Sentences with phrase «year graduation rate rose»

At Renewal high schools, «graduation rates lagged slightly behind that of the matched schools... four - year graduation rate rose to 59 % last year, from 52 % in 2014.»

The on - time four - year graduation rate rose from 54 percent to 73 percent.

Even as the Regents raised the standards for high school graduation, the four - year graduation rate rose, to 78.1 percent last year from 71.8 percent in 2009.

The Buffalo Public Schools (BPS) received good news last year: its four - year graduation rate rose by seven percent.

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Last year, the district - wide graduation rate rose above 50 percent for the first time in several years, drop - out rates have been falling and schools days have already been extended through the Say Yes to Education program.

Graduation rates in New York City's public schools have risen 27 % during the past 5 years, Bloomberg said during his speech.

Its six - year graduation rate is 49 percent and rising while serving a challenging population.

The graduation rate, which has risen nearly 2 full percentage points from the previous year and 8 points in the past decade,...

After a shaky first year, the school's graduation rate rose to 89 percent in 2014, hit 93 percent in 2015, and is projected to reach 95 percent in 2016.

After rising for more than 100 years, reports Duncan Chaplin in our lead feature «Tassels on the Cheap,» graduation rates started to slip during the 1970s.

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.

Boston's four - year high school graduation rates have risen consistently over the past six years, reaching almost 66 percent for the Class of 2012.

It's true that our graduation rates have risen significantly in recent years, and it's almost surely the case that the students who would have dropped out a decade ago but are now sticking it out to get their diplomas are among the lowest performing kids.

As an example, some states show that in the past six years graduation rates for secondary students has dramatically risen from 68 % to 81 % [ii] due to Student Success programs, but the questions that rarely get asked are, do these numbers truly reflect a students» intellect, insight, understanding, values and citizenship, or is it that higher standards with lower expectations has equated to this phenomenon that claims that «Failure is not an option»?

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

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 graduation rate rose by more than 20 percentage points and, leaving aside the years when the state recalibrated its evaluation framework, student - achievement rates in the city improved annually (see Figure 1).

Graduation rates have risen — from 52 percent in 2010 to 66 percent in 2014 — and voters saw enough other gains to approve a tax levy in November to fund the plan for four more years.

The long period of stagnation in graduation rates between 1970 and 2000 is especially puzzling given that the financial rewards for completing high school rose sharply during these years.

The graduation rate for Olympia's low - income population rose by 7 percentage points between the 2012 and 2016 school years, for instance.

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

In their statement, school district officials noted the district's overall graduation rate, which includes the performance of the charter alternative schools, has risen in recent years.

Our high school graduation rate has risen to its highest rate in more than 30 years.

As for rising graduation rates, school reform supporters, of course, credit NCLB and Obama's initiatives, though an NRP investigation this year revealed that the current high school graduation rate of 81 percent — a historic high — «should be taken with a big grain of salt.»

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.

This will be the third year in a row that graduation rates have risen.

Though nationwide data is not yet available, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that the preliminary state numbers suggest that the country is on track for a rise in graduation rates for the third year in a row.

The district's rising six - year graduation rate provides some hope for greater success.

One of the questions posed to the panelists was whether Los Angeles Unified School District's Superintendent John Deasy's statement that «The graduation rate must rise from 55 % to 70 % in four years; the percentage of middle and high school students who test as «Proficient» in math must nearly double; and the percentage of students who pass courses required to attend state four - year universities must nearly triple...» was realistic.

In a sea of bad news, Dick Startz, writing for the Brown Center Chalkboard at Brookings, reflects on the good news in American education: Graduation rates are up Over the last fifteen years, high school graduation rates hGraduation rates are up Over the last fifteen years, high school graduation rates hgraduation rates have risen.

At the high schools it took over, four - year graduation rates decreased from 64 percent to 54 percent after the first year, rising only to 62 percent in the second year.

Across the state, the black student graduation rate rose from 61 percent in 2009 - 10 to 65 percent in the 2013 - 14 school year.

At Hancock the graduation rates have risen over 20 % and at Humanitas, graduation rates have increased from 83 % to 93.9 % in the last year.

In her three years at Tri-Creek, graduation rates have risen from 87 percent to 95 percent, the high school rating has risen from a D to an A, and suspensions and expulsions have been significantly reduced.

That increase was based partly on rising test scores and partly on the four - year graduation rates at the school, which takes into account not only current students, but also both students who attended Cohen in the past and tranferred to other schools, and those who have transferred into Cohen partway through their high - school careers.

In addition, the state started tracking five - year graduation rates, with the five - year rate for the Class of 2011 rising from 83 percent to 86 percent one year later.

Over the course of eight years, this multifaceted approach has shown encouraging results, with the graduation rate rising to reach almost 85 percent in 2013.

A $ 15 million credit recovery program started in the fall that included online classes and staff interventions was credited with raising the projected rate to 74 percent by the end of the term, topping last year's rate of 72 percent, while California graduation rates also rose to a new high of 82 percent.

The most rapid rise in graduation rates occurred from 2006 to 2014, the peak years of exit and end - of - course examinations and an era when states were increasing graduation requirements, according to NCES data.

As of 2014, the four - year graduation rates for American high school students had risen to over 82 % (NCES, 2015).

For the last decade, graduation rates across the state have risen every year, and they are now among the highest -LSB-...]

Among other headlines the organization noted were that the four - year graduation rate is on the rise in Rhode Island.