WASL scores are plateauing, Burke says. About 60 percent of schools aren’t making “adequate” progress

Alan Burke with the state schools superintendent’s office is now up. He says the WASL scores are flatlining. “Plateauing or flat,” is how he described scores.

But, he said, big changes are coming to math and other sections.

“We have a number of schools that will be ‘Inadequate Yearly Progress’ in school improvement,” he said: “All 50 states have this requirement but of course the standards are different in every state,” Burke said. Federal law requires that schools break students into 9 different groups, then each group is measured in four ways. “Schools, when you talk about subjects and groups, there’s 37 categories of not making it and a school missing one category means the school does not make it,” he said.

“AYP,” which was mentioned earlier, is “Adequate Yearly Progress.” It’s the No Child Left Behind metric for whether a school is doing a sufficient job.

Burke said 30 percent of schools made Adequate Yearly Progress. “There’ll be many, many more schools sending out AYP letters on choice within the next few weeks,” he said: When a school doesn’t make “Adequate Yearly Progress,” they must send out a letter to parents telling them they have a right to send their students to another school.

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