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Proponents, however, say credit recovery is a miracle cure for high school coursework, the way for a student to complete an entire class in just a week.

And while it's an open secret in many districts, critics say credit recovery allows young people to cheat themselves out of an education while boosting a school district's graduation rate.

Superintendent Angela Nagle said credit recovery is used sparingly in the district and it is just one small part of a student's academic year.

Not exact matches

In its October review, the agency said the NPLs — comprising corporate, interbank and private loans — and the banking sector's «exceptionally weak asset quality [are] a key weakness for Cyprus's credit profile and [represent a] material downside risk to the recovery.»

Officials defended their decision by saying that making mortgage credit available to U.S. home buyers was crucial to the housing market's recovery.

«The downgrade reflects our expectations for limited recovery of credit metrics given continued operating losses at the Canadian division as well as potential costs related to the data breach,» said S&P's credit analyst Ana Lai.

In a second interview, he again appeared to take sole credit for the turnaround, saying: «Economic recovery would not have happened without us stepping up to the plate and creating this stable government.»

Superintendent Kriner Cash said he's concerned about unusually high gains for the Class of 2015 — particularly among students who earned their diploma after taking summer credit - recovery classes.

He told ITV News, George Osborne's plan is not working: «He's choked off the recovery, borrowing's up, families are suffering and even the credit agencies are now saying it's failed».

DiNapoli, who was fielding questions on John Catsimatidis 970 AM radio show, said lapses in the Empire State Development Corp. and its Excelsior jobs program, which issues tax credits, are becoming more apparent as the economic recovery falters.

Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat spokesman at the Treasury, said: «It is vital to the coalition agreement that all the banks agree to a target for net lending to SMEs this year as providing credit to these companies is critical for economic recovery.

Farron also said it was right for the Lib Dems to remain in the coalition because they needed to take some credit for the economic recovery.

«Chancellor Fariña has taken an important step to deal with the credit - recovery problems caused by the Bloomberg administration and continued by his appointees — a scandal that school «reformers» chose to ignore when Bloomberg was in charge of the system,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

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Martel, the long - time social studies teacher, says credit - recovery classes ran 82 hours per quarter at his school compared to 125 hours for classes held during the school day, and that teachers were told not to give homework.

State Education Commissioner John King said students can't learn a whole class in a week and he has heard allegations that some schools are inflating graduation rates with credit recovery.

That's exactly the problem with online credit recovery programs; the speed with which they offer credit, said Liz Pape, president of the Virtual High School Global Consortium, which promotes effective online learning and course design.

«The challenge is to make sure we have good measures of student competence as part of the credit recovery system,» he said.

In their own news releases, school officials talk about how Operation Graduation, which includes a credit recovery component, boosts the district's graduation rate and quotes one former student, Victor Lopez, as saying: «It was a shocker to learn what I could get done in a day.»

Next year, Regents Chancellor Tisch said, the state Education Department will require schools to break out the number of students using credit recovery when they report graduation rates.

She said she is concerned that some schools are abusing credit recovery.

The education news site GothamSchools (now Chalkbeat New York) reported on a guidance counselor at New York's A. Philip Randolph High School, for example, who said she was instructed to enroll dozens of failing students in credit - recovery classes solely so they could earn their diplomas.

Leaders of schools that rely heavily on online credit recovery say they try to purchase courses that can be easily broken apart, so teachers can reorder the lessons or pull out specific sections to meet individual students» needs.

In a recent editorial, the Los Angeles Times called into question the district's record - high 75 percent graduation rate, as it said that the figure was based in part on LA Unified's dependence on its less - than - rigorous online credit - recovery courses.

The majority of credit recovery is not done online, said Carol Alexander, the district's director of A-G intervention and support.

Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe said the company began in 1999 by providing online advanced placement programs, but in 2005 it started providing online credit recovery programs, which have «really just taken off from there.»

Initiatives such as identifying students at risk for dropping out early and providing the necessary academic and social / emotional supports; the expansion of alternative and flexible pathways to graduation, such as on - line credit recovery courses, have proven to be effective in reaching more students and keeping them in school, Warwick said.

Let's say it turns out that this «all hands on deck» approach that really probably the true rate was more like 70 percent than 75 percent if you don't accept these credit recovery courses.

Both Driver and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers say this time will afford MPS students options for credit recovery, and help boost the district's four - year graduation rate.

The district said last year that 42 percent of its 2016 graduates had taken some kind of credit recovery, whether it was an online course or re-taking a class.

«A credit recovery program should be about enrichment and acceleration,» Santelises says.

The MTDA works with schools to identify the additional resources students need to be successful in the online credit recovery program, the study said.

«Students taking one Montana Digital Academy online credit recovery course per semester had lower passing rates than those taking multiple courses in a semester,» the study said.

* A previous version of this story said San Diego Unified was not undertaking a large credit recovery program.

LAUSD Salvages Summer School, but Classes Will Be Limited Despite fears that Los Angeles Unified would have to cancel summer school this year, officials say they'll be able to hold a limited number of credit - recovery classes at 16 high school campuses across the sprawling district.

«What it will provide for our students is the opportunity for credit recovery, for service learning programming, for internships,» Driver said during a press conference earlier this year.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

Gregg Levin, vice president of Aventa Learning, which supplies credit - recovery classes to 31 cities, said the company's revenues have grown more than eightfold in the last two school years.

The district has yet to disclose how many seniors graduated due to at least one online credit recovery course, but some are saying the way the record was achieved is questionable.

Only board member Monica Ratliff raised any questions, saying, «Are these credit recovery courses really rigorous A through G courses?

According to the report, the National Center for Education Statistics said 88 percent of school districts around the country offered some form of credit recovery courses to their students in school year 2009 - 10, and, «as online and blended learning have grown significantly in the last five years, it is likely those numbers are significantly higher now.»

Last year, LA Unified's Chief Academic Officer Frances Gipson said that California's public universities had approved the online credit recovery courses provided by Edgenuity and others as acceptable for admission.

Within a month, the district said that number had jumped to 63 percent and was expected to climb to 80 percent, in large part because of its new $ 15 million credit recovery program.

«Online credit recovery options allow schools to serve students throughout the year, across a range of subjects, and with few additional resources,» said Sarah Frazelle, coauthor of the study.

Gipson also said the district had worked with California universities and colleges to make sure the online credit recovery programs are approved by them.

Petrilli said the growing use of credit recovery by school districts is alarming and may be responsible for the record high national graduation rate that was achieved for the 2013 - 14 school year.

The report also said the number of district - initiated online learning programs is unknown and «there is no coherent definition emerging among states that cite credit recovery programs in statutes or administrative code.»

While district officials and some board members are saluting the credit recovery program, some academic scholars and institutions are skeptical of online credit recovery programs, saying they are an easy way to boost graduation rates without boosting student learning.

«The feedback from Village Green has challenged us; they are very data - driven,» said Deborah Rayow, Edgenuity's vice president for core curriculum and credit recovery.

I have heard many students say, «I don't care if I fail, I'll do credit recovery.»