Sentences with phrase «year graduation rate increase»

Despite being ranked among the bottom ten performing schools in the state, New Haven Academy demonstrated a four year graduation rate increase from 71.4 % in 2013 to 75.4 % in 2014, a 17.3 point gain since 2009, and the highest increase of any Alliance District School.

Year - to - year graduation rates increased for most demographic subgroups in Utah in 2016.

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[KEYS] has been increasing the graduation rate and student retention by one to two percent every year — it's just outstanding.

Although Syracuse graduation rates have increased in recent years due to successful career and technical education initiatives, there's still room for improvement.

Also, while graduation rates have increased among certain groups, others are lagging behind such as English Language Learners (ELL's), whose rates dropped by 5 percent this year.

The 2018 request includes a single item — more than $ 3.63 million to fund the second year of a three - year plan to grow enrollment to 1,200 and increase four - year graduation rates.

According to a staff analysis, the second year of funding will increase the enrollment target by an additional 150 students by 2023 and the four - year graduation rate by an additional 6 percent for the 2023 entering cohort.

The state's high - school graduation rate continued to inch up in 2015, marking a slight increase for the third consecutive year.

The city has also seen an increase in high school graduation rates, two successive rent freezes and more than 350,000 jobs in the last four years.

His higher education policies have included calling for laws to limit the amount of time a student can receive state tuition assistance while in a public university, which he said would increase the rate of graduation in four years.

The graduation rate increased each year until 2011, when the rate dropped from 61 percent to 60.9 percent.

«Since mayoral control of education came in, the graduation rate in New York City has increased by 50 percent in 13 years,» de Blasio said at a news conference in Albany.

Capital Region schools, on average, saw their graduation rates increase nearly 1 percentage point to 85.4 percent last year, according to data released Friday by the State Education Department.

Its June graduation rate increased 6 percentage points from 56 to 62 percent last year.

While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher outlined a goal last year to increase graduation rates to 150,000 students annually.

«A few years in, we are close to fulfilling that commitment, budgeting to invest $ 142M by 2020 on new programming that will help increase graduation rates and make CUNY more accessible for all.»

He pointed to a five - year graduation rate that has increased from the high 50s to nearly 74 %, to the fact that there's been a doubling share of Newark's African - American students who exceed the New Jersey average on state assessments, and that Newark is now outperforming 80 % of 37 demographically similar systems in the state (after lagging behind all but a handful of them in 2010).

There was also a 16 percent increase in the graduation rate in 2016, adding to a nearly 50 percent increase over the last five years, with particularly pronounced improvements for black and Latino students.

• Among African Americans, 26 % of those in the control group attended college full - time at some point within three years of expected high school graduation; among those in the treatment group, the voucher offer increased this rate by 7 percentage points, a 25 % increment.

General educational attainment of these students rose: four - and five - year high - school graduation rates increased by 17 percent and college enrollment rates increased by 30 percent.

The relevance of including students with disabilities in assessment and accountability has been demonstrated by the increase in the number of students with disabilities in many states who took and passed the standardized tests and an increase in graduation rates in recent years.

In its 10th year of existence, Guajardo's nonprofit development organization in Texas is run entirely by college - educated locals, and the school districts which it helps are seeing significant increases in graduation rates and college matriculation.

74, the undersecretary of education, had been chancellor of the Foothill - De Anza Community College District and is an expert in two - year colleges, a focus of Obama's goal to increase college attendance and graduation rates.

For example, over the last ten years, Georgia State University has used data analytics in conjunction with college advising with the goal of increasing the graduation rate of low - income students.

More than 80 districts including Newark, Orlando, and Los Angeles, have increased their published graduation rates by at least a percentage point in recent years while sending more students to alternative programs, ProPublica has found.

Moreover, despite the increase in graduation rates, national tests are showing that test scores have been flat in recent years.

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

West Virginia has been able to increase graduation rates by 5 percent over the last two years using information from a next generation predictive analytics early warning system.

The national high school graduation rate has risen to a new all - time high: 84 percent, the fifth straight year of increases, according to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

The second report also found that the increase in graduation rates applied to every student subgroup examined, and that SSC graduation effects were sustained even after five years from the time sample members entered high school.

Because children born to teenage mothers are prone to develop problems that inhibit academic success, this trend could have contributed to both the increases in the mathematics skills of 13 - year - olds and to an increase in the high school graduation rate.

Finally, it is possible that the introduction of more difficult GED examinations in 2002, which resulted in a temporary decline in the number of 16 - to 18 - year - olds obtaining the credential, contributed to the increase in the high school graduation rate during the decade ending in 2010.

Her tenure was marked by consecutive years of enrollment growth, an increase in graduation rates, improvements in student satisfaction and teacher retention, increases in AP participation and pass rates, and the greatest growth of any urban district on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) over multiple years.

High school graduation rates have increased to an all - time high exceeding 80 percent in recent years.

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

We find that they did, with double - dosing increasing four - and five - year high - school graduation rates by 8.7 and 7.9 percentage points, respectively, a 17 percent improvement (see Figure 2).

In contrast, education levels elsewhere in the developed world continue to rise, with college graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alone.

John H. Jackson, the head of the Cambridge, Mass. - based foundation, said last month that the organization was issuing a challenge to school districts to promote a 50 percent increase in the graduation rate of black males in the next five years.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

For example, states with high - stakes high - school graduation requirements must find effective ways to intervene in high schools with high failure and / or dropout rates, even if the percentage of students passing the test increases significantly each year.

The article, by Richard Murnane and Stephen Hoffman, explores how graduation rates increased between 2000 and 2010 after 30 years of stagnation and examine some possible explanations for the trend.

But last school year, its graduation rate increased from 75 percent to 80 percent, surpassing the average state growth, which inched up from 72 percent to 73 percent.

Cook High School's graduation rate has steadily increased since the implementation of an alternative program each year since 2007.

The D.C. Public Charter School Board did not report graduation rates for individual schools, but it said that early numbers indicate an overall two - point increase from last year, to 71 percent for all charter high schools.

By 2020, the four - year graduation rate for students who start with DPS in ninth grade will increase to 90 percent.

Tanya Roane, principal at Francis L. Cardozo Education Campus, where graduation rates increased last year.

That represents an increase in the on - time graduation rate for the fifth year in a row, to 90.5 percent.

Seven of the city's 13 comprehensive, adult or alternative high schools increased their four - year graduation rates from the previous year.

When researching a program to increase Cook High School's low graduation rate and help students recover course credits, Media Director Ray Yody said they looked for an approach that could be customized and scaled based on fluctuating student needs throughout the school year.