Sentences with phrase «district makes adequate yearly progress»

The commissioner shall consider the self - assessment, board recommendation and any other relevant information in determining whether the school or school district made adequate yearly progress.

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Districts with schools that had persistently failed to make «adequate yearly progress» in their test - score performance were required to offer the students in those schools options ranging from a seat in a higher - performing public school to free tutoring services.

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced on Aug. 4 that Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Utah will be allowed to let districts provide supplemental educational services, or SES, to eligible students whose Title I schools fail to make adequate yearly progress for two years.

Under the «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001, states must determine each year whether school districts have made «adequate yearly progress» in academic achievement.

Your district scores skyrocket, and all those that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) 0..

Then the district offered transfers only to students in 48 of the 179 schools that had failed to make adequate yearly progress.

Acting upon the superintendent's recommendation, the SRC decided that the six schools should come under direct district control once again because they had not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), as required by No Child Left Behind.

A public school, charter school or school district shall be deemed to have made adequate yearly progress on an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraph (14) of this subdivision if each accountability group within such school or district achieved adequate yearly progress on that criterion.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

the school or district has made adequate yearly progress on all applicable criteria and indicators in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision for two consecutive years.

In public schools, charter schools or school districts with fewer than 30 students subject to an accountability performance criterion set forth in paragraphs (14) and (15) of this subdivision, the commissioner shall use the weighted average of the current and prior school year's performance data for that criterion in order to make a determination of adequate yearly progress.

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 superintendent of the school district or principal of the charter school shall review the self - assessment (s) and make a recommendation to the commissioner, in such format and according to such timeframe as the commissioner may prescribe, as to whether the school or school district has made adequate yearly progress.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

Howell neglects to mention that among the 14 largest urban districts in Massachusetts, Worcester had the second highest percentage (68 percent) of schools meeting state targets for making «adequate yearly progress» under the law; the statewide average was 48 percent.

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.

For a school or district to make adequate yearly progress, both the overall student population and each subgroup of students — major racial and ethnic groups, children from low - income families, students with disabilities, and students with limited proficiency in English — must meet or exceed the target set by the state.

In her Nov. 22 letter (starts on page 6), Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote, «The requirements to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to identify schools for improvement, corrective action and restructuring have not been waived, and any State laws or regulations, including those related to AYP or school improvement status, are not affected by the waivers granted to your district.»

If their request is granted, student scores on Smarter Balanced assessments this year would be reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as they will be to parents and schools in California, but would not be used to measure whether a school or district has made Adequate Yearly Progress.

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.

And so, five years ago, the district was flagged for not making federal benchmarks for adequate yearly progress (AYP).

Each state operated under their own individual NCLB approved plan that required schools and districts to make adequate yearly progress toward the academic goal of 100 percent proficiency in English Language Arts and Math by 2014.

Dr. Gandhi has recently served as the data director for the Special Education Component of the Audit of the Written, Taught, and Tested Curriculum for New York State, in which she oversaw the collection and analysis of data in districts that were under corrective action with the state due to failure to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) due to the performance of students with disabilities.

The SECC also provides guidance to state and district leaders when a school fails to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward statewide proficiency goals as stipulated by the No Child Left Behind Act.

In a letter written almost a year ago, Assistant Secretary of Education Deborah Delisle wrote, «The requirements to determine whether schools have made adequate yearly progress (AYP) and to identify schools for improvement, corrective action and restructuring have not been waived, and any State laws or regulations, including those related to AYP or school improvement status, are not affected by the waivers granted to your district.»

Last year alone, StateImpact found the cap lowered the state letter grades of 319 Indiana schools who performed well enough to earn A's or B's, but earned C's because they failed to make «Adequate Yearly Progress» under NCLB — much to the dismay of many district - and school - level administrators.

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.