Sentences with phrase «address low graduation»

When we address the low graduation rates and underlying literacy issues facing young men of all socioeconomic backgrounds, we are also helping high - performing young women of all races and economic backgrounds succeed.

SAISD is negotiating another partnership with a Dallas - based charter network to address low graduation rates at Lanier and Highlands high schools.

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The administration also failed to fully address other concerns: For example, it granted Georgia a waiver in spite of concerns that it didn't include graduation rate data for poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups».

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

Meredith Kolodner writes about high schools which are successfully decreasing suspensions and expulsions through trauma sensitive practices that address the reasons for a student's behavior in her article, «How Schools Can Lower Suspension Rates and Raise Graduation Rates».

Bill Clinton Addresses «College Track» Students Associated Press — May 10, 2012 Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the first New Orleans graduation ceremony of the Urban League's College Track program, a national after - school program that helps low - income students make it to college.

The TalentED Project is specifically designed to address the challenges that lower - income, first - generation, college - goers face in matriculating to selective institutions and persisting to graduation.