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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
AYP: Read It and Weep!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finally, the state has put out the info on whether schools made Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind. Here’s the ajc’s handy tool, courtesy of database editor David Milliron.
As usual it is a grand and glorious mixed bag. Sutton Middle School in Buckhead did not make it because of its Latino students, but King Middle School in Grant Park, where 47 percent of eighth-graders failed math, made AYP. (About a quarter of Sutton Middle School’s eighth-graders failed math.)
AYP matters to you if you are zoned for a school that has missed the target two or more years in a row. Your child would be eligible for a transfer and possibly free tutoring.
AYP also matters to you if your school made the cut, because then it could be a receiving school for children from schools that did not make it. (Talk to parents at Tucker Middle, Tucker High and Shamrock Middle about how much fun it is being in this position…)
AYP matters somewhat to all public school parents because all schools try very hard to make it. Some parents say this pushes too much attention and resources down to the weakest students, leaving bright students to twist in the wind.
Here’s a short story. And here’s a link to the reports.
Are you jazzed about AYP? Are you shocked that your school made it or didn’t?
