Administration Eyes New Accountability Formula for Schools
The Obama administration is developing a new formula to hold schools accountable for student performance as it works to revise the eight-year-old No Child Left Behind law, the Washington Post reports.
Under the law, schools are rated on how many of their students pass state reading and math tests. Target pass rates rise each year toward a standard of universal proficiency by 2014 for all groups — a goal experts have long called utopian.
The twin concepts of “adequate yearly progress,” known as AYP, and the 2014 target for eliminating achievement gaps by race, ethnicity and family income are the bedrock of the public school accountability system. Now those concepts are being reconsidered as the administration works with Congress to draft a new law, said Peter Cunningham, an assistant education secretary.
The New York Times reports that the administration will call for elimination of the 2014 deadline as part of a broad overhaul of the law enacted under President George W. Bush.
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