Sentences with phrase «now meeting state academic standards»

After five years of landing on the state's list of low - performing schools, a tiny South Texas district that drew national headlines for cutting its sports program to ward off closure is now meeting state academic standards.

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Patty Quinones, who was then the school's principal and is now the district's assistant superintendent of innovation, worked backward to translate the end goals into curricula that met the state's academic standards.

Balancing the needs of these children against the mandate to educate and now to meet academic standards set by state agencies is a formidable task, and schools are finding their curricula bulging with special units on what are sometimes seen as nonacademic and irrelevant frills — social skills training, anger management, conflict resolution, and safe sex, to name a few.