Sentences with phrase «passage rates»

The council has embraced a two - year ultimate bar passage rate of 75 percent of those who take the bar exam, which is typically administered by states twice a year.

Since the introduction of the tax cap in 2012, the average passage rate for school district budgets is 97 percent.

In 2004, the state commissioned a cost - function study that analyzed low student passage rates on the state assessment.

There was only a 40 percent passage rate before 2011.

The average passage rate since 1969 is 83 percent.

And the school's overall passage rate improved from 23 percent to 31 percent.

Their driving exam passage rate for 2014 was an awful 55 %, and I fully expect it to be even worse for 2015.

In math and reading, passage rates climbed five points from last year, to 69 percent and 71 percent respectively.

There were similar jumps for fourth - graders, whose passage rate went up 35 points on the reading exam and 21 points on the math exam from the previous year.

But the state doesn't appear to be concerned about the latest passage rates that show not much has changed.

Raising the minimum Bar passage rate requirements would only accelerate that trend.

Students should determine which examination the school typically prepares graduates to take, find the school's certification passage rate, and compare that to the national average.

Some states have very high bar passage rates, meaning you probably do not need to study eight hours a day for two months.

Passage rates for other subjects remained largely the same but still far surpassed state averages.

Like traditional public schools, charters saw a modest increase in their average passage rates, but they're still behind by more than 15 percent.

The school incurred $ 20 million in losses and had the worst bar passage rate in Indiana.

On July 12, when 2011 ISTEP + scores were released, we reported that the 80 schools enrolled at that time in Indiana's Choice Scholarship program had an average state test passage rate of 84.7 percent.

Virginia published statewide passage rates for the Standards of Learning (SOL) exams Tuesday, and the annual tests that measure students» performance across all subjects showed gains in almost every category.

With every test, an average of 4 percent of students across the state were able to convert failing scores to passing ones with the retakes, boosting passage rates.

As of August 18, with 250 schools enrolled, the average state ISTEP + passage rate in the voucher program ticked down only slightly to 83.6 percent.

Currently, many existing elementary schools in the South Indianapolis area have low student passage rates for standardized reading, ELA and Mathematics.

The Association notes that the average budget passage rate since 1969 is 85 percent.

Because of an 8 percentage - point decline in Washington's 2011 middle school passage rate on state standardized tests, the state placed the school on its intervention list — despite a 15 percent jump in its high school test scores.

One of our middle schools went from being «accredited with warning» in math for two consecutive years to earning Virginia's second - highest accreditation rating and achieving a 100 percent math passage rate.

Some grades at Carlin Springs Elementary had double - digit increases in their state test passage rates after a concerted effort to prepare disadvantaged students for the exams and closely track student performance on practice tests.

The New York State School Boards Association, however, found that's a percentage decline from a 99.3 percent passage rate last year to a 97.6 percent rate.

And passage rates back in 2014 and 2013 were 98.2 percent and 95.3 percent, respectively.

The model can be used to help estimate what passage rates are needed to avoid jeopardizing these populations.

The Alexandria school system, one of Northern Virginia's smallest and most - challenged districts, made gains in several subjects but still trailed behind its neighbors, with districtwide passage rates ranging from the high 60s to the high 70s.

Below, I have provided a table which compares Utah and its current elected State School Board model against the states which utilize Model IV in the following areas: ACT / SAT scores, graduation rates, graduation requirements, AP passage rates, charter schools, public education climate for growing businesses, and closing the achievement gap.

Ninth - grade students in our network of schools have shown distinct improvements in attendance, credit accumulation and Regents passage rates.

The study found 60 percent of New Orleans public high schools exceeded passage rates on End of Course exams.

The average district lost roughly 20 students, but many districts with ISTEP + passage rates approaching 60 percent or lower lost many more students:

For example, consider Chart 1, based on the data used in the LSAC Bar Passage Study, which shows the cumulative Bar passage rates over multiple attempts of persons with the same LSAT score:

They have extremely high success with their DMV passage rates.

Based on this disparity, LSAC concludes: «Clearly, many factors significantly affect bar passage rates above and beyond LSAT scores.»

Hiles said studies have shown that maintaining a long - term record of their educational experience can help students improve writing, course passage rates, critical thinking skills and higher job placement.

I looked at the Median LSAT score of the admitted matriculated students for five classes (2010 to 2014) at all three InfiLaw schools (Arizona Summit, Charlotte and Florida Coastal) and then looked at the first - time bar passage rate of the graduates of these schools three years later (2013 - 2017) in the state where the schools were located, which was where the majority of the graduates took the bar exam.

Nearby Beloit — a district with 780 students and significantly lower poverty rates — had 89 percent of students pass last year's reading test and 87 percent pass math, which are similar to statewide passage rates.

Dale Chu, assistant superintendent at the Indiana Department of Education, says the new growth model corrects flaws in the old system, which allowed schools with relatively low passage rates on statewide tests to still earn A's and B's.

California, for example, consistently has the lowest passage rate in the country ranging between 35 % to 55 %.

In Kentucky and New York, the first two states to adopt Common Core exams, student passage rates have declined.

Just for the record, others — including Cuomo — are spinning the 93.5 percent school budget passage rate a bit differently.

Of the Ohio schools, Case Western Reserve University School of Law had the highest overall passage rate of 64 percent.

2016 marked another year that the University of Washington School of Law led Washington law schools in the July Washington Bar Exam passage rate.

Fishers High School, widely regarded as one of the state's top - performing schools, earned a C despite posting a 94.5 percent passage rate on state tests — one of the state's top marks.