NCLB/Ed YES!

Report Card

1/31/2004 School Report cards are posted at: http://ayp.mde.state.mi.us/ayp/

1/29/2004: According to the State Department this morning, districts will be able to preview the report card that will be released to the media at 12 p.m. today. The public release is scheduled for 5 p.m. this afternoon.

Report Card Appeals: 1/4/2004
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Academic Officer, MDE, just sent out information on the deadline for support data for report card appeals:

This memo is intended for those districts and schools which have filed an appeal of their preliminary report cards and from which MDE has requested additional information or data in order to process their appeal.

Michigan ASCD
1001 Centennial Way
Lansing, MI 48917
(517) 327-9259

• ALL STUDENTS WILL SUCCEED is the philosophy driving the latest initiatives in education, which includes the schools throughout Shiawassee County. Education YES! is Michigan’s new accreditation system. It intends to provide a comprehensive picture of students’ academic achievement over time, as well as a snapshot of each school’s efforts to improve student and school performance. This new system complies with the federal No Child Left Behind legislation that each state have a single school accountability system that addresses all public schools in the state and includes the status of each school toward their goal of 100% student proficiency by 2014.
• In Michigan, schools will receive common letter grades annually. Schools that are labeled “A”, “B”, “C”, or D-Alert” will be accredited. (D-Alert schools are accredited conditionally). Schools receiving an “F” summary grade will be unaccredited. Shiawassee County districts anticipate all schools will be accredited under the new system.
• Data for the Michigan report cards are collected from three primary sources:
  ? MEAP scores count as 67 percent of the total composite score. A school’s status (weighted percent proficient in the building based on a three-year history) and change (calculated using up to five years comparable data to determine if a building’ student achievement is improving at a rate fast enough to attain the goal of 100% of students being proficient within 12 years) are the two academic performance areas on the report card.
  ? Michigan school districts self report their status on eleven performance indicators. The indicators measure a school’s efforts in areas such as family participation, continuous improvement, professional development, extending learning opportunities, performance management systems, and student attendance. This grade counts as 33 percent of the total composite grade.
  ? The three category grades will be added to result in a school’s overall composite grade.
  ? The Department of Education Adequate Yearly Progress calculations, as required by the federal government, will serve as a filter for adjustment. Schools achieving AYP status will receive at least a D/Alert or higher. Schools not achieving AYP will receive a B or lower composite grade.
• NCLB requires states to set target goals for AYP based on 2001-2002 student achievement
  data. States are required to “raise the bar” for AYP each year to meet the NCLB goal of having all students, including nine different subgroups of students, proficient in reading and math by 2013-2014 school year. All students are expected to participate in testing; therefore, participation rate is one factor in AYP. In Michigan, the MEAP test serves as the basis for calculating AYP. Attendance and graduation rates are also factors.
• Under NCLB not only the school as a whole, but all subgroups in a school, must meet the
  target goals. If even one group does not meet the AYP goals, the school will not make AYP. Schools receiving federal funding could face sanctions under NCLB if the school does not make AYP for two or more years in a row.
• In Michigan, school report cards are meant to serve as a tool that teachers, administrator,
  parents, business leaders, labor, and community members can use to help gauge school quality and to identify where improvement is needed. Everyone – from the state, to the Shiawassee RESD, to the Shiawassee County school districts, is working hard to assure that no child is left behind in Shiawassee County.
  

Shiawassee Regional Education Service District
1025 N. Shiawassee Street • Corunna, MI 48817
Phone: (989) 743-3471 • FAX (989) 743-6477

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