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More important, the new dispensation has encouraged state universities to step up their efforts to recruit students from low-performing high schools, often with positive results.
On the basis of that test and a few other factors, schools are rated in one of four categories: "low-performing," "acceptable," "recognized," or "exemplary."
It says that students who fail the Texas test and who attend schools rated "low-performing" by the state for just one year, can receive a credit of $3,575 to attend private school.
How is it that only one school in the whole state of Texas has been rated "low-performing" for three consecutive years?
Only one school in the entire state--Goodrich Elementary School, 60 miles outside Houston--has been rated "low-performing" for three consecutive years.