Teachers at ITT Tech must reach a quota of student attendance AND pass a certain number of students in each class to keep teaching the class. For example, TB133 (the first class a student takes at ITT) must have student attendance and success rates (total number of students that started the class and passed) of around 75%. This number is supposedly calculated from a national average of that class's (TB133) numbers the preceding quarter.
This practice started about two years ago and the ramifications of not making the number has has increased. What started as a gauge to see where improvements could be made to instruction has escalated into teachers being reassigned or let go.
This information has been sent to ITT's accrediting body ACICS around a year ago, but no action has been taken by them to date.
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