Sentences with phrase «passed statewide tests»

At many New York City - run public schools, a majority of students are not passing statewide tests.

In an effort to end so - called social promotions, Mr. Bush would require students in certain grades to pass statewide tests in order to move up a grade.

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

But objections to the growth model — which places less emphasis on the rate at which a school's student body passes statewide tests and more emphasis on individual students» improvement — predate election season.

Not exact matches

Statewide, just 31 percent of students passed — a steep decline from the previous year, when substantially different tests were given.

On the English tests, students statewide only improved by a tenth of a percentage point, from 31.3 percent passing in 2013 to 31.4 percent in 2014.

Today in Massachusetts, as in many states, students who fail to pass the statewide graduation test are prevented from receiving a diploma.

* What happens in states (about half of them) that already have statewide graduation tests (e.g., Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and the Ohio Graduation Test) with minimum passing scores?

In recent years, 86 percent of the school's 8th graders passed the state's writing test, above the statewide average of 62 percent and better than the public schools of wealthy Greenwich.

As a result, 66 % of the school's students pass Connecticut's eighth - grade test, compared with a statewide average of 56 % and a New Haven average of 23 %.

Mayor Greg Ballard announced Tuesday he plans to revoke the school's charter because so few of its students passed statewide standardized tests this spring.

Last year, 77 percent of students statewide were deemed proficient in English, up from 62 percent in 2006; 86 percent passed the math test, compared with 66 percent three years earlier.

Three years after Maryland began to hold public school students to higher standards, results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress and less than half statewide passed the tests.

Statewide, only 22 percent of low - income black students — among the lowest performing groups, along with students with disabilities and students not yet fluent in English — passed English tests, while just 13 percent passed the math exams.

In contrast, 55 percent of Wiseburn's poor black students passed the English test — 11 points above the statewide average for all students.

Statewide, 73.5 percent of Indiana students passed both the math and English language arts ISTEP + tests this spring — that's a 10 percent increase in pass rates since 2008.

With one of Indiana's worst passing rates on last year's statewide tests, Glenwood is all but assured its sixth straight F — leaving state officials with a decision to make before this school year is over.

Former state superintendent Tony Bennett crafted this model with the intention of including metrics beyond a simple pass - fail rate on statewide tests in a school's letter grade.

The statewide pass rate on ISTEP + went up 2.5 percent in 2013, in spite of computer glitches that halted testing for two days in the spring.

More student passed the statewide ISTEP + exam this spring than last, continuing the gains Indiana students have been making on the test for the past five years.

Addressing technology issues is a necessary thing to do before implementing a new statewide testing regime, but not sufficient for passing judgment on whether new Smarter Balanced tests are ready for full implementation spring 2015.

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.

Results support the use of oral reading fluency assessment as a valid tool for identifying students at risk of not passing the statewide reading achievement test.

Statewide, just 15 percent of African - American students and 18 percent of Hispanic students passed the math test; 16 percent of African - American students and 17 percent of Hispanic students passed the ELA exam.»

In New York City, home to the nation's largest public school system with 1.1 million pupils, just 52 percent of the students who took last year's statewide Regents test in Algebra I passed, mirroring statistics elsewhere in the country.

Saying they are responding to pressure from parents and teachers upset with the troubled roll - out of a new statewide test that students are taking this spring, Assembly Republicans will pass a bill (Senate Bill 67) next month ensuring the results aren't used on school report cards or to evaluate teachers.

Last spring, the state won a hard - fought waiver to set aside the test scores for federal accountability purposes largely because of the widely held belief that with all the new content, a huge number of students statewide will fail to pass the CAASPP.