1.  Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

2. About AYP  Initiated by NCLB  Student performance and participation rates on ISTEP+ in English/language arts and mathematics  Student attendance rates for K-8 and graduation rates in high school  Must make AYP for overall student population and demographic group with 30+ students  AKA subgroup  Every subgroup must make AYP for school to make AYP

3. Goal of AYP  All students achieve proficiency (100%) in English/language arts and mathematics by 2014

4. Ways to make AYP  Meet all performance, and attendance/graduation targets for entire student population  Including each subgroup  Reduce amount of students not making targets by 10% and meet attendance/graduation targets  AKA Safe Harbor

5. What is Safe Harbor?  Second way schools can make AYP if not all performance and participation targets have been met  Reduce percentage of students not making AYP by 10% from year before  School meets the “Other Indicator” for any student group  Attendance/graduation rate of 95% or higher

6. Consequences  Only for schools that CONSISTENTLY do not make AYP and participate in Title I  Schools with high amounts of students from low-income families  2 years of not making AYP in a subject, school enters improvement status  Series of interventions more extensive each year Title I school doesn’t make AYP

7. Improvement Status  Corrective Action  Replace school staff, new curriculum, decrease management authority, outside expert to advise/manage school, extend school day or year, or structure school’s internal organization  Restructuring  Reopen as charter school, replace all or some staff, have private management to operate school, or state takeover of school

8. Leaving Improvement Status  Schools must make AYP in subject for 2 consecutive years

9. Some Data (2011)  Total Indiana Schools: 1793  Total Schools not making AYP: 879 (49%)  Muncie Central High School  Never made AYP  West View Elementary  Made AYP every year since 2003  Frankfort Senior High School  Did not make AYP in 2011  18 out of 31 schools in Delaware County made AYP in 2011

10. Sources  www2.ed.gov/nclb/accountability/ayp/edpicks.jhtml  www.ncpie.org/nclbaction/ayp.html