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The graduation rate for Georgia students involved in Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) has risen to 97.18 percent in Georgia. This rate – which applies to students who complete a Career Pathway – exceeds the overall state graduation rate by 13.38 percentage points, underscoring...
The percentage of Maryland students receiving a high school diploma in four years remains consistently high, according to data released by the Maryland State Department of Education. The four-year graduation rate was 86.8% in 2020, according to the data. This is four points better than the 82.8% rate registered a decade ago in 2011, and...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland’s high school graduation and dropout rates remained nearly unchanged in 2020, according to the latest data from the state’s education department. The department said Tuesday the 2020 graduation rate sat at 86.8% compared to 86.9% in 2019 and up four points from 2011. The dropout rate was at 8.3%. Rates...
By ANDY TSUBASA FIELD, Associated Press/Report for America TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas lawmaker and the state's Republican attorney general are pushing a bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate in and effort to increase civic engagement. The proposal is facing pushback from members of the state's largest...
BOSTON, JAN. 26, 2021 (STATEHOUSE NEWS SERVICE) – Approximately 5,600 Massachusetts high school seniors who have not passed the high school math or English standardized tests required to graduate will instead be able to meet the requirement by earning full credit in a relevant course. The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Tuesday approved...
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DENVER (CBS4) – The Colorado Department of Education says the state’s high school graduation rate is getting better. It increased slightly to nearly 82% last spring, and has been steadily rising since 2010. Additionally, students of color graduating in four years for 2019-20 jumped to 77.1%, a 1.6% increase from the previous year. Black students saw...
The percentage of high school students attending D.C. schools who graduated in the 2019-2020 school year rose over the year before, according to newly released data from the city. The city said 70.9% of D.C. high school students graduated in four years compared to 68.2% during the 2018-2019 school year. The Office of the State...
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The 2020 4-year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rates were released today by the Georgia Department of Education. The Walker County School System continues to see a positive increase in the graduation rates at LaFayette and Ridgeland High Schools. Walker County Schools also continues to perform above...
By JEFF AMY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia is again hitting a new peak in high school graduation rates. The state Department of Education said Tuesday that 83.8% of seniors graduated on time in the spring. That’s the highest level recorded since Georgia began calculating according to current methods, which require a student to...
Floyd County Schools’ (FCS) four-year graduation rate for the Class of 2020 of 94.6% ranks FCS as one of the top 35 school systems in the state, according to data released today by the Georgia Department of Education. This rate also exceeds the State’s four-year...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom late Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have made ethnic studies a California high school graduation requirement, citing controversy over the model curriculum. Assemblyman Jose Medina, a fellow Democrat, criticized the veto of his bill as “a failure to push back against the racial rhetoric and bullying of Donald Trump.”...
Tennessee’s graduation rate among public school students has declined for the first time since 2015, according to data on the Tennessee Department of Education’s website. A total of just 89.6 percent of the state’s high school students graduated in 2020, the TDOE’s website reported. The TDOE website reported...
CHICAGO — Chicago students graduated from high school at a record rate last spring amid the pandemic’s intense disruption to learning. City officials said at a Friday press conference that 82.5% of students graduated in five years last spring, an increase of 2 percentage points over last year. The district calculated rates using a new...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted to make a course on ethnic studies a new graduation requirement for all Los Angeles Unified School District high school students by the 2023-2024 school year.The district also voted to expand the existing ethnic studies curriculum, and to ensure instructional materials in all...
This is the amazing moment a high school graduate seized an opportunity and took his graduation photos while wakeboarding. Andrew Shaffer, 17, had the opportunity to wakeboard while at Lake Powell, Utah. Amazing footage shows Andrew balancing on the wakeboard, holding the rope with one hand.
A Black teenage says he had to take off his Black Lives Matter mask during his high school graduation ceremony in York, Pennsylvania last month. Dean Holmes told CBS News that he wore it because Black lives are "at risk right now." Holmes, 18, was pulled off the York Catholic High School graduation procession line by...
