Sentences with phrase «narrowed the achievement gap due»

Since last school year, West Seattle has narrowed the achievement gap due in part to receiving a School Improvement Grant (SIG).

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If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

The bottom may move up, but I suspect over time, to the see those high scores go down and the achievement gap will be narrowed but not due to an increase from the bottom, but a decrease from the top.

The fact that almost all achievement gaps have widened, and that narrowed gaps are due to a decrease in performance by white and non-low-income students shows that we are failing to lead our students, especially those who have been historically underserved students, from reaching their full potential,» says MarylandCAN executive director Jason Botel.