adequate yearly progress

• 34 CFR 200.20 - Making adequate yearly progress.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 34: Education

• 34 CFR 200.13 - Adequate yearly progress in general.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 34: Education

• Mt. Pleasant Area Makes Adequate Yearly Progress Again

Mt. Pleasant Area School District's director of elementary and secondary education announced Monday night that the district once again made Adequate Yearly Progress goals. Our district as a whole made AYP or Adequate Yearly Progress for the sixth year in a row," Michael Picarsic said, adding that three schools -- Rumbaugh, Norvelt and Ramsay -- met all targets, while Donegal, and both the junior and senior highs fell slightly short. "Everyone made an outstanding effort.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• September 13, 2011

• 20 USC 7325 - Sec. 7325. Accountability for adequate yearly progress

• U.S. Code - Title 20: Education

• 'Adequate Yearly Progress' Mark Remains Elusive

The news coming out of Richmond earlier this month wasn't pretty: 62 percent of Virginia's public schools - including all but three in Suffolk - failed to meet federal testing goals. Among the five South Hampton Roads school divisions, Suffolk had the highest percentage of schools - 84 percent - missing the mark. That list includes Elephant's Fork Elementary, which has fallen short so many times it now must develop a plan for "alternate governance" in case it fails again.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• August 29, 2011

• Is 'Adequate Yearly Progress' an Adequate Measure?

To the Editor: I still have my notes from nine years ago. Speaking at a dinner meeting hosted by the Thomas Jefferson Institute, then-Virginia School Board President Mark Christie argued that "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) was doomed to failure.

• Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va.
• September 19, 2011

• 34 CFR 200.21 - Adequate yearly progress of a State.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 34: Education

• Juvenile Correctional Schools: Assessment and Accountability Policies and Practices

This study focused on school-level approaches to assessment and accountability policies and practices. A national random sample of 131 (34.22%) principals from juvenile correctional schools for committed youth (JC) responded to a mail and on-line survey. No statistically significant differences existed between respondent and nonrespondent schools. Results indicated that the majority of students with or without disabilities in JC schools participated in state assessments. The most common basis of school policies for assessment accommodations was state accommodation guidelines. For most JC schools there was no process for accountability for student participation and performance on state assessments. Almost half of principals did not know if their school made Adequate Yearly Progress. Othe...

• Journal of Correctional Education
• Vol. 61 Nbr. 1, March 2010

• Adequate Yearly Progress Made by 80 Percent of Area Public Schools

More than 80 percent of area public schools made adequate progress on measures such as test scores and graduation rates, according to figures released yesterday by the state Department of Education. Across the state, 78 percent of public schools made adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Secretary of Education Gerald Zahorchak announced yesterday at a news conference with Gov. Ed Rendell.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• September 04, 2009

• Your Guide to Adequate Yearly Progress

What is AYP? Adequate Yearly Progress, also called AYP, is the U.S. governments measure of how individual public schools perform. It is the cornerstone of the new No Child Left Behind federal education reform.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• November 30, 2005