Sentences with phrase «with graduation rates between»

Directly south of San Francisco lays a cluster of districts with graduation rates between 90 and 95 percent.

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Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

Connecticut's graduation rates are in line with the rest of the nation, but there are huge gaps between rich and poor districts.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

This week's brief includes new research from a February 2018 study that found «that the implementation of DACA significantly improved attendance and graduation rates among Hispanic high school students, with the gap in high school completion between undocumented Hispanic young people and their citizen peers shrinking by 40 percent.

36 • Texas Lone Star • May 2018 • texaslonestaronline.org Anew study from Texas A&M Univer - sity has shown a causal link between grade retention and graduation rates, with students retained in elementary school being almost hree times as likely as their promoted counterparts to drop out before graduation.

Republicans also criticized Evers for the state's longstanding gap in academic achievement between black and white students, for his department's plan to comply with a new federal education accountability law and for a DPI software error that resulted in DPI unable to verify four - year graduation rates for 2016.

At the same time, there are still citizens — especially dual - income households without children who tend to populate cities, as well as those concerned with other issues — for which education policy doesn't weigh in as a deciding factor largely because they see little concrete connection between low graduation rates and the levels of crime in their communities.

The gap between the skills with which students graduate from high school and what colleges expect them to be able to do has come under increased scrutiny, as federal policymakers push states to increase college graduation rates.

States differ in the amount budgeted for education, often with little to no apparent correlation between number of dollars spent and graduation rates or scores on achievement tests.

Hear this interview with Chalkboard's Dan Jamison on the connection between high absenteeism in schools and low graduation rates.

Those conversations, he explains, led to a tightly coordinated effort between the district, the United Way of Greenville County, and other community partners to tackle poor attendance, raise academic achievement, and boost graduation rates in the White Horse Road community, a section of the county with the highest concentrations of poverty.

Our graduation rate is consistently among the highest in DC, and our students demonstrate their high level of college preparation with an exceptionally high pass rate on Advanced Placement exams — more than 75 % received scores between 3 and 5 (all passing, with 5 as the top score).

Kansas has one of the nation's smallest graduation rate gaps between students with disabilities and students without disabilities.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.

The biggest gaps in graduation rates in the district exist between African - American and white students, with 59 percent of black students graduating in four years compared to 90 percent of their white peers.

Students with a disability or with limited English proficiency had graduation rates below 80 percent, while the graduation rates of economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic and American Indian students ranged between 82 and 83 percent.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.