Sentences with phrase «graduation rate gap»

Closing achievement and graduation rate gaps requires comprehensive school reform that includes a focus on a positive school climate that meets and develops the academic, social, and emotional needs of every student.

As Anne Hyslop reported, the newly announced waiver guidelines now ask states for «a demonstration that a school may not receive the highest rating in the state's accountability system if there are significant achievement or graduation rate gaps in the school that are not closing.»

After 30 years of stagnation, high school graduation rates increased by 6 percentage points between 2000 and 2010, while the black - white and Hispanic - white graduation rate gap narrowed to 8.1 and 8.5 percentage points, respectively, according to new research from Education Next.

States would identify and support «priority» schools (the lowest performing 5 percent of Title I elementary schools and Title I secondary schools, as well as secondary schools with graduation rates under 60 percent) and «focus» schools (Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps and secondary schools with the greatest graduation rate gaps).

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

«Yet significant graduation rate gaps remain among various student subgroups and progress must accelerate over the next five years if the 90 percent goal is to be met equitably.»

Kansas has one of the nation's smallest graduation rate gaps between students with disabilities and students without disabilities.

For example, states must now prove that a school is not eligible to receive the highest rating in the state's accountability system if the achievement or graduation rate gaps in that school are not shrinking.

Between 2012 and 2017, Minnesota's graduation rate gap has decreased by nearly 30 percent.

Closing the graduation rate gaps amongst subgroups is a challenge for many schools.

They're also expected to adopt college - and career - ready standards; link teacher, principal, and student - achievement data; and identify persistent achievement and graduation rate gaps.

Still, the graduation rate gaps for both African American and Latino students remain larger than most peer group cities.

At the same time, we have a long way to go and need to work together to get there... the gap between income groups for College and Career Readiness is more than twice the graduation rate gap, showing that far too few of our low income students are prepared for college, career, and life after high school.