Adequate Yearly Progress AYP Information Session

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Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Information
Session

• Juliane Dow, Associate Commissioner
• Accountability Targeted Assistance
• Massachusetts Department of Education
• September 21, 2006

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State Performance Targets 2002-2014
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How is AYP Calculated?
(100 Cycle III CPI) / 5
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Sample CPI Calculation
79.0
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When Schools Do Not Make AYP for Two Consecutive
Years

• Schools that do not make AYP for two consecutive
  years in either subject for any group are
  identified for improvement
• All schools identified for improvement must
  develop a plan for improving student performance
  
• Title I schools identified for improvement must
  also
• offer school choice (year 1 in improvement
  status)
• offer supplemental services (year 2 if fail to
  make AYP in year 1)

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Schools in Corrective Action Status

• Schools identified for improvement that fail to
  make AYP for 2 additional years are identified
  for corrective action
• Districts with schools in corrective action must
• Institute new curriculum relevant to schools low
  performance and provide professional development
  to support its implementation
• Extend length of school year or school day
• Replace school staff deemed relevant to school
  not making adequate progress
• Significantly decrease management authority at
  the school
• Restructure internal organization of the school
  or
• Appoint one or more outside experts to advise
  school in its improvement efforts

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Schools in Restructuring Status

• Schools in corrective action that fail to make
  AYP in 2006 are identified for restructuring
• Districts with schools in restructuring status
  must
• Reconstitute the school by replacing school staff
  relevant to the schools inability to make
  adequate progress
• Enter into contract with an entity with a
  demonstrated record of effectiveness to operate
  the school as a public school
• Turn operation of the school over to State
  educational agency, if the State agrees
• Re-open the school as a public charter school or
• Implement any other major restructuring of the
  school's governance arrangement that makes
  fundamental reforms, such as significant changes
  in the school's staffing and governance, to
  improve student academic achievement in the
  school and that has substantial promise of
  enabling the school to make adequate yearly
  progress.

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Sample 2006 District AYP History Table
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Districts Identified for Improvement or
Corrective Action

• Districts that do not make AYP for two
  consecutive years in either subject for any
  group, at all grade-spans, are identified for
  improvement
• Districts identified for improvement year 2 that
  do not make AYP in 2006 at all grade-spans are
  identified for corrective action
• When a district is in corrective action, the
  State must
• Defer programmatic funds or reduce administrative
  funds
• Institute new curriculum relevant to districts
  low performance and provide professional
  development to support its implementation
• Replace district personnel relevant to inability
  of district to make adequate progress
• Remove individual schools from the jurisdiction
  of the district and arrange for their public
  governance and supervision
• Appoint a receiver or trustee to administer the
  affairs of the district in place of the
  superintendent and school board or
• Abolish or restructure the district

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Resources

• http//www.doe.mass.edu/sda/ayp/cycleIV/default.ht
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• 2006 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Data
• 2006 List of Schools Districts Removed from
  2005 Accountability Status
• 2006 List of Schools Districts Identified for
  Improvement, Corrective Action, and Restructuring
  
• School Leaders' Guide to the 2006 Cycle IV
  Accountability and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
  Reports
• Glossary of Accountability and AYP Terms
• School and District Accountability Status and
  Required Actions, 2006-07
• 2006 MCAS and AYP Data Review and Reporting
  Schedules

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Questions
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