Adequate Yearly Progress
Adequate Yearly Progress is one of several ways we keep track of our students’ development throughout the school year. As educators, our job is to figure out each child’s strengths and needs to help them achieve and be successful. For our special education students, that can be a real challenge. That’s because every child’s disability is different. Sometimes a special education student can have all of the information in his or her head but cannot write it or show that they know the answer. A special education teacher’s job is to find ways to support these students, teach them and help them showcase what they know.
Over the past several years, our special education/ disabled student test scores have increased each year. Much of those gains can be credited to improved curriculum, teacher training and year-round support. The district recently transitioned to a research-based curriculum for special education students that is better aligned with general education standards and we are making proven gains. Rather than solely offering remediation, the curriculum helps teachers diagnose specific concerns and allows interventions for them to teach subjects in different ways. Students are grasping concepts and hanging on to them each year. Not only is this giving us better ways to help students pass classes, we’re also working to prepare them for college.
It’s hard work, but our investments are paying off. It’s exciting to see the changes we’re making are helping our special education students show continued progress in their reading and math skills.
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Sincerely,
Carol Comeau, Superintendent |
 
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No Child Left Behind
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) 2008
Schools meet 93 percent of performance targets
2007-08 Results
Supplemental Educational Services (SES) »
A student who qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch and who attends an ASD Title I school that has not made Adequate Yearly Progress for two or more years may apply for the following free extra academic help. |
Highlights of 2007-08 AYP Results (PDF)
Summary of AYP
Federal requirements for accountability in the No Child
Left Behind (NCLB) legislation mandate that all students
in grades 3 through 10 score proficient for language arts
and mathematics by 2014. Districts and schools in Alaska
must demonstrate “adequate yearly progress” (AYP)
toward meeting that goal. »
AYP is reported as part of No Child Left Behind, a
national education law. Alaska’s AYP calculations are
based on certain factors:
- Percentage of students meeting or exceeding state
standards in language arts and math
- Testing participation rate – all schools, districts and
student groups must have at least 95 percent of their
students take the designated state tests
- Schools must also make the “other academic indicator”
of average daily attendance or graduation rate
Proficiency in language arts and math is determined by
performance on Alaska Standards Based Assessment
(grades 3 – 10).
AYP is determined for:
- The Anchorage School District as a whole
- Each individual school
- Student groups at each school within the
district, if the group is large enough to be
numerically significant
-
African American
- Alaska Native
& American Indian
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Asian
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Caucasian
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Hispanic
- Multi-Ethnic
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Economically disadvantaged
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Students with disabilities
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Limited English Proficient (LEP)
- Schools that do not make AYP must notify
parents and
develop a school improvement plan
- Extra services are offered to students if a Title I school
continues in school improvement status for a second
year
- Schools receiving Title I funds that do not make AYP
three years in a row must offer students the choice to
transfer to another school with paid transportation
- The district must take corrective action in Title I
schools not making AYP for four years in a row.
Corrective action could include changes in curriculum
or school structure.
- Non-Title I schools that do not make AYP two years
in a row continue to implement school improvement
plan
- A school is eligible to exit school improvement status
if it makes AYP two years in a row
District and school AYP designation information has been provided by the Anchorage School District Department of Assessment and Evaluation. Additional information about No Child
Left Behind (NCLB) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is
available on the federal Web site at www.nclb.gov,
on the state’s Web site at www.eed.state.ak.us,
and here on the district’s Web site.
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