Sentences with phrase «graduation crisis»

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.

The Coalition Holds a Policy Briefing on Rethinking Pathways to Graduation in New York State On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, the Coalition for Multiple Pathways to a Diploma sponsored a policy briefing [PDF] in Albany with State Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan and Senator John Flanagan to discuss the current graduation crisis in New York State and opportunities for offering alternative pathways to a diploma.

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.

King inherited a number of major district problems, but perhaps none more urgent than the pending graduation crisis.

The move was in response to a looming graduation crisis, as the school board raised the bar for graduation requirements and installed a series of courses called «A through G.» Students would need to take and pass the A-G courses before the end of their senior year, and if they earned all C grades or above would be eligible for admittance into California's public universities, although the district allows D's for graduation.

The effects of this graduation crisis fall disproportionately on the nation's most vulnerable youths and communities.

Of the 11,000 school systems nationwide, 7 Florida districts are among the 25 nationally determined to be at the «epicenter of the graduation crisis.»

To solve our state's graduation crisis, we must turn around our persistently low - performing schools, attract, retain and reward effective teachers, dismiss ineffective teachers, and create more public school choices so that no child is forced to attend a school that doesn't meet his or her individual needs and learning style.

While district leaders are predicting that LA Unified will avoid any graduation crisis due to the credit recovery program, and that graduation rates may even rise to new highs, the district still grapples with the same issues San Diego is facing from choosing to raise the graduation bar.

LA Unified's graduation crisis is hitting every local district and nearly every large high school, from the San Fernando Valley to the South Bay, and from East LA to the Westside.