Sentences with phrase «not graduating»

VEWS — Virginia Early Warning System used by schools to identify students at risk of not graduating on time or dropping out.

«What's frightening is that scholars of color disproportionately are not graduating nationally.

With fewer students in danger of not graduating, fewer are obviously in need of credit recovery.

In addition, they learned that more than one - third of their students in colleges required remedial classes which indicated a high risk of not graduating.

Children who experience poverty in their preschool years, in particular, have a substantially higher risk of not graduating from high school and so of suffering all of the resulting economic consequences.

This is remarkable in itself, but even more so given that Linked Learning schools enroll greater numbers of students from groups at risk of not graduating.

And those families» children are at the greatest risk of not graduating from high school.

The solution to the problem of students not graduating due to failing the End of Course exams is for the legislature to pass a simple bill waiving the End of Course exams and waiving the Collection of Evidence as a graduation requirement.

If so, why do the promoters of House Bill 2214 (the SBAC test monopoly acceleration bill) keep referring to 2000 kids not graduating when the real number is 11,000 kids not graduating due to the draconian Collection of Evidence process?

In addition, despite the tremendous improvement in our high schools, one in four entering freshmen are still not graduating, and too many of our graduates are not prepared for the next phase in their life, whether post-secondary education or employment.

[This book] looks at the reasoning behind nearly a third of American youths not graduating high school.

We're not graduating the type of people we need to be graduating.

As she continued to work with her leadership team and look at who is in danger of failing courses and not graduating, one of the first things that we noticed was attendance.

As a result, their grades have slipped, putting them in a position where they must act quickly or face not graduating or moving up to the next grade level.

Looking at the «current reality», some of the seniors in danger of not graduating are not coming to school much at all.

State law, however, requires early graduation plans for students at risk of dropping out of high school or not graduating on time.

Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD's) high schools were not graduating over 50 % of their students, and those that were making it through were rarely prepared for college.

Most of these students are at risk of not graduating because they lack sufficient course credits.

Despite years of trying to fix high schools, students are still not graduating academically prepared for college level work,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

To reverse that trend, many districts and organizations are turning to early warning systems (EWS) that signal whether a student is at risk of not graduating from high school.

Early warning systems are a data - based decision making process designed to identify and support students at risk of not graduating on time.

A study by the Business Roundtable in 2003 came to a similar conclusion, saying about 30 percent of students are not graduating with a high school diploma.

Ironically, they have also opened more doors to failure, in the sense that a greater number of students are now at risk of not graduating,» the report stated.

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«About 21 percent of our students are not graduating high school, and absenteeism plays a huge role in that,» Chris Reykdal, superintendent of public instruction, said in a statement.

Yet, despite this progress, students with disabilities continue to lag disproportionately behind their peers which results in far too many not graduating high school, receiving career training, entering college and working in integrated and competitive employment.

Schools explore the positive results of providing small grants to low - income students who are a risk for dropping out or not graduating on time.

Many students with disabilities, a population crucial to overall graduation rates, are not graduating on time and with their peers.

It serves 300 11th - and 12th - graders at risk of not graduating due to lack of class credits.

Despite widespread and long - standing attention to the issue, school dropout persists with some estimates as high as 1 of every 5 students not graduating.

Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis This report highlights the urgent need to address the impending crisis of minority groups not graduating from high school at troubling rates....

Topics include teacher - student relationships, the participation of parents of students who were in jeopardy of not graduating, and teacher mentoring as part of the program to help at - risk students fulfill graduation requirements.

For admission, students must qualify as at risk of not graduating and must apply directly at the school or at MPS Central Services.

We focus on the scores of students at the 25th percentile of the distribution of achievement for each group, because it is low - performing students who are at greatest risk of not graduating from high school.

According to Robbins, one principal noticed a few months before graduation that certain kids were at risk of not graduating.

It has become a successful tool for us to use with students at risk of not graduating.»

After all, if all students must meet a defined external standard, there may not be much glory in failing and being subject to a consequence as harsh as not graduating.

The Mitchell Institute report, Preparing young people for the future of work, found that students are not graduating from school with the abilities they require to prosper.

Her research revealed that 43 percent of Massachusetts third - graders read below grade level, which may lead to continued struggles in high school and puts them at significant risk of not graduating or contributing to the state's knowledge - based economy.

[7] Similarly, a study of Baltimore City Public Schools found that chronic absenteeism was the strongest sixth grade predictor of not graduating high school.

Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems (EWS) represent a collaborative approach by educators, administrators, parents, and communities to identify and support students at risk of not graduating.

«If I were a first - grade teacher or principal of an elementary school, finding out that my students are at risk for not graduating from high school — it's important, but it's not very tangible or actionable or relevant to where I'm at today,» Curtin says.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

Similarly, students who withdrew with no intention of returning or left for other reasons, such as nonattendance, court action, joining the military, marriage, pregnancy, and medical problems, but did not later graduate, are counted as not graduating.

Students earning a GED or special education diploma are counted as not graduating.

At the time, I was concerned that «dropout» statistics were masking a much larger problem that many in government knew existed but weren't sharing: hundreds of thousands of black and brown students nationwide were not graduating high school.

The state has the same goal for the share of students not graduating over the same 12 - year time span.

Cut in half the share of all students and subgroups not proficient on English / language arts and math exams by 2030; cut in half the share of high school students not graduating after four years

Many of the students in danger of not graduating have taken the test up to seven times, according to the union.

African Americans are more likely than whites to believe eating a poor diet in childhood (55 % to 42 %), not getting vaccinations as a child (54 % to 43 %), living in poverty in childhood (47 % to 31 %), not graduating from high school (46 % to 26 %), and being born premature or underweight (34 % to 20 %) are extremely important.