Sentences with phrase «unacceptable rates over»

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In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.

«It is unacceptable to have the gap in reading proficiency rates between low - income and high - income children increase by nearly 20 percent over the last decade.