Sentence examples for targets for students from inspiring English sources

Senate Democrats want to require states to put in place rigorous standards and set performance targets for students.

Arguably the best-known example is the federal education program known as No Child Left Behind that was enacted in 2001; it links government aid to highly specific performance targets for students based upon standardized test scores.

Last year, some 52 universities failed to meet their targets for student recruitment as set by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the primary government funding agency for higher education.

But it leaves decisions on how to use the scores up to states and local districts and does not require them to set targets for student achievement or consequences for schools that fail.

Under Mr. Kline's bill, states and districts are free to develop their own accountability systems, as well as curriculum standards, with no federal mandates on targets for student achievement.

Education department officials announced plans late last month to invite principals to create new enrollment targets for student subgroups to spur diversity.

Programs at certain for-profit colleges and other vocational college programs that do not meet targets for student loan repayment or debt levels would be restricted from receiving federal student aid or forced to disclose debt levels to prospective students.

States could avoid No Child Left Behind's onerous annual targets for student performance if they agreed to implement components of the administration's education agenda, such as evaluating teachers in part based on their students' test scores.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) released his draft of the Elementary and Secondary Achievement Act -- known as "No Child Left Behind" -- on Tuesday, defending its much-criticized rollback of federally mandated targets for student performance as a product of compromise.

The target for students finishing high school is also on track to be met, and the as a result the number of Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander people enrolling in higher education courses has shot up by 70%.

The governor's budget is seeking $6 billion more for K-12 schools and community colleges over his January budget, with a third of that targeted for students who are low-income, learning English or in foster care.