Sentence examples for proficiency goals from inspiring English sources

Schools that do not meet their proficiency goals, which are raised every year, are labeled as failing.

Many districts, including the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), have also adopted additional tutoring programs designed to help students reach proficiency goals.

Amy Wilkins, an education policy analyst at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization in Washington that advises urban school districts, called the final bill "a piece of solid legislative work," and she said she expected that while 100percentt of some groups might not reach the proficiency goals in 12 years, there was ample room for improvement.

States must report progress toward the proficiency goals by race, ethnicity, sex and learning disability and for those with limited English, in a clear federal effort to pressure states to close gaps in achievement that have persisted despite 36 years and more than $130 billion in federal aid for poor schools.

Last year, Woodward's first-grade students were the first in school history to unanimously meet reading proficiency goals at both the first and second grade levels.

That is to say that a sixth grade student tested at fourth grade standards could count toward the state's fourth grade proficiency goals.

But even in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district, just 41percentt of fourth graders and 32percentt of eighth graders scored at or above the proficiency goal in math.

But the California state school superintendent, Jack O'Connell, said he also bet that Congress might change the law in 2007, perhaps by removing its 100percentt proficiency goal.

Instruction is in the target language with an expected proficiency goal of Novice Mid at the end of the semester.

In contrast, the federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal -- for North Carolina, 68percentt of students reading on grade level this year -- and requires all schools to make that number.

Instead of relying on an all-or-nothing pass/fail rating for a school, they distinguished among schools that met the proficiency goal (fully accredited); schools making good progress (provisional accreditation); schools falling behind (needs improvement) and schools in crisis (warning accreditation).