Sentence examples for progress standard from inspiring English sources

Among large for-profit E.M.O.'s — those that manage 10 or more schools — 43 percent met the federal progress standard, compared with 62 percent of the schools run by E.M.O.'s with one to three schools.

Schools failing to meet "adequate yearly progress" standards would receive federal sanctions.

On Long Island, 45 schools, or about 7percentt, did not meet the progress standards; in Westchester, 31 schools, or 12percentt, failed.

Almost a decade later, however, it is likely that nearly 80 percent of American schools will soon fail to meet the adequate yearly progress standards.

Two of 15 schools in Greenwich — which has a sizable poor population despite its reputation as one of America's richest towns — failed to meet the adequate yearly progress standards for the 2006-7 school year.

Failure to meet the "adequate yearly progress" standards would be met by significant financial penalties to states and schools.

Roy Romer, the Los Angeles superintendent, has called the law's "adequate yearly progress" assessment standard a "bad system" and told his people to ignore its "arbitrariness".

The superintendent of the Los Angeles school system, Roy Romer, has called the law's "adequate yearly progress" assessment standard a "bad system".

For many patients with advanced cancers who progress on standard treatments, further extensive testing and treatments can have little meaningful benefit and in fact can be both intrusive and toxic.

Because it is experimental, the school is more at risk of closing if its students fail to make adequate yearly progress, the standard by which the national education law judges public schools.

It subverts all the expectations you'd have about how the film would progress: the standard denial/rejection/acceptance narrative is eschewed in favour of something far more interesting and clever.