Sentences with phrase «earn alternative diplomas»

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal audit says Alabama misreported graduation rates by including students who earned an alternative diploma.

Inspectors found Alabama had included students who earned an alternative diploma, even though federal education officials instructed the state years earlier not to include them.

Students need roughly half as many credits to earn an alternative diploma as they do a regular diploma.

Students who graduate from alternative schools can earn an alternative diploma, which meets the minimum requirements under California law.

Not exact matches

A lawsuit filed by AG Eric Schneiderman against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday by the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against the Utica City School District charges that children over 16 were funneled into alternative programs, in which they could not earn credits toward a diploma, as part of a broad program aimed at barring immigrants from the district's only public high school.

Ninety - seven percent of young adults from families with high incomes completed high school; more than 90 percent of them earned a regular diploma and 4 percent followed an equivalency test alternative.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

students who transfer to an approved alternative high school equivalency preparation program or high school equivalency preparation program approved pursuant to section 100.7 of this Part, but leave that program before the end of the third school year after the school year in which they first entered grade 9 without having earned a high school equivalency diploma or without entering a program leading to a high school diploma; and

Second, public schools are eligible to earn funding for a full day if they provide at least 43,200 minutes (4 hours per day) of instructional time to students enrolled in (1) a dropout recovery school; (2) an alternative education program; (3) a school program located at a day treatment facility, a residential treatment facility, psychiatric hospital, or medical hospital; (4) program offered at a correctional facility, or (5) a charter school providing adult high school diplomas or industry certification under Section 29.259.

Hailed by Governor Nathan Deal, Bridgescape Center provide students who have dropped out of school, or are at risk of dropping out, with a free alternative path to earn a their diploma.

The High School Diploma Completion Initiative provides students an alternative path to earning their high school diploma while obtaining high school and direct college cDiploma Completion Initiative provides students an alternative path to earning their high school diploma while obtaining high school and direct college cdiploma while obtaining high school and direct college credits.

Teen mothers who want to earn a high school diploma also can attend Roberts High School, Salem's other alternative school.

Although the curriculum of an alternative school must be real - world and engaging, it must also be credit - bearing so that students can earn a diploma, which most dropouts from traditional schools still want.

New federal rules that went into effect this year change the status of students who earned a GED or special education students who earned diplomas through Utah's Alternative Assessment (UAA).

US News & World Report's «High School Notes» queries NDPC / N Director Sandy Addis in a look at how alternative education settings provide a model for students to earn their diploma outside the traditional high school setting.

The Swartz Creek Academy (An Alternative High School) is a 21st Century opportunity for students to earn their High School Diploma or GED.