and even schedules in order to meet AYP targets. Under the current law, schools must test students in reading and mathematics at least once a year in grades 3-8, and once in high school.

To earn AYP, schools must reach specific targets including performance on the state assessment test or show improvement from the year before. The benchmarks fall under the federal requirements of ...

Just weeks before states release their lists of schools that have not met “adequate yearly progress” targets under the main federal K-12 law, many states are still negotiating with federal ...

The AYP targets require schools to meet pass rates on math and English tests. The tests are taken by students in grades 3-8 and in high school. The pass rates are steadily increasing and this year ...

The state’s 2004-05 AYP targets are: 54 percent of students proficient or above in reading. 45 percent of students proficient or above in math. 95 percent student participation in the PSSA.

In Castillo’s words, the results are “quite discouraging.” Only 54 percent of Oregon schools met the federal AYP targets — down from 71 percent last year. “Clearly, we are not where we ...

Why the spike? To keep schools on track for that 100-percent proficiency goal, the Department of Education raised AYP test-score targets by an average of 10 percent. So let's think about what's ...

The preliminary results include the AYP targets for math participation and proficiency and reading participation. Education officials blamed the low achievement rate on a 12 percentage point ...

If one or more schools in a district do not make AYP, the entire district does not make AYPSummit School District met 77 (93 percent) of its 83 targets in 2004. Because the district did not meet ...

Four out of seven schools – Grandview, Skyview, Windsor Charter Academy and Severance Middle School – met the Adequate Yearly Progress targets, while Mountain View, Windsor Middle School and Windsor ...