Dean Holmes was 'pulled from the graduation procession line' for York Catholic High School's commencement on August 1 because he was wearing the mask A black high school student from Pennsylvania was forced to remove his Black Lives Matter face mask in order to graduate, according to the teen's family. Dean Holmes had been...
(CNN)A Black student was forced to take off his Black Lives Matter face mask in order to graduate, his family says. Dean Holmes, a student at York Catholic High School in York, Pennsylvania, put on a Black Lives Matter mask under his face shield at his July 28 graduation ceremony. As students lined up before...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's public high school graduation rate has dropped, only a year after state leaders celebrated the state reaching a milestone. The Advocate reports the senior class of 2019 had a graduation rate of 80.1%, down from 81.4% a year earlier, according to the state Department of Education. But in a...
WHITMAN (CBS) — Whitman-Hanson Regional High School has canceled its in-person graduation ceremony because of a possible coronavirus exposure. The school said it did not want to risk getting anyone sick at the outdoor event that was scheduled for Friday evening. “Early this morning we learned that some members of the Whitman-Hanson Regional School District...
(CNN)Nearly 300 Florida high school graduates and their families have been told to quarantine after an attendee at their graduation ceremony was diagnosed with the coronavirus. Bayside High School in Palm Bay, Florida, held an outdoor graduation ceremony for seniors last Saturday, an event that appeared to mostly adhere to coronavirus safety guidelines. However, someone...
Twins Xanah and Xarah Sproul recently celebrated their high school graduation. As the novel coronavirus pandemic upends just about every aspect of education, graduation ceremonies and traditions have changed, too. To celebrate a monumental time in young peoples’ lives, many families are putting signs, posters, or other decorations outside of their homes to show off the graduate...
COVID-19 has robbed high school seniors of major milestones that make up their senior year and Candy Manning wanted to do something about it. Step inside Hakim's Bookstore, Philly's first and oldest African-American bookstore She has a Photography business, Candids by Candy, in addition to her job as a fulltime teacher and real estate...
QUINCY (CBS) – A parent who attended the Quincy High School graduation on Saturday has since tested positive for coronavirus, the school told parents in a letter a day after the ceremony. Interim Superintendent of Schools Kevin Mulvey said he was notified of the positive test Sunday morning. Mulvey said everyone in attendance was required...
OAKLAND (KDKA) — Some students are already thinking about going back to school, but others are still finally celebrating their accomplishments of the past academic year. Yesterday, seniors at City Charter High School, also known as City High, had their long-awaited commencement ceremony. The students were even able to walk across the stage at...
FALMOUTH (CBS) – Falmouth High School has canceled its in-person graduation ceremonies set for Saturday after some seniors were potentially exposed to coronavirus. The school said the decision was made out of an abundance of caution. Superintendent Dr. Lori Duerr and Principal Ms. Mary Whalen Gans made the announcement Friday night. “It was an...
Odin Frost and Jordan Granberry were both given low survival rates when they were born with brain damage. The two best friends, who both have special needs, grew up side-by-side in Tyler, Texas. Some doctors thought they wouldn't live very long — but they proved them wrong. Earlier this month, the two 18-year-olds received their...
AMESBURY (CBS) – Amesbury High School’s class of 2020 held their graduation ceremony on Sunday, while wearing masks in the stifling the heat. “On March 13th we all walked out of Amesbury High School for the last time. Looking back, I know we all wished it could’ve ended differently,” said valedictorian John Nelson. Parents in...
CHAPPAQUA, New York (WABC) -- A cluster of COVID-19 cases stemming from high school graduation events in Westchester County has increased to 27.Officials said Monday that the majority of the 27 cases are students.Westchester County Executive George Latimer said he hopes the cases are now leveling off as no new cases have emerged in the...
CANONSBURG (KDKA) — Canon-McMillan School District has canceled its graduation ceremony for the Class of 2020 after people were potentially exposed to the Coronavirus during a graduation rehearsal. The graduation practice took place on June 29, with the ceremony scheduled for June 30 at 7 p.m. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said in a...
