Sentence examples for schools to count from inspiring English sources

In 2009, the state implemented the Texas Projection Measure, a formula that critics said allowed schools to count students as passing who did not.

The education agency first indicated that it was considering discontinuing the projection measure last summer, after lawmakers and others in the education community said that the measure artificially raised ratings and allowed schools to count students as passing tests when they had not.

He says he has been in and out of too many schools to count and left the educational system for good when he was 15. "No one has ever given me a chance; I am just angry at how the whole system works," Mr. James said.

--Texas allows schools to count students as "leavers" rather than dropouts if they say they're moving elsewhere or doing home-schooling, without checking into whether those assertions are true.

And in a particularly baldfaced unsupportable move, HB 7069 says that if Chris does a lousy job as a student at Gotrox Charter Academy, then goes back to public school, the public school has to count all of Chris's failure in their public school grade.

That was when five members of the local election commission — all teachers and administrators at the school — began to count the ballots cast that day in the country's parliamentary elections.

In New York, new regulations allow school districts to count state standardized exams for up to 40percentt of teacher reviews.

Members of Congress stepped in to block the administration from limiting the amount of potatoes children could be served and to allow schools to continue to count tomato paste on a pizza as a serving of vegetables.

The report also recommends that schools be allowed to count slots, rather than actual students on teams, to gauge opportunities for women, and that walk-ons should not be counted under a key test of Title IX compliance known as proportionality.

Russell Rumberger, director of the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara, is not a fan of measuring a school's success by its graduation rate for precisely that reason: Doing so encourages schools to lower their standards or to use misleading numbers or to find ways to get failing students out of their schools without having to count them as dropouts.

He uses them, high school teacher style, to count each of the five points of his economic plan.