Sentences with phrase «include graduation rates»

Those improved outcomes include graduation rates which have gone up in Connecticut for the seventh year in a row, aided along the way by strong charter schools.

States would also be required to include graduation rates in their accountability systems, as well as one measure of post-secondary education or workforce readiness (such as college enrollment rates, for example), and English proficiency rates for English - language learners.

In addition to scores on math and English, states will have to include graduation rates, progress of English learners, and one other «non-academic» indicator of school quality that states would be free to choose on their own.

In addition, Indiana high schools» letter grades will include graduation rates and the number of students earning college credits or professional certifications for the first time.

(Indicators could include graduation rates, student attendance, suspension rates and parent, family and teacher engagement.)

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

A new law passed last year requires that the method used to calculate the API reduce to no more than 60 percent the weight given test scores and include other indicators of success, including graduation rates and proof that a student is college and / or career ready.»

The bill could have added more factors to the index, including graduation rates.

Priority schools are identified based on overall student performance in reading and mathematics, including graduation rates in the case of high schools.

The other half will come from metrics including the graduation rate, attendance rate and, primarily, test scores.

IDRA's calculation includes the graduation rates of all charter schools, including those that have asked the state to be rated under alternative standards.

The administration also failed to fully address other concerns: For example, it granted Georgia a waiver in spite of concerns that it didn't include graduation rate data for poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups».

U.S. News based its rankings on state test scores and college readiness, while Newsweek's methodology included graduation rates, college acceptance and AP exams.

This change does not affect the ongoing D.C. voucher evaluations that are already in progress — namely, to explore the long - term effects of D.C. vouchers, including graduation rates.

A number of indicators, a minimum of 10 for each school, including graduation rates and suspension numbers, determined progress.

By most academic measures — including graduation rates, dropout rates and college attendance — they lag other students in the state.

Likewise, Cruz pointed out, including graduation rates would induce schools to provide more counseling and career services for young people, and adding in suspension and expulsion rates would drive a state movement to greatly reduce the number of kids being sent away from school.

School ranks were determined based on several criteria including graduation rate, student - teacher ratios and financial - aid.

The rankings are based on factors such as student body caliber and educational resources, and outcomes including graduation rates and post-graduation earnings.

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Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.

I draw on the work of many analysts, including Melissa Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research and the authors of the book «Crossing the Finish Line,» to suggest that doing a better job of developing non-cognitive skills in students could be a particularly fruitful way to increase college - graduation rates.

De Blasio responded by pointing to successes under the mayoral control program, including higher graduation rates and test scores as well as an expansion of computer science courses.

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

State Budget Solutions examined national trends in education from 2009 to 2011, including state - by - state analysis of education spending, graduation rates and average ACT scores.

The duo also touted other hikes in overall city school metrics, including higher graduation rates and improved — but still mediocre — college - readiness rates.

The 2018 request includes a single item — more than $ 3.63 million to fund the second year of a three - year plan to grow enrollment to 1,200 and increase four - year graduation rates.

Nevergold said some of the positives with the district include the relationship with the superintendent and staff, reducing class sizes, an increased graduation rate, and community involvement.

His higher education policies have included calling for laws to limit the amount of time a student can receive state tuition assistance while in a public university, which he said would increase the rate of graduation in four years.

SOL also represented a community response with sense of urgency to find reachable solutions to pressing issues facing the Latino community, including the hostile political climate, crisis of affordable housing, threats to immigrants rights, low graduation rates and lack of access to higher education, and lack of job opportunities.

De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan wouldn't comment on the possibility of running against Donovan, but cited a record the mayor will run on next year that includes, «crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.»

De Blasio stuck to his regular campaign arguments about his accomplishments, including universal pre-kindergarten, falling crime, efforts to prevent evictions, rising graduation rates, and more.

That includes the city of Syracuse, which had a graduation rate of 48.4 percent, which was up two and a half percent from the previous year.

The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

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.

Its June graduation rate — which includes special education students who attended high school in special placements outside the district, according to officials — was 53 percent.

After the speech, Warren also talked about initiatives she wants to build on, including finding ways to improve graduation rates.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Some of these states have been rewarded with record high graduation rates and an uptick in student achievement, with major gains among students who have traditionally been furthest behind, including students with disabilities.

They were in real financial duress even though the schools had near 100 percent graduation rates (including from college).

The 20 partnerships KIPP has entered into with colleges, including the University of Houston, Tulane, Morehouse, Spelman, Syracuse, Duke, and New York City's Hunter College, will improve KIPP's graduation rates by 7 to 8 percent «even if we did nothing else,» says Barth.

This map includes state - by - state graduation rate data, as well as state graduation rates for historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups.

Those goals include raising West Charlotte High School's graduation rate from 54 percent in 2011 to 90 percent in 2016, and she saw that the Opportunity Culture models could help by focusing on its eight feeder schools.

There are various graduation - rate goals for different student groups by 2022, including 85 percent for all students.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

Academic achievement, academic progress, graduation rates for high schools (including four -, five -, six -, and seven - year graduation rates), English - language proficiency

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).

The relevance of including students with disabilities in assessment and accountability has been demonstrated by the increase in the number of students with disabilities in many states who took and passed the standardized tests and an increase in graduation rates in recent years.

A trove of correlational studies have also demonstrated benefits for high school athletes, including higher grades, increased graduation and college completion rates, and a decrease in various antisocial behaviors.

Better yet, they might start to include college matriculation and graduation rates in their high - school accountability systems.