In other words, rather than representing minimum competencies, benchmarks are intended to raise expectations.

That school was so based on getting to minimum competency on the state English and math tests - Spanish was not on the radar.

It proposes law schools teach certain minimum competencies, a stand-alone ethics course, and possess certain institutional minimums.

The limit of graduation each subject in accordance with the demands of minimum competency.

You may be found "not qualified" if you do not possess the minimum competencies required for the position.

In an era of efforts to maintain uniform standards to graduate functioning members of society, it will be even more difficult to insure minimum competency.

The portion of the city's sixth graders performing at minimum competency rose 1.8 percent to 68.4 percent in 1997.

On the old test, which measured minimum competency, affluent suburban districts were accustomed to seeing more than 90 percent of their students pass.

It is targeted towards all medical students in order to produce a minimum competency in emergency care for all physicians, regardless of their specialty.

The test, which measures minimum competency in reading, is given annually to third, sixth and eighth graders.