It's significant while we're making progress, it's with students who require extra intervention and attention,
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.Margaret Spellings
Worries about accountability may also have played a role in the decision to open brand-new schools rather than add teachers and students to existing schools. That's because President Bush's No Child Left Behind policy imposes sanctions on every school that fails to improve its test standing each year, a requirement known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). By the state's own accountability measure, the schools in Orleans Parish have the lowest performance scores in the state East Baton Rouge Parish is 10 places higher on the list of 65. The state department of education has already asked federal education secretary Margaret Spellings to limit AYP requirements for 20052006 to students enrolled in the same school for two years. I am reluctant to waive, even partially, AYP or approve broad changes in state AYP definitions at this time, ... the linchpin of the No Child Left Behind accountability system.
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Also, make sure your children are challenged make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous work home.
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A growth model is not a way around accountability standards,
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This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.
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Everybody, I think, has that attitude to do everything they can to welcome these kids and get them back to kind of a normal life as soon as possible,
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