Sentences with phrase «graduation policies»

This report shows how the design of high school graduation policies can have important consequences for teaching, learning, and student attainment.

Now, as the city prepares to implement a controversial new graduation policy, he worries that some of his most vulnerable students may be even more likely to slip through the cracks.

When states design high school graduation policies, a multiple - measures policy can help them avoid defining achievement narrowly as performance on one test.

OSSE found that no principals benefitted from performance bonuses due to graduation policy violations in 2016 - 17, but cautioned that DCPS needs to be watchful.

(November 14, 2016) Students who are economically disadvantaged, Latino or African American benefited most from the alternative graduation policy established by the Texas legislature in SB149.

News Release: San Antonio (November 14, 2016)-- Students who are economically disadvantaged, Latino or African American benefited most from the alternative graduation policy established by the Texas legislature in SB149.

This policy brief provides 50 - state data on graduation policies in four broad categories: coursetaking requirements, exit exams, completion credentials, and mandatory - attendance age.

Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson deserves more than a little scorn for the violations of graduation policies (and the underlying causes of them) that took place under her watch.

At one campus, Anacostia High in Southeast Washington, nearly 70 percent of the 106 graduates received 2017 diplomas despite violating some aspect of city graduation policy.

Most importantly, the apparent «increases» only began when testing and graduation policies changed to artificially inflate this data.

The report focused on Ballou High School but also reviewed absenteeism and graduation policies system - wide.

What began as an effort to promote a state graduation policy that would recognize the use of existing high school graduation performance assessments quickly evolved into a professional learning community: CPAC.

A National Study on Graduation Requirements and Diploma Options for Youth with Disabilities (December 2004) NCSET Topical Report This Topical Report examines the results of a national study on the status of state high school graduation policies and diploma options for youth with disabilities.

The graduation policy violations are concentrated in the neighborhood high schools serving the city's most disadvantaged communities.

Diplomas Count was published by Education Week from 1996 to 2016 as an essential guide to graduation policy and rates.

The first annual report from this project, Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates, provides detailed data on high school graduation rates at the national, state, and district level.

CPS did not specify how it would amend its graduation policies, and only said the school board would take up the issue sometime in the future.

The Professor Emeritus and Research Professor has co-authored numerous articles centering around Maine's Proficiency - Based Diploma Systems, Implementing District - Level High School Graduation Policies, Challenges Faced by Maine School Districts in Providing High Quality Public Education, Pathways to College Readiness in Maine, The Impacts of Public Charter Schools on Students and Traditional Public Schools, Maine's Improving Schools, and more.

The report contains: A review of attendance and graduation in public schools in DC; a review of the Public Charter School Board's graduation policies and procedures; and an interim report on the audit and investigation of Ballou High School.