Sentences with phrase «graduation for latinos»

It serves to highlight the aforementioned «strong» school system you speak of - with the lowest rates of graduation for Latinos, Native Americans, and African Americans.

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There was also a 16 percent increase in the graduation rate in 2016, adding to a nearly 50 percent increase over the last five years, with particularly pronounced improvements for black and Latino students.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Although graduation rates for whites average 75 percent, only about half of African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans graduate.

Rochester has the country's lowest high school graduation rate for minority boys, graduating less than 9 percent of African American and less than 10 percent of Latino boys.

The authors demonstrate that the effects of high - stakes testing pro- grams on outcomes, such as retention and graduation, are different from the results of using grades alone, and that some groups of students who are already faring poorly, such as African Americans and Latinos / Latinas, will do even worse if high - stakes testing programs are used as criteria for promotion and graduation.

College Success Arizona understands that increasing college graduation rates across the state means creating opportunities for and enhancing the chances of completion, particularly for Latino and low - income students.

Schott Foundation Report notes abysmal rates in Rochester, NY for graduation of African - American and Latino males.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

As the first Latino Mayor of Los Angeles since 1872, Villaraigosa transformed education, growing the number of high - quality charter public schools and increasing the graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students.

African American and Latino students have graduation rates that while rising, trail behind those for Asian and White students.

The report includes what some districts are doing to close the achievement gap for Latino students and cited LA Unified as an example of how using a «culturally inclusive curriculum» by making ethnic studies a graduation requirement helps engage Latino students.

* This article was updated with the graduation rate for Latinos at Santee Education Complex, which was 82 percent for 2016, and to clarify that graduation rate for the three schools mentioned are based on the 2015 — 16 four - year cohort graduation rate released by the California School Dashboard in the Fall 2017.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

The graduation rate is 59 % for Black and Latino students.

In addition, graduation rates for Latino students at four - year institutions have been steadily increasing since 2002.

Graduations Up, Dropouts Down in LAUSD, Statewide High school graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified and districts across California increased last year, with Latino students showing larger gains than their white and Asian classmates, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.

Importantly, then, we found that the promising graduation and college readiness findings hold for students coming into Linked Learning with low prior achievement levels, as well as the Latino and female students who make up half or more of the study sample.

This is important because Latino students tend to enroll in less selective colleges than they qualify for (Fry, 2004), and students who attend more selective schools tend to have higher graduation rates (Sigal & Tienda, 2005).

In addition, Sac High had higher graduation rates and academic performance for African American and Latino students than many other high schools in the district.

To support the CREAR (College Readiness, Access and Retention) Futuros 2.0 and National CREAR Futuros Initiative, which will replicate the CREAR Futuros model in New York City and three additional regions, in order to significantly improve the retention / graduation rates of 1,130 students while demonstrating the national scalability of the model for both Latino and non-Latino students.

One year after he left the mayor's office, the graduation rate for Latino students went from 40 percent to 76 percent and 71 for black students.

[10] Of the 11 peer group cities, Buffalo, Denver, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia had large enough Latino student populations to report on graduation rates for Latino students.

Four - year (on - time) graduation rates for Wisconsin's Latino students (77.5 percent) were close to the national rate (77.8 percent), but still result in wide achievement gaps when compared with white students.

That number is troubling enough, but things look even worse when broken down by ethnic group - according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard the Californian graduation rate for African - Americans is 57 % (50 % for boys) and 60 % for Latinos (54 % for boys).

This project proposes to increase high school graduation rates and college applications among Latino and African American youth who are at - risk for not completing high school.