Sentences with phrase «since graduation tests»

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Since taking office in 2002, the mayor has closed 91 schools that regularly posted low test scores or graduation rates and has replaced them with smaller schools, on the premise that the more intimate environments served struggling students better.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

We have been helping students with high - stakes tests since 1998, and we offer a multitude of review products for subject area end - of - grade, end - of - course, graduation level, career readiness, and college entrance assessments.

For example, the number of jurisdictions requiring graduation tests is now the lowest since the mid-1980s, according to FairTest.

Since then, I'm proud to report that tests scores and graduation rates at neighborhood schools are increasing and the dropout rate is down.

Since it was first passed in 2011, lawmakers have made annual changes to the school grading law, which requires public schools to receive a letter grade based on metrics like test scores and graduation rates.

In New Jersey, the Newark school district has been under state control since 1995 but still registers low test scores and graduation rates.

Although the gap is closing among students completing algebra by the 10th grade, it has widened on 4th grade reading tests and in high school graduation rates since 2003.

Furthermore, a 2015 report by the Arkansas Advocates found that, since the study was released, standardized test scores improved significantly and high school graduation rates increased.

New civics test graduation requirements: The Education Commission of the States (2017) reports that since 2015, 8 states have made passing a high school civics exams modeled on the 100 - question immigration citizenship test a graduation requirement: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, North Dakota and Utah.

Despite more than $ 1.5 billion in state cuts to LAUSD since 2008, and another $ 400 million this year, Tamar is proud of increased graduation rates and higher test scores across her district.

As states tally their standardized test scores and graduation rates this summer, they are feeling the squeeze of the 2001 No Child Left Behind law, which Congress has failed to revamp since it came up for reauthorization in 2007.

Since 2007, the city has assigned each school a grade (A to F) based on its students» test scores, graduation rates, and credits earned (in high schools).