Sentences with phrase «school proficiency test»

When blacks can not pass a high school proficiency test as a condition of obtaining a diploma, let us throw out the test.

One only needs to review the contents of school proficiency tests to realize that education administrators have become more interested in teaching children «what» to think than «how» to think.

Joe Clark, the outspoken principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, N.J., has claimed that someone «out to embarrass him» paid a student to pilfer a copy of New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test from the school.

State requires that 75 percent of 9th graders in each school pass the High School Proficiency Test... Test scores for all four regular high schools are considerably below the state requirement.

Known generally as exit exams, students must pass minimum - competency exams like New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) to graduate from high school.

Back then, in 1995, Newark schools ranked second among 30 special - needs districts in teacher pay, and second to last in the percentage of 11th graders passing the high - school proficiency test.

U.S. News started by looking at reading and math results for all students on each state's high school proficiency tests.

Cerf said the state is considering options that would allow students who take standardized tests used to get into colleges — such as the SAT or the ACT — to substitute them for the high school proficiency test.

Cerf also said the state could eliminate the high school proficiency test and just require students to take tests based on individual subjects, such as New York's regents exams.

In the state's administration of high - school proficiency tests this year in English, Central High School's passing rate rose to 69 % from 37 %.