Sentences with phrase «graduation rates over»

Five of the schools had graduation rates over 90 percent, and six saw their rates improve.

Regardless of the qualifications one might add to this number, this represents the continuation of an increasing trend in graduation rates over the past 20 years of standards and accountability based reform in Texas public education, and we should applaud educators across the state for this achievement.

Regardless of the qualifications one might add to this number, this represents the continuation of an increasing trend in graduation rates over the past 20 years of standards and -LSB-...]

This online tool allows users to explore changes in state graduation rates over the past decade.

This means that the net difference was a 5.1 - percentage - point increase in graduation rates over and above the influence of other factors that were affecting low - performing schools citywide.

While the scale of the dropout crisis remains troubling, it is worth noting that the majority of the nation's largest cities have seen improvements in their graduation rates over this period and that some of those gains have been substantial.

Speaking to congregants at Wayside Baptist Church in Brooklyn, de Blasio said mayoral control had given his administration the ability to launch the city's Universal Pre-K program, and played a role in driving up high school graduation rates over the past 15 years.

Lead and High School Graduation Rates Mother Jones, January 15, 2013 «Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane has a new paper out trying to estimate the high school graduation rate over time — something that turns out to be surprisingly hard....

The 14 percentage point boost in Evans» graduation rate over that period coincided with a substantial exodus of students from its neighborhoods to ALS schools.

Some 95 percent of Teacher U's 2010 graduates and 98 percent of its 2011 graduates met the 70 percent targets, he said, although the graduation rate over the two - year master's program is lower, between 70 percent and 80 percent because of attrition, Hostetter noted.

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Meanwhile, more colleges are facing embarrassing government and media scrutiny over their students» low graduation rates and high debt loads.

The Chiefs» graduation rate since 1988 is 27 %, and according to a report by Juli Rhoden of Oklahoma City's KTOK radio, over that same period no more than 10 % of the school's black players have earned their diplomas.

Over the last decade, New York City public school students have seen real improvements in their schools, most clearly evidenced by a graduation rate that has been climbing steadily after decades of stagnation.

- Committing over $ 1.3 million to Say Yes Buffalo, which in turn has helped city schools achieve the highest graduation rate in several years.

The Syracuse City School District high school graduation rate has grown from 49 percent to just over 60 percent since 2012,

De Blasio will unveil the new programs during a speech at the Bronx Latin School, where the mayor will announce that he intends to boost graduation rates from 68 percent to 80 percent over the next decade, and get two - thirds of those graduates «truly college - ready» based on Common Core standards.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

CTE programs already exist in Buffalo's public schools, where Superintendent Pamela Brown says the graduation rate is over 88 percent.

«It's a bittersweet situation, I think we have a person that has poured themselves into the Syracuse City School District over the last five years and have helped us move forward in terms of improving graduation rates, decreasing drop - out rates and getting our schools off the receivership list,» Dorsey said.

Together, we will push our graduation rate from just over 60 percent today to 70 percent, then 80 percent and beyond until we can be counted among the best urban school districts in America.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is distancing himself from the school board and its fight with State Education Commissioner John King over poor academic performance and low graduation rates.

In comparison, New York City's graduation rate was just over 70 percent.

CPC not only helps children be school ready, but improves reading and math proficiency over the school grades, which led to higher rates of graduation and ultimately greater economic well - being.»

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 graduation rates, the state wants to reduce the percentage of all non-graduating students by half over six years; the goal for all students is 94.9 percent in 2022.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Boston's four - year high school graduation rates have risen consistently over the past six years, reaching almost 66 percent for the Class of 2012.

The success has been astounding: over the past decade, the percentage of students meeting provincial standards in the annual literacy and numeracy tests for grades 3 and 6 has risen from 54 % to 71 %, and the high school graduation rate has grown from 68 % to 83 %.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

[2] As of 2010, patterns and trends over time in the high school graduation rate now are on the same basis for all states.

And while U.S. real GDP has nearly quintupled since 1970, education achievement of 17 year - olds and high school graduation rates have remained basically unchanged over the same time period.

But if states enforced similarly stringent requirements for exit exams, graduation rates — now over 80 percent nationally — would plummet and political outrage would ensue.

For example, over the last ten years, Georgia State University has used data analytics in conjunction with college advising with the goal of increasing the graduation rate of low - income students.

On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Considering that U.S. high school graduation rates are also up significantly over this period — and thus a greater portion of students are reaching the twelfth grade — these are mildly encouraging trends, despite the overall flatness of the lines.

It is time for the evaluation debate over school choice to begin shifting its focus to real world outcomes, like high school graduation and college attendance rates.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

West Virginia has been able to increase graduation rates by 5 percent over the last two years using information from a next generation predictive analytics early warning system.

Interact with the charts below to see how graduation rates for U.S. students, and different student populations, have changed over time and how your state's graduation rate compares.

Over that period, the report has used a proprietary method for calculating graduation rates known as the Cumulative Promotion Index, or CPI, which I developed in 2003 while working at the Washington - based Urban Institute.

In 2012, after years of worsening test scores and abysmal graduation rates, the Lawrence Public Schools system was taken over by the state of Massachusetts — and the answer to all three of those questions later turned out to be «yes.»

This interactive map allows users to explore changes in state graduation rates for every state and the District of Columbia over the past decade.

Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest - performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods of time.

Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) over multiple years.

«That was a blessing for us,» says Mayor - elect and former Central Principal Baraka, who boasts of increasing graduation rates from around 50 percent in 2007 to over 80 percent now.

the school has a graduation rate, as defined in subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, that is less than 60 percent over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision.