Sentences with phrase «credit recovery raises»

A credit mill gets grad rates up quickly, but real credit recovery raises grad rates and enables more learning so that students are really ready for college, work, and life.

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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.

Firstly, George Osborne and Danny Alexander deserve credit for designing a fiscal consolidation that broadly aligns with economic best practice: empirical evidence shows that a ratio of 4:1 spending cuts to tax rises appears to correlate with the fastest and strongest recoveries; raising taxes to fund government spending is counter-productive.

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.

In the Capital Region, East Greenbush is just one example of a school district that has been able to raise its graduation rates after implementing credit recovery.

Ever since LA Unified vaulted from a looming graduation crisis to potentially breaking its graduation record last school year after implementing a wide - scale online credit recovery program, questions have been raised about how much students are actually learning.

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.

Increased use of online credit recovery comes at a time school districts are under pressure by states and the federal government to raise graduation rates, hovering nationally around 70 %, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center.

Only board member Monica Ratliff raised any questions, saying, «Are these credit recovery courses really rigorous A through G courses?

Through the EVSC Virtual Academy, students are enrolling in online courses for advancement, early graduation, and credit recovery, or for grade replacement to raise their GPAs.

Bell isn't the first to raise red flags about the rigor of interventions like credit recovery.

A $ 15 million credit recovery program started in the fall that included online classes and staff interventions was credited with raising the projected rate to 74 percent by the end of the term, topping last year's rate of 72 percent, while California graduation rates also rose to a new high of 82 percent.

With the aggressive credit recovery programs showing so much early success, it does raise one question: Why wasn't this done before?

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