Sentences with phrase «third graduation class»

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High - school transcripts, which the schools used to hold on to and sometimes alter to boost graduation rates, are being centralized and scrubbed (the audit found that one - third of students weren't taking the classes they need to graduate).

And, for a half century, nearly one - third of the nation's high - school students have failed to graduate with their class each year, while graduation rates for black and Hispanic students are even lower.

D.C. public schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses system wide.

- Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education In 2013, the national high school graduation rate hit a record high of 81.4 percent, and for the third year in a row, the nation remained on pace to meet the 90 percent goal by the Class of 2020.

Under her successor, Kaya Henderson (2010 - 2016), raising graduation rates became the Holy Grail, and we now know what transpired: hundreds of seniors — one third of the graduating class — were given diplomas even though they had been skipping school regularly or had otherwise not followed the rules.

Mrs. Tucker and former kindergarten and first grade lead teacher have kept in touch with the first third grade graduating class of Eagle Academy since graduation in 2011.

- Arne Duncan, U.S. Department of Education In 2013, the national high school graduation rate hit a record high of 81.4 percent, and for the third year in a row, the nation remained on pace to meet the 90 percent goal by the Class of 2020.

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