This Year 489 Schools In Michigan….
have failed to meet AYP goals. This is up from 399 schools last year. The tougher exam is to blame for this increase.
have failed to meet AYP goals. This is up from 399 schools last year. The tougher exam is to blame for this increase.
school districts in the state have been told in a letter they are in danger of being abolished, taken over or stripped of administrators and schools under their jurisdiction due to not meeting goals in the NCLB bill.
is out and what a state calls a “Dangerous School.” Around 94,000 schools exist and only 46 were designated as persistently dangerous in the past school year. Widespread underreporting of violent acts and states with rules saying was a dangerous school is the cause for so few schools to make the list.
that schools in the state are having a tough time meeting “Highly Qualified Teacher” rules. The article states that Tennessee has around 98% of teachers that meet this goal, but have until August to meet a 100% goal.
I hate this rule, but how can you not go wrong with number around 98%.
On NCLB is out. They are releasing the 2007 Pangloss Index. The one state they focus the most on and had the biggest jump was Alabama. Jumping up to 5th place from 22nd in one year.
The report gets into detail on how the Birmingham Alabama school districts cheated the students in the school district by using a high subgroup size to get less students counted and getting the US Department of Education to agree giving schools half credit for every student who missed level III but achieved level II just to help with AYP goals. With almost every student at level II it screwed up real AYP progress big time.
on the No Child Left Behind Bill. The article looks at how the bill got passed.