Sentences with phrase «proficiency rate calculation»

Participation rate will impact proficiency rate calculation.

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A low participation rate will also affect a school's academic proficiency calculation.

A school can lose points on the state report cards (a 5 - point deduction) if its test participation falls below 95 percent; however, a individual student who opts out of taking a required assessment is not counted in the calculation (i.e., is left out of the calculation) of proficiency rates for his or her school or district.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.