PowerPoint Presentation Memphis City Schools

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New State and Federal Laws on School
Accountability
Information from Countdown to
Accountability Summer Leadership Institute July
2002 Arizona School Boards Association from
presentations by Chris Thomas and Arizona
Department of Education
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Purposeful School Accountability
Fair and accurate measurement of school
performance designed to publicly identify and
improve under-performing schools
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AZ LEARNS

• State school accountability system
• Result of Proposition 301, passed November 2000,
  modified 2002
• Focus is on all students meeting the Arizona
  Academic Standards
• Will classify schools (Achievement Profiles)
• Low classification triggers school improvement
  process

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No Child Left Behind

• Federal school accountability system
• Passed January 2002
• Focus is on all students meeting State Standards
• Will classify schools (Achievement Profiles)
• Low classification triggers school improvement
  process

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Current Challenge

• ? ADE is working to align state and federal
  accountability systems into ONE statewide school
  accountability system
• One label for both State and Federal requirements
• Align school improvement process for State and
  Federal systems

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AZ LEARNS

• Proposed Solution
• HB2658 successful in the Legislature in 2002
• Lays the foundation to create a single
  accountability system
• Represents broad consensus from the education
  community
• ? Conversations with USDOE

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What are the indicators of school performance?
A c h i e v e m e n t

(A IMS)

Change/Growth (MAP-SAT9)
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Elementary Achievement Profiles

• AIMS
• - Are schools improving at teaching in key
  grades, regardless of student group?
• MAP
• - Are schools achieving One Years Growth
  with students the school has had an
  opportunity to educate?

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AIMSKey Components for Accurate Assessment of
School Performance
? 3-Year rolling average to mitigate group
differences ? Require growth by all student
groups ? Analyze data by student mobility to
confirm findings ? Includes growth for ALL
students by looking at the advancement of
students at all performance levels
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MAP
? Provides longitudinal view of performance ?
Holds schools directly accountable for students
the school has had an opportunity to educate ? A
student will achieve One Years Growth on MAP if
the student remains in the same stanine or
progresses to a higher stanine from one grade to
the next ? Change points awarded for negative
change in the Falls Far Below category and
positive change in the Meets or Exceeds Category
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AZ LEARNS Will Evolve

• ? To match changing testing requirements
• NCLB requires testing of all grades 3-8 in
  Reading and Math by 2005-2006 and Science in
  specific grade levels by 2007-2008
• Annual assessments required for students in
  grades 3-8 in reading/language arts, science and
  math

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AZ LEARNS Will Evolve

• ? To match changing testing requirements (cont)
• Beginning in 2002-2003 school year, every state
  must participate in 4th and 8th grade reading and
  math sections of the National Assessment of
  Educational Progress (NAEP)
• NAEP only given to a random sample of students in
  state

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Multiple School Classifications
? A spectrum of school classifications allows
for the identification of diverse school
outcomes. Excelling Improving Maint
aining Underperforming Failing (in
subsequent years) Each school will be given a
single school classification
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AZ LEARNS HB2658
? Baseline achievement profiles due to be set as
of last year (Oct. 2001) ? First identification
of Underperforming Schools THIS October (2002)
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AZ LEARNS HB2658
? If Underperforming, a school must - within
30 days, provide written notification to
residents in attendance area - within 90 days
develop an improvement plan and submit to State
Superintendent - within 30 days of submission of
improvement plan hold a special public
hearing - if improvement plan is submitted to
State Superintendent more than 90 days late,
classroom site fund monies will be withheld
(Prop 301) - school district superintendent must
testify before SBOE and discuss reasons for
lateness
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AZ LEARNS HB2658
? If Underperforming for a second year, the ADE
must visit school site to confirm data leading to
school being designated as Failing also ADE must
review school improvement plan ? If all is
confirmed that school is Underperforming for a
second year, school is designated as Failing ?
Failing schools will be assigned solutions team
by State Superintendent to revise improvement
plan - comprised of master teachers, fiscal
analysts and curriculum assessment experts that
have been certified by ADE
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AZ LEARNS HB2658
? In addition, if school is Failing - must
provide written notification regarding Failing
School to each residence in attendance area
within 30 days of designation as
Failing - must evaluate need for changes to
existing improvement plan and consider
recommendations of ADE solutions team within 60
days of designation as Failing - governing board
must hold public hearing in each school
designated as Failing (30 days after
resubmitting improvement plan to ADE)
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AZ LEARNS HB2658
? CSF funds can be withheld if timelines not
met ? Pupils attending Failing schools can
receive tutoring paid for from Failing Schools
Tutoring Fund (est. in Education 2000) ? Schools
that do not meet NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress
goals over period of time are subject to
progressive intervention up to restructuring,
private management or takeover