At A Glance
The 2012-2013 school year would be a transition from No Child Left Behind to the new accountability system adopted Thursday by the state Board of Education. Here are the key features of the 100-point scoring system:
The 2012-2013 school year would be a transition from No Child Left Behind to the new accountability system adopted Thursday by the state Board of Education. Here are the key features of the 100-point scoring system:
• At the pre-secondary level for 2013-2014, there would be two criteria for judging a school’s performance: student achievement, 80 points, and school attendance, 20 points.
• For 2014-2015 the pre-secondary criteria would spread wider: student achievement, 25 points; school attendance, 20 points; academic growth, 25 points; effective teachers and principals, 20 points; and school climate, 10 points.
• At the secondary level, for 2013-2014 there would be three criteria: student achievement, 50 points; high school completion, 25 points; and college and career readiness, 25 points.
• For 2014-2015 at the secondary level there would be more criteria: student achievement, 25 points; high school completion, 25 points; college and career readiness, 20 points; effective teachers and principals, 20 points; and school climate, 10 points.
• The standardized tests that have been used for NCLB would remain. Student achievement would consider math and reading scores equally.
• Under the new system, academic progress goals would be calculated by school. The goal would be to reduce, rather than eliminate, the percentage of students scoring at basic or below-basic in math and reading.
• The goal would be to reduce the percentage of under-performers by one-half over the course of six years. The school would be expected to achieve an annual goal of accomplishing one-sixth of the reduction goal.
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