Sentences with phrase «city students passing»

When the state test was first given in 2004, about one in three city students passed the math test, and not even half of the test takers were reading proficiently.

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I have an opinion piece out on the City of Ottawa's universal, student transit pass — also known as «the U-Pass.»

The Oswego City School Board has passed its budget for next year, but parents and students from one school aren't happy with it.

At many New York City - run public schools, a majority of students are not passing statewide tests.

These bills are then passed on to property taxpayers in the students» city or town.

Senator Klein passed S. 4173A, which requires the New York City Department of Education to post cafeteria health inspection data online and send secondary notices home with students.

[58] Starting in 1999, CUNY colleges would be required to drop their remedial courses over a 3 - year period and restrict students who could not pass entry exams in an effort to deliver a higher quality college education through the city colleges.

If the bill is passed, the city would also be required to report a slew of new information to the state annually, including statistics about teachers, principals, admissions, student demographics, school overcrowding, expenditures, and more.

Tourists, office workers and other city denizens lined the route for the polyphonic scene and students from Battery Park City School cheered the musicians as they passedcity denizens lined the route for the polyphonic scene and students from Battery Park City School cheered the musicians as they passedCity School cheered the musicians as they passed by.

Some 100,000 city students in grades 3 - 8 fell below proficiency on the tougher 2010 tests after passing in 2009.

Tens of thousands of eighth - graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city's boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams.

The bill, which the City Council passed on Monday, will reimburse private and parochial schools with at least 300 students for the cost of hiring unarmed guards, up to a total of $ 19.8 million in the first year, and possibly more in future years.

In this week's Press Pass conversation, WBFO's Senior Reporter Eileen Buckley and Buffalo Education Reporter Tiffany Lankes discuss how numbers of African American students attended City Honors and Olmsted schools actually declined slightly.

He takes the case of AP Calculus results in Detroit and estimates that if the city were to restrict the course to students who score 66 or above on the PSAT Math test, then the resulting cost per passing score on the AP test would be $ 1,167.

More than three years ago, schools in the small central Ohio city of Coshocton launched an experiment to pay elementary students for passing or scoring high on state exams.

But as Figures 2a through 3b demonstrate, student passing rates in reading and math for New York City students have remained barely above 50 percent — in fact, have worsened in 8th - grade reading.

But, many of my former students say that can't pass by the City College campus without thinking about all the trips we took to the campus theater — and the big hill we had to climb to get there!

Hardly less popular is the more stringent rule that students must pass a test before moving on to the next grade, as is currently required for 3rd graders in both Florida and New York City.

In a new article for Education Next, Alexandra Logue and Mari Watanabe - Rose of City University of New York and Daniel Douglas of Rutgers University present evidence showing that if students assessed as needing remedial elementary algebra are instead placed directly into a college - level statistics course with additional support, they are more likely to pass their initial college - level quantitative course and, after three semesters, more likely to have completed college - level credits than are students placed in remedial algebra courses.

The need to help the students is even more urgent this year, because New York City schools» chancellor Joel Klein announced that third graders who do not pass the city's reading and mathematics tests will be retaiCity schools» chancellor Joel Klein announced that third graders who do not pass the city's reading and mathematics tests will be retaicity's reading and mathematics tests will be retained.

Their report, Update: Ending Social Promotion, states that the number of students who pass the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS), the standardized test the city's schools use, has increased.

And while 52 percent of students passed English exams in so - called low need districts, only 11.5 percent of students passed in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, the state's four largest cities after New York.

In the city, 30 percent of students passed the reading test and 35 percent passed the math, both slight improvements from the year before.

SA scholars passed state reading exams at more than twice the rate of district students, and three times the rate of New York City's black and Hispanic students.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

Tables of elderly black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.

For example, in 2006, 91 percent of the fourth - graders at McDonogh - 15, a charter school in New Orleans» French Quarter, passed their end - of - year tests, compared with 51 percent of students in the city's public schools.

Mississippi's charter school law passed in 2013 and today the state has three charter schools, all located in the city of Jackson, serving about 550 students in grades 5 - 7.

My local stretch of U.S. Route 206 tells the tale: Driving north, you'll first pass the inner - city school district of Trenton where 90 percent of students are economically disadvantaged (i.e., meet the requirements for free or reduced - price lunch, the government's proxy for poverty),...

In recent weeks, the boards of California's Los Angeles Unified and Santa Cruz city schools passed resolutions vowing to resist any requests for student information from federal immigration officials.

One solution is giving students city bus passes.

In a visit last month to a public school where 4 percent of students passed last year's math tests, and that shares a building with a Success school where 96 percent of the students passed, the city's schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, said, «We would like to be at that percentage, but we keep all our kids from the day they walk into the building.»

Better yet, New York City's students are passing their math, science, social studies, and English courses with flying colors.

The program focuses on eight problems, including the number of city children who are up to date on their vaccinations, the number of high quality preschool programs in the city, how many Milwaukee students pass third grade math and reading tests, and how many complete high school, go on to college, and eventually get a degree.

In New York City last year, 29 percent of public school students passed the state reading tests, and 35 percent passed the math tests.

The evidence is in the test scores: Only 11 percent of the students at schools with chronic absenteeism passed the city's math and reading tests in 2012 - 13.

StudentsFirstNY released a new analysis today showing that at 75 New York City district schools, not a single student in a grade passed the state math or ELA test.

In New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system with 1.1 million pupils, just 52 percent of the students who took last year's statewide Regents test in Algebra I passed, mirroring statistics elsewhere in the country.

Wilson said that the school district's internal review also saw excessive passing rates for absent students across the city, specifically at Anacostia, Eastern, Woodson and Roosevelt High Schools where «we are in the process of trying to understand what's behind some of the numbers there.»

The Department of Education's Special Education Reform passed in 2012 had sweeping implications for how New York City schools serve students with special needs.

Critics of charter schools argue that if the Nov. 8 ballot measure passes it could create a notable divide in many cities: The more academically capable students will end up in the charter schools while those with the gravest needs will be left in district schools.

Although the report says charters, specifically those serving low - income minority students in urban areas, outperform their district counterparts in many cities, the sector hasn't done enough to push the envelope in the nearly 25 years since the first charter law was passed.

So when the New York State Assembly rushed the vote on the Dream Act and it didn't pass by two votes, there was a protest at City Hall and I am definitely connected to some Dreamers, to New York City Dreamers and am down with many undocumented students.

More than a month has passed since the city's announced policy took effect, and parents and the public deserve full and immediate transparency on how the administration's decisions are impacting students.»

The decision, passed by a 6 - 0 vote, came after a positive recommendation from city staff members who had determined that the Summit K2 school plans to follow rules about student drop - off times, hours of operation, noise, parking and other issues observed by the former Windrush School.

Singer calculates this to mean 15 percent of all Latino students who attend the city's public schools pass through metal detectors on a daily basis.

As of 2003, for example, New York state was requiring its students to pass a science exam based in part on experience in the lab, but nearly a third of New York City high schools had no labs.

But it is surprising (and discomforting) that some cities show, say, 87 % of their students passing at basic 8th grade reading when the NAEP data shows only 55 % of their students passing basic 8th grade reading.

Bus passes have been the required district protocol for Park City School District students for over a decade.

In New York City's traditional public schools, 24 % of black and Hispanic students passed the state math test this year.