Telescoping differs from curriculum compacting in that time saved from telescoping results in advanced grade placement.
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The program prepares the recipients to pass the grade placement examination ( PEPTest ) given by the Department of Education.
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These students can appeal to a grade placement committee of parent, teacher and principal, who must vote unanimously to promote the student.
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In addition, he said students will have three chances to pass the test and a grade placement committee will consider their test performance and grades before failing them.
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If students do not pass the TAAS on the third try, parents may appeal the retention to a grade placement committee made up of a parent, teacher and principal.
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Rep . Harold Dutton, D-Houston, was skeptical about low-income parents'ability to participate in a grade placement committee called for in the Senate bill.
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This practice allows students to be placed with classes with older peers for a part of the day ( or with materials from higher grade placements ) in one or more content areas.
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Gretchen Whitney High School, in the Southern California city of Cerritos, starts out with a brainy student body-- students who scored in the 75th percentile or higher on the district's seventh-grade placement exam.
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The local-control function would come in the form of a " grade placement committee " that will hear appeals on behalf of third-, fifth-, and eighth-graders who fail TAAS but believe they should be promoted.
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At a more practical level, nearly every OTC child arrived in America not being able to speak English, and so he was held behind in school grade placement ( though most rapidly learned English and then advanced rapidly into his proper school-grade ).