«Yet
significant graduation rate gaps remain among various student subgroups and progress must accelerate over the next five years if the 90 percent goal is to be met equitably.»
Not exact matches
As Anne Hyslop reported, the newly announced waiver guidelines now ask states for «a demonstration that a school may not receive the highest
rating in the state's accountability system if there are
significant achievement or
graduation rate gaps in the school that are not closing.»
With respect to subgroups, goals must account for the level of improvement necessary to make
significant progress in closing statewide
gaps in proficiency and
graduation rates.
IDRA's analysis of STAAR student group performance
rates, college readiness outputs,
graduation rates and dropout
rates reflect
significant gaps between economically disadvantaged and non - economically disadvantaged students and between EL and non-EL students, in spite of some success individual economically disadvantaged and EL students are experiencing in classroom across Texas.