Sentences with phrase «greatest graduation rate gaps»

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).

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While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

The second group, Focus schools, consists of schools in which the gaps in achievement or graduation rates among student subgroups specified in the ESEA statute are greatest or the achievement or graduation rates among these subgroups are lowest.

The gap narrowed because the graduation rates of males, especially Hispanics, experienced greater increases.