Wednesday, September 26, 2012
District officials said many test results have stabilized over the past year.
Only 12 of the 28 eligible schools in Plainfield School District 202 made adequate yearly progress as defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act this year, which is twice as many as last year when only six of the 28 schools made AYP. In order to make adequate yearly progress, at least 85 percent of students in all subgroups had to meet or exceed state standards in the Illinois Standard Achievement Test (ISAT), which is given to third- through eighth-graders and the Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE), which is given to 11th graders. Each year, the benchmark increases by 7.5 percent so that by 2014, 100 percent of students are expected to meet or exceed state standards. In reading, about 81 percent of District 202 students met or …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Under No Child Left Behind, campuses that don’t make adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years must give parents the option of sending students to higher-performing schools.
Six Plainfield District 202 schools — five elementary schools and one middle school — were slapped with the “in need of improvement” label for not hitting a benchmark set by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. Under NCLB, districts must give parents the option of sending their students to higher-performing schools when a campus fails to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) on state tests for two years in a row. Under the law, AYP is defined as an annual improvement of 7.5 percentage points on test scores. In order to make AYP, students in all NCLB subgroups — including low-income, limited English proficient and students with special needs — must have test score increases of 7.5 percentage points. This year, the following campuses were …
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The AYP scores and resulting failure of six schools in the district open up Choice options as well.
When the Fiscal Year 2013 budget was announced with a $5.5 million deficit at the August 13 Oswego District 308 Board of Education meeting, that number was riding on the assumption that there were 17,561 students enrolled in District 308. Superintendent Matthew Wendt announced at the August 27 board meeting that number has now inflated to 17,739 students and that nearly 500 new students have joined the district. District 308 is expecting to see enrollments through August and even potentially past Labor Day. With the increase in students, the district is working to keep classrooms balanced. Wendt said there are highs and lows in class sizes across the district, but in terms of core classes at the junior high level they are trying to keep …
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2:23 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Would have been nice of the school to send me this letter,but seeing I am not the residential parent of a divorced Family W/ Joint Legal Custody in Plainfiled School Dist 202. Dist 202 only sends mailings to The residential parent address. Thank you Plainfield Patch for keeping me informed of my childrens education ;) more ›