Information Related To Individual School
Building Adequate Yearly
Progress Status
For more information, contact
T.J. Bucholz (517) 241-4395, MDE, 8-05-02
The United States Department of Education released information on July
1, 2002, about the number of Title I
schools identified for improvement.
Because Michigan's standards for achievement are much higher than
those of most states, Michigan had
the highest number of schools on the list.
New federal
legislation, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, requires that
schools demonstrate adequate yearly
progress (AYP) in only reading and
mathematics. Michigan, however, has required that a school
demonstrate adequate yearly progress
in mathematics, reading, science and writing. A
school that fails to make adequate
yearly progress in any one of these subjects
for two consecutive years is identified for
improvement.
Based on the
Michigan standards, 1,513 schools were identified for
improvement using achievement data
from the 2000-2001 school year. However,
based on the federal requirement of using only reading and
mathematics, 1,106 schools would have been identified for
improvement.
When the AYP
standard was adopted in 1997 by the State Board of Education,
the standard was solely designed to
help schools focus professional
development. There were also no immediate negative
consequences, because the No Child
Left Behind Law did not yet exist. Michigan is also currently
revising its AYP criteria to conform
with Education YES!, the state's new
accreditation system.
School
districts and public school academies received a copy of their AYP
status in September 2001. On July 3,
the Department of Education again sent a
hard copy to schools in Michigan. For a report of your local
school building's AYP status, please
contact your local school district.
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