Sentences with phrase «percent last academic year»

If that hypothetical student borrowed using a federal direct loan for graduate school, which had a rate of 5.84 percent last academic year, she would have accrued $ 1,682 in interest during the grace period.

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NSF, primary supporter of academic basic research in most non-biomedical fields, is also a winner, with 4.8 percent more to spend this year than it had in FY 1994, aided by a significant increase in last year's appropriations cycle.

Last year, the California charter school community supported new legislation, Assembly Bill 1137, that gave charter schools new flexibilities, but would shut down charter schools that did not score within the top 60 percent of all similar public schools on the state's Academic Performance Index.

Frances Gipson, LA Unified's chief academic officer, said a number of actions have been taken to get extra help and resources to the students who are failing a course, and the district is still hopeful that last year's record graduation rate of 77 percent will be surpassed.

On a whole Denver elementary students showed impressive improvement last year: the percent of students meeting or exceeding grade level expectations increased 4.7 points in English Language Arts and 2.3 points in math; on average elementary students scored better than 56 % of their academic peers across the state in ELA and better than 54 % of their peers in math.

Tenth - graders made across - the - board improvements on the MCAS last academic year, and 84 percent of students have already met the state's minimum testing requirements needed to earn a high school diploma on their first try.

In a Pre / K Question and Answer session at a professional development session last month, 70 percent of the Pre / K teachers raised their hands when asked if they had students whose parents were in prison for part of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

A report released by the National Center for Education Statistics last year (NCES) estimated that as of the 2010 - 11 academic year (most recent data) 96 percent of public two - year community colleges offered some form of college credit to high school students through a dual - enrollment program.

After LA Unified skyrocketed from a projected 49 percent graduation rate last fall to a record - setting 75 percent for the 2015 - 16 school year, academic experts, California public universities, editorial boards and even the school board president are all asking hard questions about one major aspect of the turnaround — online credit recovery.

D.C. charter school enrollment continues its steady growth, increasing 9 percent over last year, according to an unaudited count for the 2009 - 10 academic year, officials announced this week.

Fifty percent more L.A. Unified students in grades nine through 12 signed up for Advanced Placement courses in the last academic year than the number who did six years before, Superintendent John Deasy said in a press release Wednesday.