Sentence examples for proficiency standards from inspiring English sources

The second set of data released by the state was a listing of the percentage of students who met or exceeded proficiency standards on this year's standardized English and Math tests in grades 3 through 8.

The administration also will give money to states like Massachusetts that have rigorous proficiency standards.

The bill provides for stringent sanctions against schools that don't meet proficiency standards.

Neither did high school students who performed below basic proficiency standards before high school.

Thirty-one percent of third graders met state proficiency standards in English, 38 percent in math.

States have watered down their proficiency standards so parents think their own schools are much better than they are.

As for the 100percentt proficiency standard?

To toss out the proficiency standard set by Florida's graduation exam is to throw away real accountability.

Or take something as seemingly straightforward as the "proficiency" standard set by the No Child Left Behind legislation.

Connecticut measures achievement using a "proficiency" standard under the federal No Child Left Behind law and a higher state standard called the "goal and advanced" level.

Of those that remain open, only one, a school on Staten Island, had more than a third of its students meet the state's proficiency standard in English last spring.