Making the Grade: What Schools Did Better
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
All schools in the country must make adequate yearly progress on standardized tests, according to federal law. Those schools that fail to make the necessary progress two years in a row are deemed “Schools in Need of Improvement.”
That means that the state Department of Education can intervene - initially to help the school reform itself. But eventually, if there is still no improvement, the school could be restructured by the state.
In order to get off the list, schools must reverse the trend and make adequate progress two years in a row. Below are seven schools that accomplished this in the 2009-2010 school year.
A district is in need of improvement if two out of three grades or 40 percent or more of its schools did not make adequate progress two years in a row. Like schools, districts need to make progress two years in a row to get off the list. One district did it this year—North Providence.
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