Students who fail the benchmark tests in third and fifth grade can be left back, though as a matter of course they rarely are.
The company peridodically failed healthcare benchmarks for asylum seekers set by the immigration department, causing the company to face financial penalties.
It should be given powers to impose financial penalties if institutions fail to reach benchmarks on widening participation, he says.
Separate documents also reveal that the company expected it would fail key performance benchmarks in its care of asylum seekers.
Other students consistently fail to complete benchmarks on time, and accrue late penalties.
If they fail to meet the benchmarks Congress sets, they might be deprived of non-military aid.
Test results have become increasingly important because schools that repeatedly fail to meet federal benchmarks face discipline, including limits on how they can spend federal money and steps they must take to improve student performance.
Under the new rules, programs would lose their eligibility to dispense federal student aid — and as a practical matter, be shut down — if, over the next four years, their graduates fail to meet new benchmarks for loan repayment and ratio of debt to income.
China plans to tighten rules on foreign adoptions, barring people who are single, obese, older than 50 or who fail to meet certain benchmarks in financial, physical or psychological health from adopting Chinese children, according to adoption agencies in the United States.
Free tutoring -- known as the supplemental educational services program -- is required under the federal law, which compels schools that fail to meet federal benchmarks and that serve mostly poor children to give families the option of a new school, or tutoring by a private company.
Put it another way, when we run the universe of 7,800 managers that account for 99.6% of fund assets, we can confirm that [indexing proponent John] Bogle is right in his assumption that about 80% of active managers fail to beat their benchmarks.
