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Houston approves new student promotion plan
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Houston schools are dropping a policy that required city high school students to pass such core courses as English and math before they moved to the next grade.
The board of the Houston Independent School District on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a new promotion policy that school officials hope will keep struggling students from getting discouraged and help cut the district's dropout rate.
More than 5,000 freshmen and sophomores who would have been held back under the old policy will now be promoted.
"The ninth grade has become a bottleneck year," Abe Saavedra, the school district's
executive deputy superintendent, told the Houston Chronicle in Friday's editions.
He said 43 percent of the district's freshmen are over age. More than one-third of 10th-graders have failed a
t l
ast one grade.
But the change does not amount to soc
ial promotion, the district's trustees said, because those students still will have to pass classes they failed before they graduate. Instead, they said, the new promotion policy offers more flexibility and avoids branding students as failures when they fail just one class.
Board members had added the core course requirement a year ago.
"I view this policy ahead of us as compassionate high standards," said district trustee Dianne Johnson.
The Houston district's educators plan to use $8.8 million in additional federal money for more tutoring, summer school and other programs aimed at helping students pass the classes they've failed, Saavedra said.
Surrounding school districts require their
ninth- and 10th-graders to pass their core classes to move on.
Board members were expected to give the proposal final approval next month.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/04/09/ho...s.ap/index.html
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HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Houston schools are dropping a policy that required city high school students to pass such core courses as English and math before they moved to the next grade.
The board of the Houston Independent School District on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a new promotion policy that school officials hope will keep struggling students from getting discouraged and help cut the district's dropout rate.
More than 5,000 freshmen and sophomores who would have been held back under the old policy will now be promoted.
"The ninth grade has become a bottleneck year," Abe Saavedra, the school district's
executive deputy superintendent, told the Houston Chronicle in Friday's editions.
He said 43 percent of the district's freshmen are over age. More than one-third of 10th-graders have failed a
t l
ast one grade.
But the change does not amount to soc
ial promotion, the district's trustees said, because those students still will have to pass classes they failed before they graduate. Instead, they said, the new promotion policy offers more flexibility and avoids branding students as failures when they fail just one class.
Board members had added the core course requirement a year ago.
"I view this policy ahead of us as compassionate high standards," said district trustee Dianne Johnson.
The Houston district's educators plan to use $8.8 million in additional federal money for more tutoring, summer school and other programs aimed at helping students pass the classes they've failed, Saavedra said.
Surrounding school districts require their
ninth- and 10th-graders to pass their core classes to move on.
Board members were expected to give the proposal final approval next month.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/04/09/ho...s.ap/index.html
MATH QUESTION ? IF JIGABOO JOE AND CREVIS STICK UP A WHITEY AND GET
$310.00 CASH HOW MANY ROCKS OF CRACK DO EACH n-gger GET ?
