requirements.

The Virtual Instruction to Accentuate Learning program in Putnam County Schools in Cookeville, Tenn., has used blended learning to improve the district's graduation rate and help hundreds of students gain college credits while in high school.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

Kenneth Grover founded Innovations Early College High School, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to boost the district's graduation rate — its three high schools were losing 10 percent of their students every yHigh School, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to boost the district's graduation rate — its three high schools were losing 10 percent of their students every yhigh schools were losing 10 percent of their students every year.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

Knowledge of district rankings, however, has a slight effect on support for high school graduation exams.

This year's installment of Education Week's annual report features a comprehensive analysis of public high school graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every school district in the country.

Diplomas Now: Implement whole - school reforms to improve graduation rates in 41 middle and high schools in 13 districts

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

However, Miami - Dade is among school districts that have bucked that trend, achieving higher - than - average graduation rates among its Latino students and seeing large numbers of them scoring well on Advanced Placement tests.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

Under Dr. Avossa's four years at the helm, Fulton County Schools achieved dramatic academic gains, earning the district the highest graduation rate of Georgia's large school systems.

They then apply that method to estimate graduation and dropout rates for the Pittsburgh Public Schools district - wide and for each high school in the district.

A research - practice partnership between MDRC and New Visions for Public Schools (a nonprofit organization supporting district - run high schools in New York City) operated in 2015 and 2016 to tackle challenges related to high school gradSchools (a nonprofit organization supporting district - run high schools in New York City) operated in 2015 and 2016 to tackle challenges related to high school gradschools in New York City) operated in 2015 and 2016 to tackle challenges related to high school graduation.

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.

(Students allowed to take (without local district approval) online courses for credit and use them to meet high school graduation requirements in 2 additional states.)

Maintain the requirement that states and school districts issue and distribute annual report cards, including disaggregated data on student achievement and high school graduation rates, while also streamlining data reporting to ensure meaningful information is easily available to parents and communities.

Its graduation rate of 93 percent is among the highest in the school district.

Education Week reported in June that its high school graduation rate — 86 percent — was the highest among the nation's 50 largest districts for the third straight year.

To estimate the effects of states» adoption and implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and aligned assessments on student outcomes, C - SAIL is analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

During his tenure, OUSD saw increased graduation rates, decreases in out - of - school discipline, a decade - high investment in teacher pay, and historic improvements in district operations.

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

[1] U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through Public high school 4 — year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race / ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2014 &mdasschool 4 — year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR), by race / ethnicity and selected demographics for the United States, the 50 states, and the District of Columbia: School year 2014 &mdasSchool year 2014 — 15.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

More recently, No Child Left Behind forced schools and districts to start paying attention to high school graduation rates.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

So what's wrong with the idea of making the four - year college - prep curriculum the default curriculum for all students, as some states have done, or making completion of the curriculum required for admission to a state's four - year public university system a condition of high school graduation, as several large districts in California have done?

In addition, the Federal District Court decision in the landmark Debra P. vs. Turlington (1981) case directed that students must be provided with ample opportunity to learn the material tested when high stakes, such as high school graduation, are in place.