Sentence examples for school proficiency from inspiring English sources

She has passed some high school proficiency exams, but her work habits are spotty.

And last year it had an 88percentt passing rate on the state high school proficiency test, three points above average.

And when English Language learners are pulled, the charter school proficiency advantage narrows to 4 points (47 percent vs. 51percentt).

His target audience is huge: Of every 100 students who enroll in Trenton schools, Brady says, only eight emerge prepared to start college — a figure he bases on the number of dropouts plus the students who fail to pass both parts of New Jersey's high school proficiency exam.

Although passing it gives you a Certificate of High school proficiency, a legal equivalent of a high school diploma in California, it is not the same as receiving a high school diploma.

At the main campus of the Harlem Promise Academy, one of the city's top-ranked charter schools, proficiency in third-grade math dropped from 100 percent to 56 percent.

At the Harlem Promise Academy, one of New York City's more prestigious charter schools, proficiency on the third grade math tests dropped off the precipice from 100% passing to only 56%.

To help fill this void, we examine the causal impact of capital expenditures on school district proficiency rates in Michigan.

In my adopted hometown of Oakland, an African-American male is as likely to be the victim of homicide as he is to graduate from high school at proficiency levels for a California state university.

Despite student demographics that are usually associated with low performance, these schools' Academic Performance Index scores are above 800, which the state has set as the target for a school's proficiency.

Re "Schools Confronting Proficiency Demands," by Joseph Berger (On Education column, regional sections, March 23): As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I believe that the objective of the No Child Left Behind Act is laudable in its aspiration to raise the educational achievement of all students, notably those who are functioning below expected levels.