BELLE VERNON (KDKA) — Parents and students who attended the Belle Vernon Area High School Graduation for the Class of 2020 may have been exposed to the Coronavirus, according to a letter from the administration. The graduation took place on June 24, and the administration says a person who attended had a positive COVID-19...
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — There have been signs of a setback in Westchester County. The number of coronavirus cases linked to a single high school graduation now stands at more than a dozen, CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported Monday. It’s another pandemic plot twist for Horace Greeley High School‘s Class of 2020. First, COVID-19 forced graduation...
CHAPPAQUA, New York (WABC) -- A high school graduation ceremony and field night in Westchester County generated at least 14 positive coronavirus cases, officials confirmed Monday.Westchester County Executive George Latimer said two families traveled to Florida prior to the event and two individuals came back with coronavirusOne of the individuals attended the Horace Greeley High...
CHAPPAQUA, New York (WABC) -- A graduation ceremony in Westchester County generated 13 positive coronavirus cases, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed Monday.The individual, who had recently traveled to Florida, attended the Horace Greeley High School drive-in graduation ceremony held on June 20 at Chappaqua Train Station and subsequently began showing symptoms, testing positive for...
New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik on Monday blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo for “hypocrisy” for calling for an investigation of a local high school student who attended a graduation “drive-in” ceremony after visiting Florida, where there was a recent uptick in coronavirus cases. “What I think is the hype of hypocrisy is the fact that Gov. Cuomo...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 contact tracing team is frantically trying to locate people who came into contact with a New York high school student who contracted the coronavirus on a recent trip to Florida. The unidentified student allegedly infected four of their peers from Horace Greeley High School in Westerchester County during a drive-in graduation...
CHAPPAQUA, New York (WABC) -- New York State's Department of Health is investigating the potential COVID-19 exposure at a high school graduation ceremony in Westchester County.The individual, who had recently traveled to Florida, attended the Horace Greeley High School drive-in graduation ceremony held on June 20 at Chappaqua Train Station and subsequently began showing symptoms,...
CHAPPAQUA, New York (WABC) -- New York State's Department of Health is investigating the potential COVID-19 exposure at a high school graduation ceremony in Westchester County.The individual, who had recently traveled to Florida, attended the Horace Greeley High School drive-in graduation ceremony held on June 20 at Chappaqua Train Station and subsequently began showing symptoms,...
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- A special virtual ceremony was held for an impressive graduation class at a high school in Washington Heights on Thursday.Yadelis Avila envisioned herself graduating high school in her cap and gown, clutching flowers in one arm and her mom and little sister in the other.It's how most high school seniors...
SAN ANTONIO – Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD is moving forward with its three high school graduation ceremonies as scheduled. According to a school district email, Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher and his emergency management team have evaluated the situation and at this time will not impose an order that limits gatherings of more than 100 people,...
Big Apple celebrities including comedian Tina Fey, “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper Pitbull and actor Kenan Thompson will star as special guests at the city’s virtual high school graduation on June 30, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. “This is about giving kids a graduation they were going to miss and think about it...
Big Apple celebrities including comedian Tina Fey, “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, rapper Pitbull and actor Kenan Thompson will star as special guests at the city’s virtual high school graduation on June 30, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. “This is about giving kids a graduation they were going to miss and think about it your...
Meghan Markle tried to connect to some young adults regarding the death of George Floyd -- and the broader issues of racism and police brutality -- In a speech via video Wednesday to graduates of her old high school in Los Angeles. “Because George Floyd's life mattered, and Breonna Taylor's life mattered, and Philando Castile's life mattered,...
A high school in Florida’s Key West came up with a novel way to honor its graduating seniors this year. Somerset Island Prep held a Jet Ski graduation ceremony that took place on the water and complied with coronavirus social distancing measures. The graduation took place Tuesday off Key West’s Southernmost House. The 11 seniors,...
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