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May whitney parent coffee 9/19/13. Understanding No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), and school choice. Overview. Change in Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) scores for all Illinois schools
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May whitneyparent coffee9/19/13 Understanding No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), and school choice
Overview • Change in Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) scores for all Illinois schools • Change in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for all Illinois Schools • Unintended consequences of NCLB • Identification of schools and school choice • Parent feedback about May Whitney
Change in ISAT Cut Scores • Cut scores, which are determined by the State Board of Education, define a student’s academic proficiency as Exceeds Standards, Meets Standards, Below Standards or Academic Warning. • In January 2013, the State Board of Education announced that ISAT cut scores would be changed for the 2013 ISAT test. • The State Board anticipated a 20% decrease in students meeting or exceeding standards across the state. • Scores were changed to better align with college- and career-readiness standards and to prepare students for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam, which will replace ISAT in 2015.
Adequate Yearly Progress 2013 • There are 10 subgroups plus an ALL group for reading and the same for math. • 45 students make up a subgroup. • 92.5% of students must meet or exceed ISAT standards. • If 4 students out of the 45 students do not meet standards in just 1 of the 10 subgroups in either reading or math, the entire school “fails.”
Sub Groups • Individual scores can be counted up to 4 times in the AYP report: • The score of one student who is White, who is an English-language learner, who is low-income and who has an IEP will count in four different subgroups in math and in reading, plus the ALL category. • The score of one student who is White and is not identified for any other subgroup category will count only once in reading and once in math, plus the ALL category.
Unintended Outcomes of NCLB • No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2002. • The intent of the law was good for students. Schools needed to look at every student and help them make progress. • The law was to be reauthorized by Congress in 2007. • This is high-stakes testing. An entire school or district is rated based on one assessment given once a year. With AYP at 92.5% and next year at 100%, are schools that achieve 92.4% or 99.9% next year really failing? • District 95 uses the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment to communicate with parents their student’s academic performance. MAP provides parents with multiple data points to see progress over time because students take the exam three times each year.
Identification of Schools • While all schools must be accountable to AYP, schools receiving Title I funds have more consequences for not making AYP. • MW is in the school improvement status which means the school has failed to make adequate year progress for 3 of the past 4 years. • We are therefore required to offer school choice and Supplementary Educational Services (tutoring to low-income students).
Choice School Selection • Only schools that make AYP are eligible to be considered as a choice school. • Districts must provide, if available, like programming so all families have access to what they currently receive at their school. • If no schools in a district make AYP, parents are not offered any schools of choice.
