Sentences with phrase «readiness schools bill»
Second, our Readiness Schools bill offers new tools, rules, and support to help low - performing schools turn around quickly and effectively.
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Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the fact that high school graduation rates ticked up two percentage points, but this data point obscures the fact that college readiness in NYC high schools lags far behind graduation rates.
«Foundation president Bill Gates concluded that small schools did not have the effect on college readiness and graduation rates that he expected,» explained researchers from Duke and MIT.
Since 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested nearly $ 4 billion in grants and scholarships to increase opportunity in the U.S. by improving high school graduation and college readiness rates, and expanding access to college.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.
The Senate on Oct. 7 gave final approval to a bill authorizing federal grants for educational - television programming and training materials designed to improve the school readiness of children.
The bill would create a new jobs program for welfare recipients under which states could provide such services as high - school equivalency programs, literacy and English - as - a-second language instruction, skills training, work experience, and job - readiness and placement programs.
Additionally, the bill allows such grants to be used to: (1) support strategies to increase parent, family, and community engagement in the education of English learners; (2) develop and share effective practices in the instruction of English learners; and (3) support strategies that promote English learners school readiness.
The Utah State Board of Education approves new charter schools, fee waivers, a career and college readiness plan, amendments to how graduation rates are calculated and takes positions on seven bills in its monthly meeting today.
The bill also establishes that all schools in California will use new computer testing being developed by a consortium of states aimed at measuring student progress toward college and career readiness.
The bill eliminates Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for Colleges and Careers (PARCC) testing in the 10th through 12th grades, takes steps to alleviate testing for English language learners, and streamlines School Readiness and READ Act testing to give more instruction time to students in kindergarten through third grade.
The schools bill themselves as building the «Three C's» — Christ, college readiness and character.
Funding for Wave IV, Breakthrough Model Schools for College Readiness, was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The bill (A-2567) would require school districts and the Department of Education (DOE) to post information on their websites regarding student participation in the assessments developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC assessments).