Today’s challenges
Making “Adequate Yearly Progress” (AYP)
- Under NCLB, all school districts and schools expected to make Adequate Yearly Progress
- Data is disaggregated to show average performance of various groups
- Special education students - Ethnic minorities
- Limited-English proficient students - Children of poverty
- If any sub-groups fails, the entire school and the school system fails
- NCLB wants to expand testing to high school level