Sentence examples for regular diploma from inspiring English sources

"I want a regular diploma," he said.

An additional 5% eventually receive a regular diploma through a variety of job training and adult education programs.

Twenty percent of students with disabilities drop out, and only 67 percent graduate with a regular diploma.

While graduation rates have risen over all, for example, the rates for special education students have remained stubbornly low — fewer than 25 percent received a regular diploma last year, compared with more than double that for traditional students.

Hispanics who reach the ninth grade are more likely than blacks to graduate with a regular diploma (55 percent compared with 51 percent) and Hispanic men are less likely than black men to be imprisoned at some point in their lives (one in six, compared with one in three).

ChalleNGe appears to have reduced high school diploma receipt (p < .05) among the subgroup of younger sample members; some of them probably obtained a GED through the program when they otherwise would have obtained a regular diploma.

Francis Lewis High School was the largest job this year, placing an order for 2,500 regular diplomas and 500 special-education diplomas.

In the 2002-3 school year, for instance, the percentage of special education students receiving regular diplomas was 12.8percentt in New York City, 26percentt in New York State and 31percentt nationally.

So when administrators at Matthew's Louisiana high school suggested last year that he forgo getting a regular high school diploma and start working on a watered-down alternative diploma, Julie Comeaux was appalled.

Education officials said the closing of the sites was part of a broader reorganization of alternative programs aimed at increasing the number of students who earn either a regular high school diploma or an equivalency degree, known as a G.E.D.

Re "Rich Disabled Pupils Go to Private Schools at Public Expense, Levy Says" (news article, April 17): Outcomes for students receiving special education in New York City's public schools are poor: such students are almost four times more likely to drop out than to receive a regular high school diploma.