Article: U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION SPELLINGS ANNOUNCES GUIDANCE TO ASSIST IN ESTABLISHING UNIFORM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE

Article: REP. CASTLE WELCOMES UNIFORM GRADUATION RATE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 1, 2008 ;     651 words ... ... s (NGA) recommended graduation rate as a model for the Department ... Implementing a standard four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate; * Improve state data ... each state to set their graduation rate. In Delaware, the graduation ...

Article: Governors devise graduation rate plan.(Update: ...
District Administration;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Education Ray Simon hail the new Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate, which should make high schools more accountable ... Recommendations. * Begin a standard, four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate by dividing the number of on-time graduates ...

Article: Graduation Rate Rises Again To New High
The Culvert Chronicles;  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... York City's four-year high school graduation rate continues to push upward, as it has ... with previous years, the City's graduation rate has risen 5.7 percentage points ... Vice President Peter McNally. "The graduation rate is a crucial indicator of whether ...

Article: County's high school graduation rate tops 90%
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  September 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... s Class of 2006 had the highest graduation rate - 98.4 percent - among the county ... As a whole, the county average graduation rate for 2006 was 91.1 percent - up from ... the prior academic year. The state graduation rate for 2006 was not available. The 2005 ...

Article: VIRGINIA SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ISSUES MEMO ON USE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Public Instruction SUBJECT: Use of Graduation Rate for AYP Safe Harbor Calculations This ... remind school divisions that the NCLB Graduation Rate will be used as the "other academic ... approved to use the prior year's NCLB graduation rate with assessment data from the current ...

Article: U. Oregon athletes' graduation rate not up to par
University Wire;  February 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... November 2006, represents the 1999-2000 graduation rate. The graduation rate is "based on a comparison of the number ... System. That places the student-athlete graduation rate 16 percent below the student body average ...

Article: GRADUATION RATE: 81 PERCENT OF CLASS OF 2007 ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... freshmen, according to statewide graduation rate data released to the Board of Education ... required to make or surpass a target graduation rate of 55 percent to make AYP. The Board ... required to meet or surpass a four-year graduation rate of 60 percent, a five-year ...