Sentences with phrase «requiring students in certain grades»

No less than 81 percent of all respondents support requiring students in certain grades to pass an exam before they proceed to the next grade, and 85 percent support requiring students to pass an exam before graduating from high school.

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.

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The most controversial reform implemented under Driscoll's watch was requiring that students perform at a certain level on the state's 10th grade test in order to graduate.

New students applying to enter grades three through eight are tested, but primarily to ensure that they are prepared for the specific demands of the French program, where all classes are taught in French, or the Montessori program, which employ a system of self - guided instruction that requires a certain amount of remediation for new students unused to it, leaders said.

In 2003, Mr. Bloomberg ended the practice of «social promotion» in certain grades, requiring students performing at the lowest levels on the tests be held back unless they attended summer school and showed progress on a retesIn 2003, Mr. Bloomberg ended the practice of «social promotion» in certain grades, requiring students performing at the lowest levels on the tests be held back unless they attended summer school and showed progress on a retesin certain grades, requiring students performing at the lowest levels on the tests be held back unless they attended summer school and showed progress on a retest.