Sentences with phrase «graduation target»

Eliminates focus on a state's students with disabilities: Sen. Alexander's bill removes the requirement that states set both achievement and graduation targets for SWD.

Several Regents voiced skepticism over the proposed graduation target and other provisions of the plan, including steps to increase student test participation and discourage boycotts against state exams that have erupted across Long Island and the state during the past five years.

School leaders said in the report it would be impossible to meet the District's ambitious graduation targets without breaking the rules.

Establishing these specific graduation targets is clearly an effective measure given that young Hispanic students are now half as likely to drop out of high school as they were 15 years ago.

His amendments, for example, would require state accountability systems to set performance, growth, and graduation targets for all students, including all subgroups of students, and make performance against those targets matter for all schools.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.