posted by Joe Polk at 8:04 AM /
On the surface, the state's report card on math and reading achievement is impressive: 92 percent of Pennsylvania's school districts and 77 percent of its schools met or were making progress toward all state achievement targets.
But beneath the surface is another picture -- even in some schools that made what's called "adequate yearly progress," or AYP, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
While AYP requires meeting the targets in only one grade span, four of 43 districts in Allegheny County -- Brentwood, Hampton, Mt. Lebanon and Upper St. Clair -- met all of their targets in all three grade spans in both subjects without using alternative means. Mt. Lebanon and Upper St. Clair managed to do it even with special education subgroups in all three grade spans.
Of the 32 high schools in Allegheny County that made AYP or were making progress toward it, only four had to account for special education subgroups, and only one -- Mt. Lebanon with 64.3 percent in reading and 46.4 percent in math -- made AYP in both subjects without an alternative mean, such as safe harbor.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/07267/820095-298.stm
But beneath the surface is another picture -- even in some schools that made what's called "adequate yearly progress," or AYP, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
While AYP requires meeting the targets in only one grade span, four of 43 districts in Allegheny County -- Brentwood, Hampton, Mt. Lebanon and Upper St. Clair -- met all of their targets in all three grade spans in both subjects without using alternative means. Mt. Lebanon and Upper St. Clair managed to do it even with special education subgroups in all three grade spans.
Of the 32 high schools in Allegheny County that made AYP or were making progress toward it, only four had to account for special education subgroups, and only one -- Mt. Lebanon with 64.3 percent in reading and 46.4 percent in math -- made AYP in both subjects without an alternative mean, such as safe harbor.
Link: www.post-gazette.com/pg/07267/820095-298.stm
Labels: education, school district
2 Comments:
We're moving right along in PA ! Did we also quality for the national Baldridge Award this year ?
The Baldridge report is interesting and can be found on the school website under NEWS on the side bar. No award this year.
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