Sentences with phrase «adequate yearly progress»

If the school does not make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years, the school remains in school improvement and the district must continue to offer public school choice to all students.

Schools that have not made state - defined adequate yearly progress for two consecutive school years are identified as needing school improvement before the beginning of the next school year.

When we looked at the chart, we could see we were above the bar, meeting adequate yearly progress.

The major problem with No Child Left Behind lies with the accountability system and the definition of adequate yearly progress.

The department is looking closely at those programs to improve their implementation and ensure that parents are aware of their options when schools do not make adequate yearly progress under the federal law.

Under it, all schools that have not made adequate yearly progress in mathematics and reading must form a school governance council.

Though scores remain fairly steady in the 80s and 90s in surrounding counties, significantly fewer schools made adequate yearly progress targets set under federal law.

After five years of failing to make adequate yearly progress goals, with as many as 67 percent of some student groups failing, the school acted.

A school that is not achieving adequate yearly progress is required to inform parents of the status of student achievement.

The law also comes across as punitive rather than supportive, because of the sanctions involved for schools that fail to show adequate yearly progress, he said.

If a student is on track to meet proficiency by the end of three school years, he or she would be counted as proficient for purposes of calculating adequate yearly progress.

For example, the results from tests administered this spring are to form the baseline for defining adequate yearly progress.

His students also have met the school district's math adequate yearly progress target every year since the No Child Left Behind legislation was implemented.

By comparison, 8 percent of parents of children in schools that had made adequate yearly progress said they were interested in another school.

We've experienced the frustration of not making adequate yearly progress even when our students are demonstrating impressive growth.

Questions like these can't be resolved by having students fill in bubble sheets or by charting adequate yearly progress.

And they have the nerve to talk about adequate yearly progress for children.

Their feeder high school has failed to make adequate yearly progress in the last five years.

In some cases, states were given exemptions from the law's key requirement to show adequate yearly progress.

It isn't clear whether this approach is necessarily superior to the cohort approach the law builds in to the definition of adequate yearly progress, but it certainly deserves serious consideration.

The problem is that those data are currently being used to issue school report cards, to calculate adequate yearly progress — and not to evaluate programs and policies.

Teachers and administrators throughout this country are focused on ensuring that both students and schools make adequate yearly progress and show growth.

From where Petrilli and others sit, Ed Trust is off - target because it is arguing for accountability systems that focus» gap - closing and proficiency rates» — the principle at the heart of No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision — that the new regimes replaced.

Arne Duncan's Sequestration Numbers Problem: Over the past couple of years, the U.S. Secretary of Education has declared that as many as 90 percent of the nation's schools would be found academically failing under No Child Left Behind Act's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions, and stated earlier this month that he wasn't likely to allow districts to participate in the Obama administration's No Child waiver gambit.

The Department of Education last week chose North Carolina and Tennessee as the first states for a pilot program that will allow them to measure adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act based on the academic growth that students show from year to year.

However, Obama wants to replace the federal adequate yearly progress system with state - developed accountability models, while Romney wants to arm parents with data and choices so that they, as education consumers, can hold schools accountable.

States can include the scores of students taking these alternate assessments, up to a limit of 1 percent of all students in the grades assessed, in showing proficiency under federal Adequate Yearly Progress requirements.

FCAT now shares equal weight with Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in determining individual high school ratings.

In August, Oklahoma became the second state to lose a waiver from the 2001 law, which mandated standardized testing and set annual growth goals called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

The Texas Education Agency announced Aug. 8, 2012, that 44 percent of Texas campuses met federal Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) targets in 2012 due to a substantial increase in requirements.

Someone should remind our loquacious governor that he was instrumental in passing legislation that's eerily similar — i.e., inasmuch as CT students can't meet NCLB's Adequate Yearly Progress standards, CT will now raise those performance standards by embracing the Common Core, increasing graduation requirements, and eliminating developmental education for entering college freshmen who need extra help.

Paul Ezen of New Hampshire asked, «Is the special ed population in the school going to throw a school into [adequate yearly progress] failure when the majority of the student body is making the goal?»

[Adequate Yearly Progress], where I'm from in Minnesota, that guarantees that every public school in America is failing.

- Use multiple sources of evidence to describe and interpret school and district performance fairly, based on a balance of progress toward and success in meeting student academic learning targets, thereby replacing the current Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) structure.

Though thin on the details of the waivers, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says too many schools will not make adequate yearly progress measurements this year, and the law needs to be overhauled.

Last year, the school reached Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals for the first time in seven years.

Education World: Who is going to determine if a state is properly integrating adequate yearly progress into its accountability systems?

Those schools still will be deemed to meet the AYP requirement if: The proportion of students in the relevant subgroup who failed to score proficient or higher has declined by at least 10 percent from the preceding school year; the group has exhibited progress on one or more additional academic indicators required by the law; and not less than 95 percent of each subgroup of students enrolled in the school took the tests on which adequate yearly progress is based.

Curiously, Vogell noted, several schools statewide had changed in status between the spring 2008 administration of the test and the summer retest in 2008, going from not meeting Adequate Yearly Progress rates, a calculation set by federal legislation that determines the fates of individual schools, to meeting the measure.

In this interactive map, the district's 189 public, charter, magnet and pilot high schools are color - coded by their Academic Performance Index score and sorted based on Adequate Yearly Progress proficiencies.