The district's rising six -
year graduation rate provides some hope for greater success.
Not exact matches
This policy brief extends the analysis by a
year, adding information on high school
graduation rates for the 2006 cohort and
providing a fifth
year of follow - up for the 2005 cohort.
A six -
year partnership starting with credit recovery expanded to
provide a complete online solution serving more student needs, contributing to the highest
graduation rate in 10
years.
For fifty
years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school
graduation rates,
provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.
For example, schools will have to show that there's «clear and rigorous process for
providing interventions and supports for low - achieving students in those schools» when one or more at - risk group is missing achievement goals or
graduation rate targets over a number of
years.
Because not all states have the systems in place to report accurate
graduation rates, four -
year cohort estimates
provide an excellent approximation of the percent of students who graduate on time with a standard diploma.
The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to use four -
year graduation rates as part of measuring each high school's Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and
provides guidelines for how to calculate the
rates.
Data
provided by the New York State Department of Education and the Rochester School District Wednesday indicate that some discrepancies critics have pounced on were due to one agency reporting a four -
year graduation rate as of June and the other reporting it as of August, as well as an increase in the passing bar for state tests.
The accountability system also
provides a public record of how each public school is performing —
graduation rates, standardized test scores, teacher quality and school safety are all measured and reported each
year.
While the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to drive toward higher and higher
graduation rates, district data
provided to The 74 and LA School Report show that more than half of last
year's graduating seniors received grades that made them ineligible for admission into California's public universities.
For fifty
years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school
graduation rates,
provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based...