Sentences with phrase «graduation rate calculations»

Currently, the state uses a 4 - year graduation rate calculation that based on the calculations recommended by the National Governors Association.

Graduation and Dropout Statistics for Washington's Counties, Districts, and Schools Graduation Rate Calculations - March 2012 (PDF)

Except that students who leave the school before 12th grade apparently don't get included in the graduation rate calculation at least for schools like BASIS, as each BASiS school is reporting a 100 % graduation rate or something very close to that according to U.S. News and World Report.

States will be required to incorporate students in juvenile justice facilities in a school's graduation rate calculation.

If a facility offers diplomas, then its students will be included in that facility's graduation rate calculation.

Indiana, Louisiana, and South Dakota, for example, can count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations, in spite of decades of evidence that has long - ago showed that GEDs are not what comedian Chris Rock once called good enough diplomas, and that the ex-dropouts who gain GEDs fare as badly as dropouts who never go back for such shoddy credentials.

The Obama administration, for example, has allowed Indiana, Louisiana, and South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations.

Among their top concerns are the incorporation of super subgroups within state accountability systems, graduation rate calculations that include students who receive GEDs, and a lack of transparency and clarity about schools» performance.