Sentences with phrase «including low graduation»

The authors of the report tie high suspension rates to other adverse outcomes, including low graduation rates and involvement with the juvenile justice system.

Racial inequality in discipline fuels racial disparities in long - term outcomes for young people, including low graduation rates and disproportionate contact with the criminal justice system.

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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.»

Top - tier colleges provide low - income students with life - changing opportunities, including robust financial aid, strong support systems, and significantly higher graduation rates.

This reform should include means - testing tuition fees and restoring maintenance grants so poorer students face lower fees and lower debt on graduation.»

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.

Factors included are growth in enrollment, under - resourcing (such as per pupil staffing and spending in alternative schools versus regular schools), and low graduation rates.

The included factors were growth in enrollment, under resourcing, and low graduation rates.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

The Alliance schools, which include 17 high schools and 9 middle schools, are all located in low - income neighborhoods but have an overall high school graduation rate of 94...

High school students assessed in the Performance Assessment model, who demographically include far more low - income, English - language learner and special education students than the state overall, have shown better high school graduation rates and college enrollment and graduation rates than stdents across the state.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

Some schools thought of as high or low performers in the past based on test scores could have ratings that show the opposite because of other factors being used in the ratings, including test score growth over time, readiness for graduation and progress on closing achievement gaps between student groups.

The Alliance schools, which include 17 high schools and 9 middle schools, are all located in low - income neighborhoods but have an overall high school graduation rate of 94 percent and combined 2012 - 2013 API scores of 760, which exceeds state (735) and LA Unified (693) averages.

With data dashboards, intervention would still be implemented when students, including those who are traditionally underserved, consistently demonstrate low achievement or graduation rates.

In remarks entitled «Race, Poverty, Power and Politics in our Education System,» Juneau detailed a trio of initiatives in her state to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to a quality education, including raising high school graduation and reducing dropout rates and improving low - performing schools.

New preliminary data released today by the U.S. Department of Education shows that states continue to increase high school graduation rates and narrow the gap for traditionally underserved students, including low - income students, minority students, students with disabilities and English learners.

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».

Some of the longest studies — those that have followed children from preschool graduation through adulthood — point to benefits that include a lower likelihood of incarceration, less need for public assistance, longer - lasting marriages and a lower risk of heart disease.

Comprehensive support schools include high schools with a graduation rate lower than 67 % and the lowest performing 5 % of schools within a state.

These schools include the lowest - performing 5 percent of elementary and middle schools, the lowest 5 percent of high schools, and high schools with graduation rates below 60 percent.

These concerns included: low graduation rates; inadequate preparation for postsecondary study among those who did graduate; and new demands for higher - level skills prompted by a changing economy.

Although efforts have been made to specifically improve graduation rates among subgroups that regularly have lower achievement, including English learners, those in the foster care system or low - income youth, the American Institutes» study released last week suggests districts should also target subgroups within racial and ethnic subgroups where significant cultural variety is common.

States also made significant adjustments to their accountability models, including ensuring high schools are held accountable for graduation rates, bolstering subgroup accountability, and strengthening the criteria schools and districts must meet before they are no longer deemed low - performing.

The new program will designate 94 of the city's most troubled schools, including the Coalition School, as Renewal Schools based on a list of criteria including low four - year graduation rates for high schools and poor test scores for middle and elementary schools.

High grades bring rewards and low grades bring consequences, including possible school closure.Like CEOs answering to their boards, public school principals in New York City rise and fall with their bottom line: their students» test scores, graduation rates, and in high school, how many credits their students accumulate.

High schools with persistently low graduation rates also had to be included in one of the two groups.

Examples include the delivery of the initial training and follow - up webinars on the Working Systemically approach in Texas, professional development of a Georgia SEA initiative to assist low - performing schools raise student performance by building student thinking skills using Thinking Maps ®, design and delivery of professional development sessions focused on dropout prevention and increasing graduation rates in Alabama, and the delivery of professional development sessions and dissemination webinars for an Early Warning Data System in Texas that identifies at - risk students and connects them to appropriate intervention strategies.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration is promoting a new College Rating System that will tie federal aid to college performance — including percentage of low - income students enrolled, graduation rates, and keeping tuition costs down.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

«Examples include the NC Healthy Start Foundation, which supports better birth outcomes and saves the state money through lower healthcare costs, and pre-k programs, which help narrow reading and math achievement gaps and increase the state's graduation rate.»