Sentences with phrase «posting low test scores»

Since taking office in 2002, the mayor has closed 91 schools that regularly posted low test scores or graduation rates and has replaced them with smaller schools, on the premise that the more intimate environments served struggling students better.

The less affluent one spends more on its schools but posts low test scores on the state assessment.

Though not as keen on outright takeovers as her predecessor, Glenda Ritz now employs 13 «outreach coordinators» to work with schools that have posted low test scores.

While the school continued to post low test scores, Rizga found that Mission was making significant gains in other areas: rising college acceptance rates, decreasing dropout rates and improvement in students» critical thinking and other high - level skills.

Not exact matches

Dan Levitan, spokesperson for de Blasio's campaign, responded with the same statement he gave to The Post: «Under Mayor de Blasio, Crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the City is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

The NY Post, another subsidiary of News Corp, recently provoked controversy by publishing teacher data reports based on student test scores in its paper, and running inflammatory articles about teachers who received low scores.

It could also improve the quality of teachers in Mississippi, and the academic performance of students in a state that consistently posts some of the lowest test scores in the nation.

The weak math performance echoed the results of a second national exam, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), on which 4th and 8th graders also posted lower math scores on the 2015 test.

Mississippi has consistently posted some of the lowest scores on standardized tests in the nation.

This post first appeared on Idaho Education News By Anthony Warn We in Idaho hear a lot about low test scores, go - on rates that are in reverse, debates about school funding formulas, and too many students unprepared for college and career.

And I've walked into lower - income schools around the country where test scores are posted right in the front entryway and the message is very clear: That we care about you as a person and everything, but what really matters is the score that you post in April.

But in the newly released test scores, English learners in LA Unified posted no growth at all for the second year in a row, and Latino students had one of the lowest growth rates among all other ethnic groups.

Among recent phones we've tested, only the $ 360 Cat S40 posted a lower score (1,019), though that's a phone built for durability rather than performance.