Sentences with phrase «credit recovery by»

Petrilli said the growing use of credit recovery by school districts is alarming and may be responsible for the record high national graduation rate that was achieved for the 2013 - 14 school year.

Although the state keeps no official numbers, credit recovery by all accounts has expanded rapidly over the last decade and remains poised for growth.

Apex has expanded to credit recovery by offering online core classes as well.

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Still, we're in the fifth year of a very weak recovery in which small businesses have been hit hard by tight credit markets, slow sales and limited spending.

Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery.

December 2009 (1967 kb PDF file): The Q&A in this issue features seven questions about political influence and the financial crisis (by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, and Thierry Tressel); research summaries on «Credit Conditions and Recoveries from Financial Crises» (by Prakash Kannan) and «Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies» (by Turgut Kýþýnbay); the contents of the latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; a listing of visiting scholars at the IMF during October — December 2009; and listings of recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Position Notes

Market watchers have warned that a further clampdown on Russia by the West could threaten Europe's fragile recovery and risk a «credit crisis» in Russia and beyond.

A federal appeals court has affirmed four lower court judgments that debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates violated federal law by failing to report to credit bureaus when consumers disputed the amount of debt they supposedly owed.

If the recovery got underway in earnest and credit demand surged, we could slow down the rate of credit creation by raising the interest rate we pay on excess reserves.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

In 2007, though, officials defended their inaction by citing the want to make mortgage credit available to U.S. home buyers during a crucial stage of the housing market's recovery.

Officials defended their decision by saying that making mortgage credit available to U.S. home buyers was crucial to the housing market's recovery.

As we have long expected, the economy is tracing out a trajectory typical of the weak recoveries that follow balance - sheet induced recessions and credit crises caused by highly excessive debt.

Against this backdrop, we maintain our scenario of a strengthening cyclical recovery, with euro area GDP growing at around 1.8 % this year and next, above potential, on the back of rising domestic demand (household consumption and investment) fuelled by bank credit.

Against this backdrop of ECB support, we maintain our scenario of a stronger cyclical recovery, with euro area GDP growing at around 1.8 % this year and next, above potential, on the back of rising domestic demand (consumption and investment) fuelled by bank credit.

As the financial crisis waned and the emergency lending programs were wound down, the Fed chairman faced a new challenge: A recovery hobbled by tight credit, a lackluster housing market and financial turmoil in Europe that left the unemployment rate at 9.1 percent two years after the expansion began.

By providing low cost capital to Community Development Credit Unions and Non-Profit Loan Funds, the State is helping to insure that small businesses can continue to be an engine of recovery and growth in communities where it is most needed.»

«Chancellor Fariña has taken an important step to deal with the credit - recovery problems caused by the Bloomberg administration and continued by his appointees — a scandal that school «reformers» chose to ignore when Bloomberg was in charge of the system,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

To determine whether declining pollutants deserve credit for the recovery, the researchers used a 3D atmospheric model to separate the effects of the chemicals from those of weather, which can affect ozone loss through winds and temperature, and volcanic eruptions, which deplete ozone by pumping sulfate particles into the upper atmosphere.

Like other U.S. solar manufacturers, First Solar's search for project investors has benefited from a 30 percent tax credit that was converted to a temporary cash grant by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The report credited the Montreal Protocol, which it called «one of the world's most successful environmental treaties,» for the recovery of the ozone layer, which it projects will help prevent two million cases of skin cancer by 2030, besides preventing damage to humans» immune systems as well as wildlife and agriculture.

With proper attribution and credit, the CDC DPP curriculum may be used as follows without further permission or license from the University of Pittsburgh: a. Non-profit research and non-commercial education purposes; b. Charging a fee solely for cost recovery of materials and operations related to delivery of the curriculum; c. Use of the curriculum for the purpose of third - party reimbursement so long as no profit is made on this specific effort by the party delivering the lifestyle change intervention or administering these curricula as it is described above, for third - party reimbursement.

Lots of other places eased off or deferred their exit standards, while still others hacked alternate paths to diplomas that circumvented their exit standards and / or devised ersatz «credit recovery» schemes whereby diplomas could be «earned» without even passing the classes dictated by the old Carnegie Unit rules.

Students who fail courses are often offered «credit recovery» programs to obtain their needed credits, and these were found in an investigation by the Los Angeles Times to have extremely low standards.

Principals graduate kids by enrolling them in dubious, click - through, on - line «credit recovery» programs.

This marks a similar trajectory to the path that early online - learning programs took, by offering courses in credit recovery or Advanced Placement, where schools had limited or no offerings.

These were, in fact, forms of «credit recovery» and they honored both the American principle of second chances and the schools» insistence that certain academic standards be met by their pupils.

«Course Credits on the Quick: Controversial online recovery programs speed the path to graduation» by Andrew Brownstein was also a finalist in the category of «Adult News Story.»

Instructional Design is an important component of online learning, not only for kids who need credit recovery — which we call learning recovery, by the way — but for any student.

As I've noted before, alternative high schools, or dropout - recovery programs, are well - suited to forging competency - based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels.

A reporting project by a group of students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism tackled some of the nuances of the debate, looking at a range of schools from those clearly gaming the system (much to the frustration of teachers) to those that reflect the ideals behind credit recovery.

Florida pads its graduation rate by running students through «credit labs» and credit recovery programs.

By spring, one of the starting five has transferred to an online credit recovery program inside Marshall.

An L.A. Times editorial writer arranged to take one of the online credit recovery courses taken by students and found good and bad.

In December, only about half of LAUSD seniors were on track to graduate, but by June, many of those students were all caught up after taking advantage of credit recovery programs.

By definition, students taking online credit - recovery classes are behind in school.

,» by Zoe Kirsch, describes how one school district came to rely on online credit recovery to boost its graduation rate.

The first article, «The New Diploma Mills,» by Zoe Kirsch, describes how one school district came to rely on online credit recovery to boost its graduation rate.

Credit Recovery (CR) courses in those subjects are not approved by the NCAA.

Apex is one of two companies contracted by LA Unified to provide online credit recovery courses.

Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe said the company began in 1999 by providing online advanced placement programs, but in 2005 it started providing online credit recovery programs, which have «really just taken off from there.»

In January, LA School Report reported that 42 percent of the graduating Class of 2016 took part in credit recovery either through re-taking courses they've failed or by using online credit recovery, in which most of the work is done online and over a shorter period of time.

The rigor of the online credit recovery programs came under scrutiny by LA Unified watchers as well as by those within the district, including the school board president.

Four hundred eleven more were awarded diplomas by the district because it wrongly designated their work through credit recovery programs (or make - up classes) as original high school credits.

Offer rigorous online courses for initial credit and credit recovery aligned to state standards developed and taught by Highly Qualified, SC - licensed teachers.

Here are Zimmer's comments on the district's online credit recovery program, administered by companies including Edgenuity, which has been scrutinized for its rigor amid the district's recent announcement that its graduation has reached a record 75 percent even as the bar has been raised with the requirement that students pass the A through G, the course criteria established by UC faculty.

But now we know that about one - third of recent DC high school graduates — 900 students — had no business receiving diplomas, and that they marched across the stage last Spring because some adults changed their grades or pushed them through the farce known as «credit recovery,» in which students can receive credit for a semester by spending a few hours over a week's time in front of a computer.

Because students by this time needed to make up credits to graduate, Riddile initiated a longer school year and a summer credit recovery program.

The credit recovery program was enacted by the school board this fiscal year to help offset a potential graduation crisis, as this year is the first time the A-G courses are required for graduation.

We started by using technology to help students with credit recovery and for summer school.