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Houston served its time.


Texas lifted the probation probation, method by which the punishment of a convicted offender is conditionally suspended. The offender must remain in the community and under the supervision of a probation officer, who is usually a court-appointed official.  on Houston's public schools and restored the district's ranking this summer, citing the district's progress toward more accurate reporting of students who quit To exit the current program.  high school.

About a year ago, Texas education authorities put the district on probation when 15 out of 16 schools were found to have severely underreported high school dropouts. Houston Houston, city (1990 pop. 1,630,553), seat of Harris co., SE Tex., a deepwater port on the Houston Ship Channel; inc. 1837. Economy


The fourth largest city in the nation and the largest in the entire South and Southwest, Houston is a port of entry;
 schools reported a 1.5 percent dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human  rate in 2000-01 school year, compared with many inner city schools having more than a 50 percent dropout rate. Houston failed to account for 3,000 students that should have been counted as dropouts, but were not.
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Title Annotation:Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies; Houston's school district reinstated after false dropout count reports
Publication:District Administration
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U7TX
Date:Oct 1, 2004
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