1. The Arkansas Department of Education’s News Conference on Smart Accountability will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, October 9, 2009. Conference Call-In Number: (616) 347-8200 Access Code:125536# Please remember to mute your telephone and/or your computer microphone until the question and answer portion of the presentation. For Technical Assistance: Kevin Briggs, (501) 683-5945 Gayle Morris (501) 682-4217

3. Smart Accountability Differentiated accountability allows the state to treat schools placed in school improvement under NCLB differently with: New designations that better reflect the degree to which schools are meeting “adequate yearly progress” Interventions that target the indentified schools’ needs

4. Smart Accountability Labels Arkansas’s plan utilizes six overall categories: Achieving Schools Alert Status Schools Targeted Improvement Schools Whole School Improvement Schools Intensive Targeted Improvement Schools Intensive Whole School Improvement Schools State Directed Improvement Schools

5. Label: Achieving Schools These schools meet all standards for Adequate Yearly Progress for this year.

6. Label: Alert For the first year, these schools did not meet all standards for Adequate Yearly Progress.

7. Label: Targeted Improvement Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the annual measurable goal (AMO) for 25 percent or fewer groups and do not miss the AMO for combined population resulting in school improvement years one through three (1-3) will be labeled as in “Targeted Improvement.” TI-1, TI-2 and TI-3 Corrective Action This correlates to School Improvement Years 1, 2 and 3; Year 3 correlates to the corrective action phase under No Child Left Behind.

8. Label: Whole School Improvement Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the AMO for combined population and/or more than 25 percent of groups resulting in school improvement years one through three (1-3) will be labeled as in “Whole School Improvement.” WSI-1, WSI-2 and WSI-3 Corrective Action This correlates to School Improvement Years 1, 2 and 3; Year 3 correlates to the corrective action phase under No Child Left Behind.

9. Label: Targeted Intensive Improvement Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the AMO for 25 percent or fewer groups and do not miss AMO for combined population resulting in school improvement for four (4) or more years will be labeled as in “Targeted Intensive Improvement.” TII-4, TII-5: Restructuring This correlates to School Improvement Years 4 and 5, which was in the restructuring phase under No Child Left Behind.

10. Label: Whole School Intensive Improvement Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy and miss the AMO for combined population and/or more than 25 percent groups resulting in school improvement years four (4) or more years will be labeled as in “Whole School Intensive Improvement.” WSII-4, WSII-5: Restructuring This correlates to School Improvement Years 4 and 5, which was in the restructuring phase under No Child Left Behind.

11. Label: State Directed Schools that do not meet Adequate Yearly Progress in math and/or literacy after TI-5 or WSII-5 will be designated as in “State Directed” status.

12. Available Interventions A complete list of interventions for each category of schools is included in the Smart Accountability Handbook, which is posted on the ADE’s main Web site, http://ArkansasEd.org.

13. SchoolsClassification 498Achieving 176Alert 140Targeted Improvement Schools 113Whole School Improvement Schools 32Targeted Intensive Improvement Schools 64Whole School Intensive Improvement Schools 58State Directed Schools 2009 Adequately Yearly Progress Report

14. DistrictsClassification 213Meets Standards 16Alert 8District Improvement Year 1 13District Improvement Year 2 3District Improvement Year 3 1District Improvement Year 4 District Summary

15. News Release AYP Primer District and School Reports PowerPoint Recording of Presentation Arkansas Department of Education Web Site http://ArkansasEd.org