No Child Left Behind Act

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No Child Left Behind Act

• Impact on Strategies to Increase Student
  Achievement

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Overview

• No Child Left Behind Act

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What is No Child Left Behind?

• The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a sweeping
  education reform plan, affecting both elementary
  and secondary schools.
• It asks schools to describe their success in
  terms of what each student accomplishes.
• Sets goal for 100 of all students to pass
  rigorous State assessments by 2013-14.

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What Is NCLB Designed to Achieve?

• Stronger accountability
• Increased flexibility and local control of
  federal funds
• Emphasis on teaching methods that have been
  proven to work
• Expanded options for parents

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NCLB Accountability Provisions

• Stronger academic standards
• Tests aligned with rigorous State standards
• Adequate yearly progress
• Results reported according to student groups
• Access to highly qualified teachers

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NCLB Accountability Provisions

• School report cards which detail student
  performance
• Consequences for schools that fail to make
  progress
• Within twelve years, all students performing at a
  proficient level under individual states
  standards

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NCLB Student Achievement Performance Goals

• All students will reach the standard for
  performance or better in reading and mathematics
  by 2013-14.
• All limited English proficient students will
  become proficient in English and reach high
  academic standards.
• By 2005-2006, all students will be taught by
  highly qualified teachers.

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NCLB Student Achievement Performance Goals

• All students educated in a safe, drug free
  environment conducive to learning.
• All students will graduate from high school.

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• Beginning with 2003-2004 school year, School
  Districts applying for funds under the NCLB Act
  must adopt, at a minimum, the same five goals and
  related performance indicators that are required
  by the Department of Education and submitted in
  the consolidated state application to be
  effective July 1, 2003 for the 2003-2004 school
  year.

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• Beginning with the 2003-2004 school year, all
  School Districts are advised to review the
  performance indicators and to develop and
  implement procedures for collecting data in those
  instances where it is not already submitted as
  part of AEIS or in PEIMS.

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• Summary of Statutory Provisions

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If a campus, district, or state that is
receiving Title I, Part A funds does not meet the
AYP criteria for the same measure for two
consecutive years, that campus or district or
state enters school improvement status and is
subject to certain school improvement activities,
supplemental education services requirements,
and/or corrective action.
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Title I, Part A School Improvement Requirements
for Campuses in Improvement

• Campus requirements by year
• School Improvement / Choice
• Supplemental Education Services
• Corrective Action
• Restructuring
• Alternative Governance

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AYP Evaluates Seven Student Groups

• All students
• African American students
• Hispanic students
• White students
• Economically disadvantaged students
• Special education students
• Limited English proficient (LEP) students

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What Are the Criteria for Meeting AYP?

• Meet the performance standard for percent
  proficient in reading and mathematics, and
• Meet the performance standard for participation
  in the assessment program separately for
  reading/language arts and mathematics, and

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• Meet the performance standard for the additional
  indicator at the all student level only
• High school graduation standard
• 70
• Attendance rate standard for elementary and
  middle school
• 90

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Performance Gains Option

• AYP can also be met for Reading/English Language
  Arts and Mathematics if there is sufficient
  decrease (10) from the prior year in the
  percentage of students failing to perform at the
  proficient level and improvement is shown on the
  other performance measure (graduation rate or
  attendance).

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Texas AYP Standards for Reading/English Language
Arts and Mathematics
Grades 3-8 and 10 summed across grade levels by
subject for reading/language arts and mathematics
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Calculation for 95 Participation
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Minimum Size Criteria for AYP Assessment Measure

• 50/10/200 50 or more students in the group
  (summed across grades 3-8 and 10 for the
  subject),and the group must comprise at least 10
  of all test takers in the subject or 200 or
  more students in the student group, even if the
  group represents less than 10 of all test takers
  in the subject.

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Minimum Size Criteria for AYP Other Performance
Measure
Based on total days in membership rather than
individual student counts. Attendance rates of
campuses and districts with at least 7200 total
days in membership (40 students x 180 school
days) will be evaluated.
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Comparison of Selected Assessment and
Accountability Provisions Texas and NCLB
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AYP Designation

• Met AYP
• Needs Improvement

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Be Prepared to Speak To

• Your schools assessment participation rate in
  2003, this is absences on the day of testing for
  TAKS and SDAA
• The percent of Met Standard scores on TAKS
  compared to AYP Standards for Reading/Language
  Arts and Mathematics including LEP and special
  education students

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NCLB Required Data Elements for State Report Card

• Aggregated and disaggregated student performance
  data
• Comparison to State performance
• Percent of students not tested
• Recent two-year trend in student achievement data

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NCLB Required Data Elements for State Report Card

• Graduation rates for secondary school students
  disaggregated by student group
• Information on attendance indicator disaggregated
  by student group
• Information on performance of LEAs re AYP and
  names of schools identified for school
  improvement under section 1116

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NCLB Required Data Elements for State Report Card

• Professional qualifications of teachers in the
  State
• of teachers with emergency or provisional
  certification
• of classes in the State, not taught by highly
  qualified teachers
• Aggregate and disaggregated by high-poverty
  compared to low-poverty schools

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For More Information

• TEA 2003 Accountability website
• State 2003 AYP Guide available at this site on
  9/2/03
• http//www.tea.state.tx.us/ayp/
• The No Child Left Behind website
• www.nochildleftbehind.gov
• Learning First Alliance includes A Practical
  Guide to Talking to the Community About Adequate
  Yearly Progress
• http//www.learningfirst.org/publications/nclbguid
  e/index.html
• AYP Primer for the Education Trust
• http//www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/F7F160C3-DE70
  -4F63-BFOC-2DC47911DA66/0/AYPUnderNCLB.pdf

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HISD Track Record in Responding to the Challenge

• We have done it before we can do it again!

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A Look at the Challenge Ahead

• ILLUSTRATION

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High School Math by Student Group2 SEM, 1 SEM,
Panel Recommendation / AYP Target Increase
SPED
8
24
13
LEP
13
35
21
Econ Dis
28
56
41
White
68
87
79
Hispanic
29
57
41
African-Amer
27
55
40
All
35
61
47
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
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High School Math 2003-041 SEM Standard / AYP
Target Unchanged
SPED
8
13
LEP
13
21
Econ Dis
28
41
White
68
79
Hispanic
29
41
African-Amer
27
40
All
35
47
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
CAVEAT Illustrations are based on Spring 2003
TAKS Data ONLY. AYP calculation is based on a
subset of this data which accounts for student
mobility
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SO WHAT?What NOT to Do

• Dont look for loopholes in the system it is
  transparent.

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What to Do

• Focus on Student Performance for ALL students
  (TAKS Response)
• Focus on ensuring that all students are in
  attendance on TAKS test days
• Focus on getting kids to school and keeping them
  there (Adult Advocates and Using SAIR report)
• Be attentive to reported data and data quality

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Lets Work Together

• TAKS Response (Curriculum)
• Adult Advocates and Personal Graduation Plans
  (School Administration)
• PASS / Get the data you need to make good
  decisions (Teacher Tools)
• AYP Calculations (Research Accountability)
• Data Quality (Federal State Compliance)

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Next Steps

• Collaborative Planning
• Current Position
• Resource Inventory
• How are we using resources currently?
• What would be the best use of additional
  resources to maximize the benefit for increased
  student achievement?