PPT Slide
- Ensure accountability for federal dollars by preserving and enforcing the law’s current trigger for school intervention: that schools receiving Title I funds make adequate yearly progress that results in continuous and substantial yearly improvement of each local educational agency and school sufficient to achieve the goal of all children served meeting the state’s proficient and advanced levels of performance, particularly economically disadvantaged and limited-English proficient students.
- Clarify that states must ensure that schools and local educational agencies are put in school improvement if they fail to make sufficient progress toward getting all students to meet the standards by 10 years from the date of enactment of the amendment/reauthorization. (This plus the five years during the current authorization is 15 years – more than a whole generation of students). States must ensure that schools are meeting benchmarks along the way. Schools cannot be allowed to make little or no progress for 8 years, under the assumption they can make extraordinary gains in years 9 and 10.
- Clarify that schools and local educational agencies must be held accountable for enabling all students to meet the standards in all of the subjects and grades in which the assessment is given. It is simply not enough for a school to do a great job in 6th grade math or science, if the 3rd graders cannot read. Offsetting poor performance in one area with better performance in another is not in the best interests of all children.