Name of the Organization : Department of Education
Type of Facility : NCLB Report Card
Country : United States Virgin Islands
Website : https://www.vide.vi/
NCLB Report Card :
The report card, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act, charts a course designed to reach all students and to improve academic achievement by using best practices and providing educators, parents, policymakers and the public, with data about student and school performance.
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We will continue to place great emphasis on the mastery of reading and mathematics skills as well as competency in the area of science. We will also continue to ensure that assessments measure student progress regardless of race, ethnic group, disability, language, gender or family income and emphasize the meaningful use of disaggregated data of student performance for the purpose of improving instruction. As we look at the challenges ahead, we will work towards improving and assisting more students in attaining proficiency and also place emphasis on providing opportunities for teachers to be highly qualified.
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) :
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires participating states to demonstrate adequate yearly progress at the state, district and student levels for all students as well as disaggregated student subgroups. These requirements have been a challenge to states to improve on the format of collection, as well as the overall quality and reporting of data.
No Child Left Behind requires all government-run schools receiving federal funding to administer a state-wide standardized test (all students take the same test under the same conditions) annually to all students.The students’ scores are used to determine whether the school has taught the students well. Schools which receive Title I funding through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 must make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)in test scores (e.g. each year, its fifth graders must do better on standardized tests than the previous year’s fifth graders).
If the school’s results are repeatedly poor, then a series of steps are taken to improve the school. Schools that miss AYP for a second consecutive year are publicly labeled as being’in need of improvement’ and are required to develop a two-year improvement plan for the subject that the school is not teaching well. Students are given the option to transfer to a better school within the school district, if any exists.
Missing AYP in the third year forcesthe school to offer free tutoring and other supplemental education services to struggling students. If a school misses its AYP target for a fourth consecutive year, the school is labeled as requiring ‘corrective action,’ which might involve actions like the wholesale replacement of staff, introduction of a new curriculum, or extending the amount of time students spend in class.
The fifth year of failure results in planning to restructure the entire school;the plan is implemented if the school fails to hit its AYP targets for the sixth year in a row. Common options includeclosing the school, turning the school into a charter school, hiring a private company to run the school, or asking thestate office of education to directly run the school.
The act requires states to provide ‘highly qualified’ teachers to all students. Each state sets its own standards forwhat counts as ‘highly qualified’. Similarly, the act requires states to set ‘one high, challenging standard’ for itsstudents. Each state decides for itself what counts as ‘one high, challenging standard’, but the curriculum standardsmust be applied to all students, rather than having different standards for students in different cities or other parts of the state
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