But she also wants to get on with recruiting better math teachers and designing personalized 12-week courses for students who did not pass the achievement test.
The number of low-performing charter schools -- where fewer than 50percentt of the students pass basic achievement tests -- has tripled in three years, a state survey shows.
They also offer sites where parents can discover how and what their children are learning or what children need to know to pass state achievement or proficiency tests.
In Coshocton, Ohio, Superintendent David Hire said he saw "significant improvement" over the past four years as the schools gave students who passed state achievement tests "Coshocton bucks," gift certificates that can be redeemed at local stores.
Sosa, who has appeared in every All-Star Game since 1998, was not given a free pass for lifetime achievement.
In his new budget, Gov. John Engler of Michigan is dipping into the state's tobacco settlement money for $83 million to give $2,500 college scholarships to students who pass a state achievement test.
It would be almost suicidal to try to deny the teachers a significant wage hike at a time when higher-paying suburban schools are competing for staff and city students are being required to pass increasingly difficult achievement tests.
In Japan, students must pass the Common Achievement Test, which includes an objective structured clinical examination, before starting their clinical education.
Even so, his long solo dance was an extraordinary achievement, passing through many engrossing features of arm gesture, footwork, head movement, hand vibrations, always with some true sense of repose and at the same time with a gripping purposefulness from first to last.
