Sentences with phrase «graduation testing mandate»

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Progress in Massachusetts is also no doubt attributable in part to the state's strong system of student accountability, including a universal graduation requirement pegged to the 10th grade statewide test - a provision missing from the NCLB mandate.

The number of students in alternative schools showed moderate increases contemporaneous with new national mandates regarding standardized testing and graduation rates.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

This means that the students that Mr. Poland is intentionally sending us can not read high school level texts or materials, yet Mr. Poland intends on evaluating us based on the new so - called «Smarter Balance» common core tests, tests that the students can not possibly pass because district mandate has advanced them without having held them to standards in the name of fraudulent graduation rates.

Responding to grassroots campaigns, Texas policymakers cut back the number of mandated tests from 15 to 5 while Minnesota eliminated its high school graduation exam requirement.