The department judges them by student test scores and school progress report grades.
The test is used primarily to measure school progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law.
P.S. 257, also known as the John F. Hylan School, received an A on its last school progress report.
It is frustrating how the focus is increasingly the school, progress measures and nothing getting in the way of success.
The city's performance bonuses, teacher evaluations, school progress reports and decisions on closings are all increasingly tied to student performance.
Q You got an F on your school progress report, after earning an A in 2009 and a C in 2010.
First there was No Child Left Behind, which took effect in 2003 and required states to give all students standardized tests to measure school progress.
When the band isn't rehearsing, Mr. Brown books performances, checks on band members' school progress and dreams up ways for people to notice it.
But because school closings are not based on school progress reports alone — politics, community support and alumni connections all matter — even failing schools may be given time to turn around, often with a new principal in charge.
Because schools are now judged on graduation rates, every student who does not clock enough days is assessed as a non-graduate, which is taken into account in school progress reports and other school assessments.
