State plans may use
an extended year graduation rate to support students who take longer than four years to graduate from high school; however, state plans should emphasize graduation within four years.
The research also takes a closer look at
extended year graduation rates and how these calculations may impact the national graduation rate:
Not exact matches
Last
year, the district - wide
graduation rate rose above 50 percent for the first time in several
years, drop - out
rates have been falling and schools days have already been
extended through the Say Yes to Education program.
This policy brief
extends the analysis by a
year, adding information on high school
graduation rates for the 2006 cohort and providing a fifth
year of follow - up for the 2005 cohort.
Annually measures, for all students and separately for each subgroup of students, the following indicators: Academic achievement (which, for high schools, may include a measure of student growth, at the State's discretion); for elementary and middle schools, a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State, or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator; for high schools, the four -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate and, at the State's discretion, the
extended -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate; progress in achieving English language proficiency for English learners; and at least one valid, reliable, comparable, statewide indicator of school quality or student success; and
California intends to approve a different, but equally robust system, which will include indicators that are more appropriate for alternative schools (e.g., replacing four -
year cohort
graduation rate with an
extended year).
Pennsylvania's proposed indicators for federal accountability include a greater emphasis on academic growth, career readiness benchmarks, chronic absenteeism, and
extended -
year graduation rates for federal accountability purposes.
Tennessee will also track an
extended five -
year graduation rate and the drop - out
rate to encourage schools to continue to serve students who need more time to graduate.
«The Index will place additional emphasis on academic growth, evaluation of school climate through a robust chronic absenteeism measure, attention to both four -
year and
extended -
year graduation rates, and assessments of postsecondary readiness.»
The draft contains a number of elements we can support, including the removal of one - size - fits - all accountability, the elimination of the «school turnaround» models, the addition of
extended -
year graduation rates, and the maintained requirement for data disaggregation.
Significantly increase the cohort
graduation rate to 95 percent (4 -
year rate) and 96 percent (5 -
year extended rate) for all students and each student group;
* Defines the four -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate, the
extended -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate, and the transitional
graduation rates that are allowable until States must implement the four -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate
ESSA requires states to use at least the four -
year adjusted cohort
graduation rate for high school
ratings, and 13 states include an optional
extended cohort
graduation rate, such as five -, six -, or seven -
year rates.
In addition to the typical four -
year graduation rate, ESSA also gives states the option of including
extended -
year graduation rates that accommodate students who take longer to complete high school.
The author analyzed the ESSA plans that 16 states and Washington, D.C., submitted to the Department of Education, including updated plans, as of August 1, 2017.32 The analysis organizes the new measures of school quality or student success that states use in their school classification systems into four categories: early warning; persistence, other than four -
year or
extended -
year graduation rates; college and career readiness; and enrichment and environment indicators.
Notably, states must set more ambitious goals for improving
extended -
year graduation rates and closing gaps among student subgroups.51
According to CAP's analysis of first - round ESSA plans, 13 out of the 16 states will use
extended -
year graduation rates in their high school accountability systems.
Graduation rates, in which the state must decide if it wants to use the extended — year rate in addition to the four - year cohort gradua
Graduation rates, in which the state must decide if it wants to use the
extended —
year rate in addition to the four -
year cohort
graduationgraduation rate.