Sentences with phrase «at making adequate yearly progress»

Across the United States, I see schools that are succeeding at making adequate yearly progress but failing our students.

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Holbein looked at local school board races from 2004 - 2012 in North Carolina communities where schools failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as defined by the 2001 federal No Child Left Behind legislation.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

At the heart of both bills was a detailed formula for determining when a school is making «adequate yearly progress.»

Were looking at expanded learning time as a way to boost achievement and make adequate yearly progress (AYP), Rocha continued.

Under that system, whether a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress is determined primarily based on the share of students scoring at proficient levels in math and reading in a given year.

At that time, and under his leadership, the school was the only middle school in the district to have earned an A grade and make Adequate Yearly Progress every year since the inception of No Child Left Behind.

To make adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal law, schools and districts must meet annual targets for the percentage of students who score at least at the proficient level on state reading and mathematics tests, both for the student population as a whole and for certain subgroups of students.

• The requirements for adequate yearly progress and school improvement apply equally to high schools and elementary schools, yet it is not clear that they make as much sense at the secondary level.

An article in the Oct. 25, 2006, issue of Education Week on charter schools in the District of Columbia («At Age 10, Booming D.C. Charters Feel «Growing Pains»») should have said that 118 out of 146 regular public schools in the city did not make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act for last school year.

Just look at maybe one of the most important sections of the law: Section 1116 (b)(7)-- it provides for districts overseeing schools who don't make AYP two years straight to «replace the school staff who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress,» overhaul curriculum, or let parents send their kids to another school in the district.

Because schools are under pressure to make adequate yearly progress, administrators who may have bristled at parents getting involved in academics are learning to take all the help they can get, Henderson says.

But at the end of that year, some half - dozen of the 16 targeted schools made adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, something they had never achieved before.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, school districts must make fundamental changes at schools that haven't made so - called «adequate yearly progress» for six years.

No one asks whether a school makes adequate yearly progress in increasing students» proficiency at caring for others or giving a project their all.